Here's one that explains why we should all get out & vote: The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men. - Plato
"What lies behind us and what lies before us are tiny matters, compared to what lies within us." - Ralph Waldo Emerson
When we heard about the hippies, the barely more than boys and girls who decided to try something different . . . we laughed at them. Smug in our certain awareness that . . . communal life must be more difficult even than nuclear family life, which we know, to our very nerve endings, is disastrous. We condemned them, our children, for seeking a different future. We hated them for their flowers, for their love, and for their unmistakeable rejection of every hideous, mistaken compromise that we had made throughout our hollow, money-bitten, frightened, adult lives. - - June Jordan - Old Stories : New Lives
"To the American people, my talk to you is about the best way to avoid another Manhattan," he said. "I tell you: Security is an important element of human life and, free people do not give up their security Oaman Bin Laden
So if a cop pulls you over when driving, and asks can you to walk this straight line, do you just tell him that you don't know if you can walk it but you sure can snort it? - David Crosby
"To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public." --Theodore Roosevelt, 1918