[Still Thinking]

"They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither lberty nor safety." -- Benjamin Franklin, 1759

[OWK]

Men rarely (if ever) manage to dream up a god superior to themselves. Most gods have the manners and morals of a spoiled child.
--Lazarus Long

[FAB]

One that I have alwyas liked.....
IF IT IS TO BE,
IT IS UP TO ME

[OWK]

Be wary of strong drink. It can make you shoot at tax collectors....and miss.
--Lazarus Long

[OWK]

Political tags -- such as royalist, communist, democrat, populist, fascist, liberal, conservative, and so forth -- are never basic criteria. The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire. The former are idealists acting from highest motives for the greatest good of the greatest number. The latter are surly curmudgeons, suspicious and lacking in altruism. But they are more comfortable neighbors than the other sort.
-- Lazarus Long

[yarddog]

"For when the one great scorer comes, to write against your name, He writes, not that you won or lost, but how you played the game."--- Grantland Rice.

[OWK]

A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain.
-- Lazarus Long

[AmusedBystander]

"Lord, the money we do spend on Government and it's not one bit better than the government we got for one third the money twenty years ago."

Will Rogers

[OWK]

A committee is a lifeform with six or more legs and no brain.
-- Lazarus Long

[Rube23]

Vince Lombardi Not sure exactly what is was, but to the effect of....It's not how many times you get knocked down that counts, but how many times you get back up.

[GWfan]

"Not everything in life is going to be fun Mary, that's why they call it work." --My Dad circa 1982

[Revolting cat!]

"Forget it Marge, it's Chinatown!" -- Homer Simpson.

[Solson]

"The art of diplomacy is saying 'Nice Doggie' until you can find a big rock." - Will Rogers.

[GallopingGhost]

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[cuz_it_aint_their_money]

"I believe the money I make belongs to me and my family, not some mid-level governmental functionary with a bad comb-over who wants to give it away to crack addicts squeezing out babies."
- Could have been Ted Nugent, or Robin Williams, or any number of people who want to lay claim to this gem.
Who originated it is un-important. What is important is the quote itself.

[IoCaster]

"That to live by one man’s will became the cause of all men’s misery." - Richard Hooker

[QuestionBureaucracy]

"When Dr. Johnson defined patriotism as the last refuge of a scoundrel, he ignored the enormous possibilities of the word reform."

Senator Roscoe Conkling

[LibertyGirl77]

My current fave:

"Government big enough to give to the people everything they want is powerful enough to take from the people everything they have."

Unfortunately, I don't know who first said it.

[brewcrew]

Here are a few of my favorites:

The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.

Bertrand Barère de Vieuzac

It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the punishment of his guilt.

John Philpot Curran

A viler evil than to murder a man, is to sell him suicide as an act of virtue. A viler evil than to throw a man into a sacrificial furnace, is to demand that he leap in, of his own will, and that he build the furnace, besides.

Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged

Life is tough. It's tougher if you're stupid.

John Wayne

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Woody Guthrie

And finally,

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, is the destruction of the truth.

William Jefferson Clinton

[beckett]

Here's two that you may find appropriate for the workplace:

The free market is ugly and stupid, like going to the mall; the unfree market is just as ugly and just as stupid, except there's nothing in the mall and if you don't go there they shoot you.

PJ O'Rourke

There goes another beautiful theory about to be murdered by a brutal gang of facts.

La Rochefoucauld