"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary." - H.L. Mencken
"Today there are certain ideas which are so explosive that even to acknowledge their existence publicly, is to incur the most savage penalty from the reigning liberal establishment. Your persecutors will be the people who most preach tolerance. Yet they are the most intolerant of all." - Author unknown
"Gentlemen, I have come to the conclusion that one useless man is called a disgrace. That two are called a law firm. And that three or more is called a congress and by God I have had this Congress!" - William Daniels as John Adams in the film version of 1776