It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds Samuel Adams

A censor is a man who knows more than he thinks you ought to. Granville Hicks

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. Thomas Paine

Real freedom lies in wildness, not in civilization. Charles Lindbergh

If you haven't forgiven yourself something, how can you forgive others? Delores Huerta

If you are a terror to many, then beware of many Ausonius

The scientific name for an animal that doesn't either run from or fight its enemies is lunch. Michael Friedman

I don't want any yes-men around me. I want everybody to tell me the truth even if it costs them their jobs. Samuel Goldwyn

Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the consistent omissions of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference. Franklin D. Roosevelt

The spirit of liberty is the spirit of Him who, near two thousand years ago, taught mankind that lesson it has never learned, but has never quite forgotten; that there may be a kingdom where the least shall be heard and considered side by side with the greatest. Justice Learned Hand

Too bad that all the people who know how to run the country are busy driving taxicabs and cutting hair. George Burns

All that is gold does not glitter; not all those that wander are lost. J.R.R. Tolkien

Anthropology is the science which tells us that people are the same the whole world over—except when they are different. Nancy Banks-Smith

Perhaps America will one day go fascist democratically, by popular vote. William L. Shirer

A woman’s dress should be like a barbed-wire fence: serving its purpose without obstructing the view. Sophia Loren

Governing today means giving acceptable signs of credibility. It is like advertising and it is the same effect that is achieved—commitment to a scenario. Jean Baudrillard

We have tried to make it clear that the United States is not just an old cow that gives more milk the more it is kicked in the flanks. —Dean Rusk Dean Rusk

Democracy means simply the bludgeoning of the people by the people for the people. Oscar Wilde

The pious ones of Plymouth who, reaching the Rock, first fell upon their own knees and then upon the aborigines. William M. Evarts

But there are advantages to being elected President. The day after I was elected, I had my high school grades classified Top Secret. Ronald Reagan