quotes that mean something to me "the lord's prayer is 66 words, the gettysburg address is 286 words, there are 1,322 words in the declaration of independence, but government regulations on the sale of cabbage total 26,911 words." - national review "if you are not free to choose wrongly and irresponsibly, you are not free at all." - jacob hornberger "to secure peace is to prepare for war" - metallica, don't tread on me "if you obey all the rules, you miss all the fun." - katherine hepburn "if people try to put you down, just walk on by don't turn around, you only have to answer to yourself." - s club 7, bring it all back "life goes on long after the thrill of living is gone." - john mellencamp, jack and diane "it's better to burn out than to fade away" - from kurt cobain's suicide note. "a chicken mcnugget doesn't die any easier than a baby fur seal." - ted nugent "freedom is just another word for nothin' left to lose" - janis joplin, me and bobby mcgee "i'm not gay, although i wish i were, just to piss off homophobes." - kurt cobain, journals "you will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. you will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life." - albert camus "i disapprove of what you say, but i will defend to the death your right to say it." - francois voltaire "we are not retreating - we are advancing in another direction." - general douglas macarthur "i do not feel obliged to believe that the same god who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has indended us to forgo their use." - galileo galilei "we didn't lose the game; we just ran out of time." - vince lombardi "tragedy is when i cut my finger. comedy is when you walk into an open sewer and die." - mel brooks "if you don't like something, change it; if you can't change it, change the way you think about it." - mary engelbriet "if nothing ever changed, there'd be no butterflies." - unknown