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“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

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

“God has given to man no sharper spur to victory than contempt for death”. –Hannibal

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up”. –Babe Ruth

“Democracy is, by the nature of it, a self-canceling business; and it gives in the long run a net result of zero”. –Thomas Carlyle

“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

“I have known no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him”. –Max Beerbohm

“I knew, as everyone knows, that the easiest way to attract a crowd is to let it be known that at a given time and a given place some one is going to attempt something that in the event of failure will mean sudden death”. –Harry Houdini

“A doctor gave a man six months to live. The man couldn’t pay his bill, so he gave him another six months”. –Henny Youngman

“Everything must justify its existence before the judgement of Reason, or give up existence”. –Friedrich Engels

“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off”. –Jack Paar

“Science does not have a moral dimension. It is like a knife. If you give it to a surgeon or a murderer, each will use it differently”. –Wernher von Braun

“The winds give me Enough fallen leaves To make a fire”. –Ryokan

“When a man gives his opinion, he’s a man. When a woman gives her opinion, she’s a bitch”. –Bette Davis

“We don’t give our criminals much punishment, but we sure give them a lot of publicity”. –Will Rogers

“Give me a woman who really loves beer and I will conquer the world”. –Kaiser Wilhelm II