Mel Blanc

“That’s all folks”. –Mel Blanc

John Belushi

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

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

George Halas

“Many people flounder about in life because they have no purpose. Before it is possible to achieve anything, an objective must be set”. –George Halas

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

Isaac Parker

“‘Do equal and exact justice’ is my motto, and I have often said to the grand jury, ‘Permit no innocent man to be punished, but let no guilty man escape'”. –Isaac Parker

John Quincy Adams

“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

Jon Postel

“Be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send”. –Jon Postel

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

William Howard Taft

“Substantial progress toward better things can rarely be taken with out developing new evils requiring new remedies”. –William Howard Taft

James Thurber

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

Joseph Schumpeter

“Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest”. –Joseph Schumpeter

Catfish Hunter

“The sun don’t shine on the same dog’s ass all the time”. –Catfish Hunter

Jim Backus

“Many a man owes his success to his first wife, and his second wife to his success”. –Jim Backus

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

Johnny Cash

“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

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

George Steinbrenner

“Winning is the most important thing in my life, after breathing. Breathing first, winning next”. –George Steinbrenner

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

Louis Armstrong

“Making money ain’t nothing exciting to me. You might be able to buy a little better booze than the wino on the corner. But you get sick just like the next cat, and when you die you’re just as graveyard dead as he is”. –Louis Armstrong

William Arthur Ward

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

James Monroe

“The American continents… are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers”. –James Monroe

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

Woodrow Wilson

“I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is controlled by its system of credit. Our system of credit is concentrated in the hands of a few men. We have come to be one of the worst ruled, one of the most completely controlled and dominated governments in the world… no longer a government of free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of small groups of dominant men”. –Woodrow Wilson

Phil Ochs

“One good song with a message can bring a point more deeply to more people than a thousand rallies”. –Phil Ochs

Jaco Pastorius

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

James Naismith

“The invention of basketball was not an accident. It was developed to meet a need. Those boys simply would not play ‘Drop the Handkerchief””. –James Naismith

Samuel Untermyer

“The Jews are the aristocrats of the world”. –Samuel Untermyer

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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

Chester Nimitz

“Of the Marines on Iwo Jima, uncommon valor was a common virtue”. –Chester Nimitz

eden ahbez

“Some white people hate black people, and some white people love black people, some black people hate white people, and some black people love white people. So you see, it’s not an issue of black and white, it’s an issue of Lovers and Haters”. –eden ahbez

William Westmoreland

“When the soldiers came home from Vietnam, there were no parades, no celebrations. So they built the Vietnam Memorial for themselves”. –William Westmoreland

Harold Pinter

“US foreign policy could be defined as follows: kiss my ass or I’ll kick your head in”. –Harold Pinter

Vidkun Quisling

“A Nordic union between Scandinavia and Great Britain, with the adherence of Finland and Holland, and in which Germany and eventually the British Dominions and America might later on be absorbed, would take away the sting of any communist combination and secure European civilization and peace for the foreseeable future”. –Vidkun Quisling

Sam Cooke

“There’s been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long, But now I think I’m able to carry on. It’s been a long, a long time coming, But I know a change is gonna come, oh yes it will”. –Sam Cooke

Sholem Aleichem

“Life is a dream for the wise, a game for the fool, a comedy for the rich, a tragedy for the poor”. –Sholem Aleichem

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

Antonín Dvořák

“I am now satisfied that the future music of this country must be founded upon what are called negro melodies. This must be the real foundation of any serious and original school of composition to be developed in the United States”. –Antonín Dvořák

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

Learned Hand

“For myself it would be most irksome to be ruled by a bevy of Platonic Guardians, even if I knew how to choose them, which I assuredly do not”. –Learned Hand

Bill Mauldin

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

Marvin Gaye

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else”. –Marvin Gaye

Sam Kinison

“The Russians haven’t been to the moon. You know why? Because they’re space pussies… You really want to impress us? Bring us back our FLAG, asshole!” –Sam Kinison

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

Jerry Falwell

“I think Muhammad was a terrorist. I read enough by both Muslims and non-Muslims, that he was a violent man, a man of war”. –Jerry Falwell

August Dvorak

“I’m tired of trying to do something worthwhile for the human race, they simply don’t want to change!” –August Dvorak

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 Erdős

“Television is something the Russians invented to destroy American education”. –Paul Erdős

Zachary Taylor

“For more than half a century, during which kingdoms and empires have fallen, this Union has stood unshaken. The patriots who formed it have long since descended to the grave; yet still it remains, the proudest monument to their memory”. –Zachary Taylor

Curtis Mayfield

“Don’t worry – if there’s a hell below, we all gonna go”. –Curtis Mayfield

Susan B. Anthony

“The men and women of the North are slaveholders, those of the South slaveowners. The guilt rests on the North equally with the South”. –Susan B. Anthony

Eazy-E

“Don’t quote me boy, cause I ain’t said shit”. –Eazy-E

Bradley Nowell

“I think that self-reliance is what makes you happy; not having to worry about anything or not depending on anybody besides yourself”. –Bradley Nowell

George Washington

“Having now finished the work assigned me, I retire from the great theatre of Action; and bidding an Affectionate farewell to this August body under whose orders I have so long acted, I here offer my commission, and take my leave of all the employments of public life”. –George Washington

John Marshall

“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

Frank Sinatra

“If you possess something but you can’t give it away, then you don’t possess it… It possesses you”. –Frank Sinatra

Robert Capa

“In a war, you must hate somebody or love somebody; you must have a position or you cannot stand what goes on”. –Robert Capa

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

Dean Acheson

“No people in history have ever survived who thought they could protect their freedom by making themselves inoffensive to their enemies”. –Dean Acheson

Warren G. Harding

“I have no trouble with my enemies. I can take care of my enemies in a fight. But my friends, my goddamned friends, they’re the ones who keep me walking the floors at night”. –Warren G. Harding

Stonewall Jackson

“The time for war has not yet come, but it will come, and that soon; and when it does come, my advice is to draw the sword and throw away the scabbard”. –Stonewall Jackson

Walter Matthau

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

Alexander Haig

“Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk, does not carry even one American soldier, and is located in a critical region for American national security”. –Alexander Haig

Thomas Francis Meagher

“A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people; but a strong people can alone build up a great nation”. –Thomas Francis Meagher

Alexander Hamilton

“It has been observed that a pure democracy, if it were practicable, would be the most perfect government. Experience has proved that no position is more false than this. The ancient democracies in which the people themselves deliberated never possessed one good feature of government”. –Alexander Hamilton