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"The two most abundant elements in the universe are hydrogen and stupidity." - unknown

I know that in a slightly different form:

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.
-Albert Einstein

A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on.
Sir Winston Churchill

I love deadlines. I like the whooshing sound they make as they fly by
Author: Douglas Adams

In our school you were searched for guns and knifes on the way in and if you didn't have any, they gave you some.
Author: Emo Philips

I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use-
Galilei Galileo

Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.
- Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong.
- Voltaire

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in times of great moral crisis, maintain their neutrality
- Dante

Frankly, I can't sleep at night for fear that a homosexual might break into my home and redecorate my living room.

"Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become more corrupt and vicious, they have more need of masters."

You live and learn. Or you don't live long.
- Lazarus Long

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not.
- Lazarus Long

There is a hopeful symbolism in the fact that flags will not wave in a vacuum. - Arthur C. Clarke

"The United States should get rid of its militias."
-Joseph Stalin

Corruptisima republica plurimae leges.
[The more corrupt a republic, the more laws.]
-- Tacitus, Annals III 27

Excellent!
Here's one for you:

"The slaves of power mind the cause they have to serve, because their own interest is concerned; but the friends of liberty always sacrifice their cause, which is only the cause of humanity, to their own spleen, vanity, and self-opinion."

- William Hazlitt (1778 - 1830)

Always tell her she is beautiful, especially if she is not. - Lazarus Long

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"Always tell a woman she is beautiful unless she is very,very beautiful or very,very ugly; then praise her on her understanding." --Lord Chesterfield

"If a lady says 'no', she means 'maybe'. If a lady says 'maybe', she means 'yes'. If a lady says 'yes', she's no lady."-- Lord Chesterfield