Category: Quote of the Week

“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the outcome of the vote.” –Benjamin Franklin

“What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear? It must tend to some end, or else our universe is ruled by chance, which is unthinkable.” –Sherlock Holmes, The Cardboard Box

“The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.” —John Locke

“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: ‘What! You too? I thought I was the only one.’” —C.S. Lewis

“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” –Groucho Marx

“Why don’t you get married instead of feeding your neurosis?” — Roy DeSoto, “Emergency!”

“Freedom and liberty are now words so worn with use and abuse that one must hesitate to employ them to express the ideals for which they [used to stand.]” — F.A. Hayek

“Affliction comes to us, not to make us sad but sober; not to make us sorry but wise.” — H.G. Wells

“Hammond is insisting SG-1 needs a socio-political nerd to offset our overwhelming coolness.” — Jack O’Neill, Stargate SG-1

“I love this place at night. The stars… there’s no right or wrong in them. They’re just there.” — Sgt. Elias, Platoon