There's much to be said for feeling numb. Time passes more quickly. You eat less and because numbness encourages laziness you do fewer things good or bad and the world's probably a better place for it.
Doug Coupland
Liberals it has been said are generous with other peoples' money except when it comes to questions of national survival when they prefer to be generous with other people's freedom and security.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Why should I care about posterity? What's posterity ever done for me?
Groucho Marx
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw
What this country needs what every country needs occasionally is a good hard bloody war to revive the vice of patriotism on which its existence as a nation depends.
Ambrose Bierce
At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.
Albert Camus
Dreading that climax of all human ills / The inflammation of his weekly bills.
Lord Byron
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
Nothing gives rest but the sincere search for truth.
Blaise Pascal
If you develop rules never have more than ten.
Donald Rumsfeld
