"The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is not 'what should be', there is only what is." - Lenny Bruce
"Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth." - JFK
"Style is knowing who you are, what you want to say and not giving a damn." - Gore Vidal
"Do not fear when your enemies criticize you. Beware when they applaud." - Vo Dong Giand
"Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves." - Gene Fowler
"The world is absolutely out of control and is not going to be saved by reason or unreason." - Robert Lowell
"Somewhere, something incredible happened in history - the wrong guys won." - Norman Mailer
"Treason never doth prosper ; what's the reason? why if it prosper, no one dare call it treason." - John Harrington
"Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Einstein
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent." - Eleanor Roosevelt
"Capitalism gives us all of us a great opportunity if we seize it with both hands and hang on to it." - Al Capone
"Whoever said money can't buy happiness isn't shopping in the right places. - Nancy Reagan
"It will be a great day when our schools get all the money they need and the Air Force has to hold a bake sale to buy a bomber." - An American doctor viewing a bombed-out village in El Salvador
"To profess principles but not be prepared to back them is to be without priciples." - Mary J. Berg
"A fellow who is always declaring he is no fool usually has his suspicions." - Wilson Mizmer
"People aren't really poor until they start using water on their corn flakes." - Nancy Reagan
"When men are brought face to face with their opponents, forced to listen and learn and mend their ideas, they cease to be children and savages and begin to live like civilized men. Then only is freedom a reality, when men may vote their opinions because they must examine their opinions." - Walter Lippman (1889-1974), The Indispensible Opposition, 1939
"The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it representative of a whole class." - Walter Lippman, Public Opinion, 1929
"This is one of the paradoxes of the democratic movement - that it loves a crowd and fears the individuals who compose it - that the religion of humanity should have no faith in human beings." - Walter Lippman, A Preface To Politics, 1914
"We should have a great many fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for the things themselves." - John Locke (1632-1704), An Essay Concerning Human Understanding, 1690
"You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free." - Clarence Darrow
"If it is a despot you would dethrone, see first that his throne erected within you is destroyed." - Kahlil Gibran, 1923
"What is objectionable, what is dangerous about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents." - Robert Kennedy
"When you resign yourself to fate, your resignation is instantly accepted." -Paul Wilson
"Youth looks ahead. Old age looks back. Middle age looks worried." - Unknown
"Facts are ventriloquist's dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere they say nothing or talk nonsense." - Aldous Huxley
"Don't ever tell anybody anything. If you do, you start missing everybody." -Holden Caulfield, The Catcher in the Rye