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“I suggest you go out and buy as many Blues albums as you can”. –John Belushi

“National armies fight nations, royal armies fight their like; the first obey a mob, always demented, and the second a king, generally sane”. –J.F.C. Fuller

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it”. –John Quincy Adams

“I love the freedoms we got in this country. I appreciate your freedom to burn your flag if you want to, but I really appreciate my right to bear arms so I can shoot you if you try to burn mine”. –Johnny Cash

“When all candels be out, all cats be grey”. –John Heywood

“Freedom is the right to be wrong, not the right to do wrong”. –John Diefenbaker

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

“Drumming was the only thing I was ever good at”. –John Bonham

“It ain’t braggin’ if you can back it up”. –Jaco Pastorius

“The people made the Constitution, and the people can unmake it. It is the creature of their own will, and lives only by their will”. –John Marshall

“The law is an ass”. –Charles Dickens

“The first girl you go to bed with is always pretty”. –Walter Matthau

“If we had any nerve at all, if we had any real balls as a society, or whatever you need, whatever quality you need, real character, we would make an effort to really address the wrongs in this society, righteously”. –Jerry Garcia

“I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization”. –J.G. Stedman

“The one thing the blues don’t get is the backing and pushing of TV and radio like a lot of this garbage you hear. They choke stuff down people’s throat so they got no choice but to listen to it”. –John Lee Hooker

“A man who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself”. –John Stuart Mill

“A slighted woman knows no bounds”. –John Vanbrugh

“Health nuts are going to feel stupid someday, lying in hospitals dying of nothing”. –Redd Foxx

“We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-big government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us holds these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion”. –Michael Crichton

“All political parties die at last of swallowing their own lies”. –John Arbuthnot

“You know how advice is. You only want it if it agrees with what you wanted to do anyway”. –John Steinbeck

“I think we’re being run by maniacs for maniacal ends, and I think I’m liable to be put away as insane for expressing that. That’s what’s insane about it”. –John Lennon

“None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but license”. –John Milton

“I’ll probably die by the time I reach 25, but I’ll have lived the way I wanted to”. –Sid Vicious

“A competent leader can get efficient service from poor troops, while on the contrary an incapable leader can demoralize the best of troops”. –John J. Pershing

“People who cannot find time for recreation are obliged sooner or later to find time for illness”. –John Wanamaker

“Friends will get you killed”. –John Holmes

“Political correctness is tyranny with manners”. –Charlton Heston

“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams”. –John Barrymore

“Death is nothing else but a change of a short and temporary for an unalterable and eternal condition”. –John Pearson

“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced – Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it”. — John Keats

“Life is tough, but it’s tougher when you’re stupid”. –John Wayne

“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war, or corruption, or both”. –John F. Kennedy

“I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels”. –John Calvin

“Long run is a misleading guide to current affairs. In the long run, we are all dead”. –John Maynard Keynes

“Democracy, while it lasts, is more bloody than either aristocracy or monarchy. Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There is never a democracy that did not commit suicide”. –John Adams

“Charity is injurious, unless it helps the recipient to become independent of it”. –John D. Rockefeller