Aug 30, 2006

Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner. – James Bovard (1994)

Aug 27, 2006

"To argue with a man who has renounced his reason is like giving medicine to the dead"

Robert Green Ingersoll

Aug 25, 2006

What good does it do me, after all, if an ever-watchful authority keeps an eye out to ensure that my pleasures will be tranquil and races ahead of me to ward off all danger, sparing me the need even to think about such things, if that authority, even as it removes the smallest thorns from my path, is also absolute master of my liberty and my life; if it monopolizes vitality and existence to such a degree that when it languishes, everything must also sleep; and when it dies, everything must also perish?

— Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in Americ

Aug 24, 2006

Diplomacy is the art of saying 'Nice doggie' until you can find a rock.

— Will Rogers

Aug 22, 2006

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody to divide it with.

Mark Twain

Aug 21, 2006

The true danger is when Liberty is nibbled away, for expedients. – Edmund Burke (1899)

Aug 20, 2006

"Good breeding consists in concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little we think of the other person." Mark Twain