Bob Keeshan

“The responsibility of parents is to raise children who do not need parents”. –Bob Keeshan

Isabel Paterson

“The humanitarian in theory is the terrorist in action”. –Isabel Paterson

Edith Wharton

“True originality consists not in a new manner, but in a new vision”. –Edith Wharton

Louis Nizer

“I know of no higher fortitude than stubbornness in the face of overwhelming odds”. –Louis Nizer

Haim Ginott

“Teachers are expected to reach unattainable goals with inadequate tools. The miracle is that at times they accomplish this impossible task”. –Haim Ginott

Louis Agassiz

“The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world”. –Louis Agassiz

James Thurber

“There is no safety in numbers, or in anything else”. –James Thurber

Revilo P. Oliver

“If our squawking pacifists were rational, they would perceive that war can only be ended by abolishing the several species of mammals called human; our spacecraft have shown us that Mars and Venus are perfectly warless worlds”. –Revilo P. Oliver

Henry Steele Commager

“The Bill of Rights was not written to protect governments from trouble. It was written precisely to give the people the constitutional means to cause trouble for governments they no longer trusted”. –Henry Steele Commager

Linus Pauling

“If you want to have good ideas you must have many ideas. Most of them will be wrong, and what you have to learn is which ones to throw away”. –Linus Pauling

William Saroyan

“I care so much about everything that I care about nothing”. –William Saroyan

Meir Kahane

“One of the great problems with Americans is that – being a decent people – they assume that everyone else is equally decent”. –Meir Kahane

William Arthur Ward

“The pessimist complains about the wind; the optimist expects it to change; the realist adjusts the sails”. –William Arthur Ward

John Updike

“Like water, blood must run or grow scum”. –John Updike

Theodore Dreiser

“If I were to personally define religion, I would say that it is a bandage that man has invented to protect a soul made bloody by circumstance”. –Theodore Dreiser

Julian Jaynes

“What is the meaning of life? This question has no answer except in the history of how it came to be asked. There is no answer because words have meaning, not life or persons or the universe itself”. –Julian Jaynes

Nathaniel Hawthorne

“Long, long may it be, ere he comes again! His hour is one of darkness, and adversity, and peril”. –Nathaniel Hawthorne

Jonas Salk

“Neither wisdom nor good will is now dominant. Hope lies in dreams, in imagination and in the courage of those who dare to make dreams into reality”. –Jonas Salk

Carroll Quigley

“We have now done what the Romans did when they started to commit suicide. We have shifted from an army of citizens to an army of mercenaries”. –Carroll Quigley

Bill Mauldin

“Certainly none of the advances made in civilization has been due to counterrevolutionaries and advocates of the status quo”. –Bill Mauldin

Charlton Ogburn

“Circumstances are seldom right… You must always do with less than you need in a situation vastly different from what you would have chosen as appropriate for your special endowments”. –Charlton Ogburn

Walter Lippmann

“A State is absolute in the sense which I have in mind when it claims the right to a monopoly of all the force within the community, to make war, to make peace, to conscript life, to tax, to establish and dis-establish property, to define crime, to punish disobedience, to control education, to supervise the family, to regulate habits, and to censor opinions. The modern State claims all of these powers, and, in the matter of theory, there is no real difference in the size of the claim between communists, fascists, and democrats”. –Walter Lippmann

Jack Dempsey

“A champion is someone who gets up when he can’t”. –Jack Dempsey

Paul Harvey

“In times like these, it’s helpful to remember that there have always been times like these”. –Paul Harvey

Roger Zelazny

“The universe did not invent justice. Man did. Unfortunately, man must reside in the universe”. –Roger Zelazny

Oliver Herford

“Many are called but few get up”. –Oliver Herford

Jack London

“I would rather that my spark should burn out in a brilliant blaze than it should be stifled by dry-rot… The proper function of man is to live, not to exist. I shall not waste my days in trying to prolong them. I shall use my time”. –Jack London

Helen Keller

“Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow man. It then appears that we are among the privileged”. –Helen Keller

Robert A. Heinlein

“Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often confuses one for the other, or assumes the greater the love, the greater the jealousy. In fact they are almost incompatible; both at once produce unbearable turmoil”. –Robert A. Heinlein

William F. Buckley

“Liberals claim to want to give a hearing to other views, but then are shocked and offended to discover that there are other views”. –William F. Buckley

Peter Drucker

“The best way to predict the future is to create it”. –Peter Drucker

Mark Twain

“In the beginning of a change the patriot is a scarce man, and brave, and hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot”. –Mark Twain

J.D. Salinger

“The religious life, and all the agony that goes with it, is just something God sics on people who have the gall to accuse Him of having created an ugly world”. –J.D. Salinger

Washington Irving

“Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above them”. –Washington Irving