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"Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do."

-Johann Wolfgang von Goethe-

I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
- Voltaire

That is one of my favorite quotes, Hugz. I would have posted it but could not find it.

Yeah it's a nice quote....

"Such is the moral construction of the world that no national crime passes unpunished in the long run... Were present oppressors to reflect on the same truth, they would spare to their own countries the penalties on their present wrongs which will be inflicted on them in future times. The seeds of hatred and revenge which they [sow] with a large hand will not fail to produce their fruits in time. Like their brother robbers on the highway, they suppose the escape of the moment a final escape and deem infamy and future risk countervailed by present gain."

-Thomas Jefferson-

Also by Theodore Roosevelt:

"There is no room in this country for hyphenated Americanism. When I refer to hyphenated Americans, I do not refer to naturalized Americans. Some of the very best Americans I have ever known were naturalized Americans, Americans born abroad. But a hyphenated American is not an American at all.

This is just as true of the man who puts "native" before the hyphen as of the man who puts German or Irish or English or French before the hyphen. Americanism is a matter of the spirit and of the soul. Our allegiance must be purely to the United States. We must unsparingly condemn any man who holds any other allegiance.

But if he is heartily and singly loyal to this Republic, then no matter where he was born, he is just as good an American as any one else.

The one absolutely certain way of bringing this nation to ruin, of preventing all possibility of its continuing to be a nation at all, would be to permit it to become a tangle of squabbling nationalities, an intricate knot of German-Americans, Irish-Americans, English- Americans, French-Americans, Scandinavian- Americans, or Italian-Americans, each preserving its separate nationality, each at heart feeling more sympathy with Europeans of that nationality than with the other citizens of the American Republic.

The men who do not become Americans and nothing else are hyphenated Americans; and there ought to be no room for them in this country. The man who calls himself an American citizen and who yet shows by his actions that he is primarily the citizen of a foreign land, plays a thoroughly mischievous part in the life of our body politic. He has no place here; and the sooner he returns to the land to which he feels his real heart-allegiance, the better it will be for every good American."

Addressing the Knights of Columbus in New York City - October 12, 1915

A great libertarian quote~ and he probably didn't know he was a libertarian~

Hard to disagree w/that...

As i look on these Quotes being accumulated on this thread I notice many U.S. presidents of the past.

The thought occurs to me did they have or speech writers back then?

Wouldn't it be cool if politicians speechwriters where also on strike

Good question? I know Lincoln did the Gettysburg Address on a piece of scratch paper...

Jefferson and T. Roosevelt did not have speech writers, they were just great men, who knew what to say and acted upon what they said.

I'm sure the early Presidents wrote their own speeches.... They didn't know to hire handlers...

this is a primary reason i'm skeptical of all these canned debates and town hall meeting "reality shows"

I am in agreement.

It would be nice if ALL politicians spoke from the heart rather than playing to various constituencies to garner votes. They all do it

Some great ones there, some of my faves....


I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer.

- Brendan Behan

I have the simplest tastes. I am always satisfied with the best.

-- Oscar Wilde

I have great faith in fools - self confidence my friends call it.

-- Edgar Allan Poe

I could dance till the cows come home. On second thought, I'd rather dance with the cows till you come home.

-- Groucho Marx

I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent.

-- Ashleigh Brilliant

I can't understand it. I can't even understand the people who can understand it.

-- Queen Juliana of the Netherlands

I have a simple philosophy:

Fill what's empty.

Empty what's full.

Scratch where it itches.

-- A. R. Longworth

I've had a perfectly wonderful evening. But this wasn't it.

-- Groucho Marx

Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

-- Jules de Gaultier

I drink to make other people interesting.

-- George Jean Nathan

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson


Some others whom I don't know are attributed to...


If God had meant for man to be naked, he'd have given me bigger hands.

I can resist anything but temptation.

I like work ... I can sit and watch it for hours.

I didn't like the play, but I saw it under adverse conditions. The curtain was up.

I never met a piece of chocolate I didn't like.

I've known him as a man, as an adolescent and as a child - sometimes on the same day.

I've seen better heads on half a pint of beer.

It was a virgin forest, a place where the Hand of Man had never set foot.

Lmao....

Funny how we have all of this wisdom from the past. Now look at the world today!

graham norton on his relationship:

"in the words of facebook, it's complicated!"

graham norton on his relationship:

"in the words of facebook, it's complicated!"