No Holds Barred

"It is by the goodness of God that in our country we have those three unspeakably precious things: freedom of speech, freedom of conscience, and the prudence never to practice either of them."
—Mark Twain

"We're a generation of men raised by women. I don't think another woman is really what we need right now."
—Tyler Durden, Fight Club

"Women like to pretend they have no power so they can't be held accountable for how they use it."
—Jack Kammer, in If Men Have All the Power, How Come Women Make the Rules?

"Feminism is to female as racism is to race."
—Unknown

"We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both."
—Louis Dembitz Brandeis (1856-1941), Justice US Supreme Court

"The strongest reason for the people to retain the right to bear arms is, as a last resort, to protect themselves against tyranny in government."
—Thomas Jefferson

"When one person suffers from a delusion, it is called insanity. When many people suffer from a delusion, it is called Religion."
—Robert M. Pirsig

"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
—Henry David Thoreau

"When people fear the government, there is tyranny. When government fears the people, there is liberty."
—Thomas Paine

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats."
—H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable."
—H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"A good politician is quite as unthinkable as an honest burglar."
—H.L. Mencken (1880-1956)

"Rarely is the question asked: Is our children learning?"
—George W. Bush, in Florence, SC
(January 11, 2000)

"The mission must be to fight and win war and therefore to prevent war from happening in the first place."
—George W. Bush, the day before Super Tuesday in San Diego

"When it is all said and done, I will have made more money than I ever dreamed I would make."
—George W. Bush

"It would be a mistake for the United States Senate to allow any kind of human cloning to come out of that chamber."
—George W. Bush, Washington, D.C.,
April 10, 2002
Finally! Something Bush and I can agree on...

"What luck for the rulers that men do not think."
—Adolf Hitler

"The enormous gap between what U.S leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology."
—Michael Parenti

"They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
—Benjamin Franklin

"A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
—Edward R. Morrow

"The working class and the employing class have nothing in common."
—Industrial Workers of the World Preamble

"I have yet to meet the man who is as fond of virtue as he is of beauty in women."
—Confucius, Analects (IX:18)

"Not to mend one's ways when one has erred is to err indeed."
—Confucius, Analects (XV:30)

"The gentleman understands what is moral. The small man understands what is profitable."
—Confucius, Analects (IV:16)

"Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage."
—Confucius, Analects (II:24)

"True progress lies in the direction of decentralization, both territorial and functional, in the development of the spirit of local and personal initiative, and of free federation from the simple to the compound, in lieu of the present hierarchy from the centre to the periphery."
—Peter Kropotkin, Definition of Anarchism in Encyclopedia Britannica, 1910

"Behind every evil man, there is a woman that made him that way."
—Mr. Brister

"Not all men are fools—
some are bachelors."
—Unknown

"Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage."
—Winston Churchill

"The human race consists of the damned and the ought-to-be damned."
—Mark Twain

"There is no sadder sight than a young pessimist, except an old optimist."
—Mark Twain

"Every one is a moon, and has a dark side which he never shows to anybody."
—Mark Twain

"The trouble ain't that there is too many fools, but that the lightning ain't distributed right."
—Mark Twain