Some of my favorites collected over the years.
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing. - Sir Edmund Burke
Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters. - Daniel Webster
Always remember, your weapon was manufactured by the lowest bidder. - From Murphys Laws of Combat
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety --by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H. L. Mencken
"It is the soldier, not the reporter, Who has given us freedom of the press. It is the soldier, not the poet, Who has given us freedom of speech. It is the soldier, not the campus organizer, Who has given us the freedom to demonstrate. It is the soldier, Who salutes the flag, Who serves beneath the flag, and whose coffin is draped by the flag, Who allows the protester to burn the flag." - Father Denis Edward O'Brien, USMC
"Beware the tyrant, for he comes first as a protector." - Lord Byron
"Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch.
Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote." - Benjamin Franklin
Islam is a highly aggressive inculcated obsessive delusional psychosis that has been on a run amok submit-or-be-killed crusade on and off for over a thousand years. It is a delusional system that is defended with an indignation subjectively justifying violence against the non-delusional world. - Robert L. Kocher
"The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws." - Tacitus
"There is a difference between responsible criticism that aims for success and defeatism that refuses to acknowledge anything but failure. Hindsight alone is not wisdom and second-guessing is not a strategy" - George W. Bush
"Good judgment comes from experience, and a lot of that comes from bad judgment." Will Rogers
