[Joe Brower]

I have many favorites, but this quote in particular is one that no sensible person can argue with:

"The penalty good men pay for indifference to public affairs, is to be ruled by evil men." -- Plato

[wizr]

"You can fool some of the people all of the time....."

[Lumberjack]

In the beginning there was nothing...

And God said, "Let there be light!"

And there was still nothing....

BUT

you could see it!

[abandon]

I would never want to belong to an organization that would have someone like me as a member. --- Woody Allen

[mattdono]

I would go with:

"I know what you're thinking. Did he fire six shots or only five? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is a .44 Magnum, the most powerful handgun in the world, and would blow your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: Do I feel lucky? Well, do ya punk?"
- Clint Eastwood as Harry Callahan (Dirty Harry, 1971)

Of course, you could go with the shortened version, "Well, do ya punk?"

I am not really sure how that will go over with your fellow employees, but I think it would be funny.

[Jay W]

"A man's got to know his limitations." -- Inspector Harry Callahan.

[Xenalyte]

Couple this (my thanks to Tarantino, Sam Jackson and the Bible) with your pro-2A statement, and your new co-workers will be quite polite, if a bit edgy around you.

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the inequities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother's keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee."

Or you could just click here.

[SpookBrat]

"Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence."

Albert Einstein

[The G Man]

"If you're not a liberal by the time you're 20, you have no heart. If you're not a conservative by the time you're 30, you have no brain."
- Winston Churchill

[tacticalogic]

"I will take your problems into my head, and into my hands, but I will not take them into my stomach."

-Euclid

[Hegewisch Dupa]

From the right woman, nothing sounds as sweet as "yes"

[Tuscaloosa Goldfinch]

"He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose." Jim Elliott, martyr. (Ecuador.)

[Bikers4Bush]

"P.S. When asked; "what you want your co-workers to know about you", I penned a very pro-Second Amendment statement."

My guess is that you just reduced the traffic past your office or cube by 95%. Especially if you are deemed to be having a bad day.

[BlueLancer]

Orchides Forum Trahite
Cordes Et Mentes Veniant

(Grab them by the balls
And their hearts and minds will follow)
Courtesy of G. Gordon Liddy

[1Old Pro]

“That government is best which governs the least, because its people discipline themselves.”
Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)

[Alabama_Wild_Man]

" Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.... We've been tempted to believe that society has become too complex to be managed by self-rule, that government by an elite group is superior to government for, by, and of the people. Well, if no one among us is capable of government himself, then who among us has the capacity to govern someone else? All of us together, in and out of government, must bear the burden. The solutions we seek must be equitable, with no one group singled out to pay a higher price..."

~~ Ronald Reagan

[Heartlander]

You can't go wrong with any Jack Handey quote.

[boris]

I have many. Here's a sampling:

"The Earth is the Cradle of the Mind, but you cannot stay in the cradle forever." -- Konstantin Tsiolkovsky

"Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing." -- Werner Von Braun

"Problems worthy of attack
Prove their worth by hitting back."--Piet Hein

"The Heights by great men reached and kept
Were not attained by sudden flight;
But they, while their companions slept,
Were toiling upward in the night."
--Wordsworth (I think)

"The quest of the Inner Ring will break your hearts unless you break it. But if you break it, a surprising result will follow. If in your working hours you make the work your end, you will presently find yourself all unawares inside the only circle in your profession that really matters. You will be one of the sound craftsmen, and other sound craftsmen will know it.

"This group of craftsmen will by no means coincide with the Inner Ring or the Important People or the People in the Know. It will not shape that professional policy or work up that professional influence which fights for the profession as a whole against the public: nor will it lead to those periodic scandals and crises which the Inner Ring produces. But it will do those things which that profession exists to do and will in the long run be responsible for all the respect which that profession in fact enjoys and which the speeches and advertisements cannot maintain."

--C.S. LEWIS
Oration at University of London, 1944
THE INNER RING

"All things, by immortal power,
Near or far, hiddenly to each other linked are;
That thou canst not touch a flower
Without troubling a star."
--Francis Thompson, The Mistress of Vision

--Boris

[wny]

"Fat, drunk and stupid is no way to go through life son."

Dean Vernon Wormer

[Durus]

"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquillity of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace. We seek not your counsel, nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." Samuel Adams