Quotes

Live your life in such a way that when your feet hit the floor in the morning, Satan shudders & says... "Oh shit....she's awake!!"

"...the truth is like poetry and most people hate poetry."

"Neither give cherries to a pig nor advice to a fool."

"Mankind is the missing link between the ape and human being."

"Trouble is, with trouble, it starts out as fun"

"The trouble with drinkin' is it ain't no trouble at all."

"Friends are false; enemies are real."

                --Old Mexican Saying

"Keep a good sharp edge on your knife, son. Keep a good sharp edge on your knife. A good sharp edge is a man's best edge against the unexpected vagaries of life."

"The quickest way to double your money is to fold it in half and put it back in your pocket."

"Excellence isn't a virtue, it's a habit."

"The trend of looking back to the '60s has gotten us nowhere. You've got generations now that don't have anything of their own. They seem to long for identity. Teens are so consumed with the '60s, peace signs and psychedelia. Their own generation is full of young Republicans, and rock 'n' roll is guys in rubber pants and hair spray."

                --(1990)

"When they took the fourth amendment, I was silent because I don't deal drugs. When they took the sixth amendment, I kept quiet because I know I'm innocent. When they took the second amendment, I said nothing  because I don't own a gun. Now they've come for the first amendment, and I can't say anything at all.”

"To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead."

      --US patriot & political philosopher

“…I have sworn upon the altar of God eternal hostility against every form of tyranny known to the mind of man."

"The sword of the law should never fall but on those whose guilt is so apparent as to be pronounced by their friends as well as foes."

"We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a feather bed."

"God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. The people cannot be all, and always, well informed. The part which is wrong will be discontented, in proportion to the importance of the facts they misconceive. If they remain quiet under such misconceptions, it is lethargy, the forerunner of death to the public liberty. ...  

What country before ever existed a century and a half without a rebellion?

And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance?

Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two?

The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure."

“I hope we shall... crush in its birth the aristocracy of our moneyed corporations, which dare already to challenge our government to a trial of strength and to bid defiance to the laws of our country.”

                  --Letter to George Logan. November 12, 1816