Quotes

"To a gentleman and a scholar... and if the truth be known, sir, a great judge of Irish Whiskey."

"Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."

"May I remind you of the famous dictum of General Tacticus: 'Those who desire war, prepare for war'?"

"When we can't defend our beliefs with words, we resort to violence."

"Show me a man who is trying to save the world and I'll show you a man who has no problems of his own or is willfully ignoring them."

"Many of us would be in no political party at all if we could get someone elected that way."

                    --Libertarian Party Member

“Voting” and “elections” serve the same purpose as the steering wheel on Maggie Simpson’s car seat."

"...that historic document had been crafted which guaranteed for all Russians freedom of conscience (Article 13), freedom of expression (Article14), freedom of assembly (Article 15), and freedom to have any of these rights revoked should they be "utilized to the detriment of the socialist revolution" (Article23)!"

                                    -- Referring to the Russian Constitution written by the Party Congress after the Revolution

"The essence of Fascism is to make laws against everything and then selectively enforce them against your enemies."

IRAN ACCUSED OF NOT PROVING IT IS NOT DOING SOMETHING IT HAS BEEN ACCUSED OF DOING.                      

                       --Headline in The Onion

"In battle, in forest, at the precipice of the mountains, on the dark great sea, in the midst of javelins and arrows, in sleep, in confusion, in the depths of shame, the good deeds a man has done defend him."

             --The Gita

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                    --Sign in Mexican restaurant

"...dumber than taking a five year-old to a strip club (and forgetting to instruct him not to tell Mom)."

"Often wrong, but never in doubt."

"If I wanted to listen to an asshole I'd fart"

"Mutton dressed up like Lamb."

"...I think of him kindly, when I think of him at all."

"... he's a very high-minded humanitarian type who's traveled all around the world to look at poor people, and while the two of them are lounging around one of her gorgeous houses he gets wrought up and says, 'Ellen, Ellen, do you know what it is to be truly hungry:' and she says, 'I'm hungry right now!"

                             --Movie - Leave Her To Heaven

"When the Catholic Church decided that adultery was impossible to stop, it made divorce impossible to obtain"

"History isn't written to reveal the truth. It is written to flatter power and instruct the masses."

There is what really happened. That is lost forever.

There is what is recorded in contemporary chronicles. That is the reality of those who lived through it.

And, there is the history that is taught in schools. That is the history that is acceptable to those in power."

"Only when the last tree has been cut, the last river has been poisoned and the last fish has been caught will the white man realize that money cannot be eaten."

"In the modern economy, most money takes the form of bank deposits. But how those bank deposits are created is often misunderstood: the principal way [money is created] is through commercial banks making loans. Whenever a bank makes a loan, it simultaneously creates a matching deposit in the borrower's bank account, thereby creating new money."

                              — Bank of England ("Money creation in the modern economy")