A great democracy has got to be progresive or it will soon cease

to be great or a democracy--Teddy Roosevelt

The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use--of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public--Bobby Kennedy

If a man speaks in the forest, and there is no woman there to hear him,
is he still wrong?--Garrison Keillor


Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen--Albert Einstein


Some men see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were
and say why not--Bobby Kennedy


The society based on production is only productive, not creative--Albert Camus


Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans--John Lennon

The government, which was designed for the people, has got into the hands of the bosses and their employers, the special interests. An invisible empire has been set up

above the forms of democracy--Woodrow Wilson


He who fights with monsters might take care lest he thereby become a monster.
And if you gaze for long into an abyss,
the abyss gazes also into you--Friedrich Nietzsche


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--Bobby Kennedy

The Roots of Violence: Wealth without work, Pleasure without conscience, Knowledge without character, Commerce without morality, Science without humanity, Worship without sacrifice, Politics without principles--Mahatma Gandhi


I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us.
Pigs treat us as equals--Sir Winston Churchill


If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?--Abraham Lincoln


To give a love, you've got to live a love. To live a love, you've got to be part of--Neil Young


The surest way to corrupt a youth is to instruct him to hold in higher esteem
those who think alike than those who think differently--Friedrich Nietzsche


We are the sum of all of our choices--Albert Camus


My brother need not be idealized, or enlarged in death beyond what he was in life; to be remembered simply as a good and decent man, who saw a wrong and tried to right it,
saw suffering and tried to heal it, saw war
and tried to stop it--Ted Kennedy


Wives are: young men's mistresses, companions for middle age,
and old men's nurses--Sir Francis Bacon