OK, let's have a "Quotes" thread!

No interests are dearer to men than those which ought to be secured to them by their form of government, and none deserve better of them than those who contribute to the amelioration of that form.– Thomas Jefferson

“If voting changed anything, they'd make it illegal.”
― Emma Goldman

"What I suffered physically was worth what I've accomplished in life. A man who is not courageous enough to take risks will never accomplish anything in life." —Muhammad Ali

An apt tribute to a very great man, cousinlucky

Resolve to serve no more, and you are at once freed. I do not ask that you place hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but simply that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great Colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break in pieces.-Etienne de la Boétie

He didn't run for reelection.  "Politics brings you into contact with all
the people you'd give anything to avoid," he said. "I'm staying home."
		-- Garrison Keillor, "Lake Wobegone Days"

It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man who knows what the law is today can guess what is will be tomorrow.– James Madison

the wisdom of yesterday is the wisdom of today but that oviosly doesn't mean bash

Posted by flywhopper on another thread

"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." Charles Babbage (1791-18

If you've never heard of Charles Babbage : www.cbi.umn.edu/about/babbage.html

We must vigorously re-make the case for free speech. We must recur to its great defenders from ages past and reintroduce their ideas to our fellow Americans. The wisdom of John Milton, John Locke and John Stuart Mill—not to mention that of Americans like George Mason and Justice Louis Brandeis—is as true today as it was in their times. We just have to remember it… we must transmit an understanding of the value of free speech to today’s Americans in order to ensure that it is protected for future generations. And perhaps even more importantly, we need to demonstrate a vigorous commitment to free speech. America’s success depends on whether we continue to embrace this fundamental freedom.-William Ruger

If you believe these elections are not a sham written like a script, I’ll sell you the Golden Gate Bridge. If you believe our wars are not engineered in advance and then sold to us once they’ve decided to go ahead and start them, then I’ll sell you the Statue of Liberty. And I’ll also sell you the Constitution because the United States government is obviously not using it anymore.-Jack Perry

I could quote the guy, but it would be too long of a quote, so here is:
"Corporation, Kill The ; Mike Daisey - Big Ideas ABC TV"
https://youtu.be/MXT0sVy04v8

It is too true, however disgraceful it may be to human nature, that nations in general will make war whenever they have a prospect of getting any thing by it; nay, absolute monarch will often make war when their nations are to get nothing by it, but for purposes and objects merely personal, such as a thirst for military glory, revenge for personal affronts, ambition, or private compacts to aggrandize or support their particular families or partisans. These and a variety of other motives, which affect only the mind of the sovereign, often lead him to engage in wars not sanctioned by justice or the voice and interests of his people.– John Jay

The more we study the more we discover our ignorance.'.. Percy Bysshe Shelley
'Marriage is one long conversation, chequered by disputes.'.. Robert Louis Stevenson
'They say an actor is only as good as his parts. Well my parts have done me pretty well'.. Barbara Windsor (If you've never heard of Barbara Windsor she's a very well endowed lady, if you get my drift, and was in all the 'Carry On' films.)
'Being pregnant is an occupational hazard of being a wife.'.. Queen Victoria
'A room without books is like a body without a soul.'.. GK Chesterton
'Everything government touches turns to crap.'.. Ringo Starr
'Intelligence is the ability to adapt to change.'.. Stephen Hawking

“Americans have been told that their government is keeping them safe by preventing and prosecuting terrorism inside the United States… But take a closer look and you realize that many of these people would never have committed a crime if not for law enforcement encouraging, pressuring, and sometimes paying them to commit terrorist acts.”—Human Rights Watch