For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.

Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique.

Henry Louis Gates

By the rude bridge that arched the flood,Their flag to April's breeze unfurled,Here once the embattled farmers stood,And fired the shot heard round the world.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Really, the fundamental, ultimate mystery -- the only thing you need to know to understand the deepest metaphysical secrets -- is this: that for every outside there is an inside and for every inside there is an outside, and although they are different, they go together.

Alan Watts

Well let me tell you something, I can't be nobody but myself. Ya know what I'm saying? The thing that makes the world love Flav is Flav being himself. So honestly man, to tell you the truth: it was not hard to be myself. It was real easy.

Flavor Flav

How shall I leave thee, oh! my love, And blooming progeny? If I without thee mount above, 'Twill be no heav'n to me.

Ann Eliza Bleecker

To safeguard one's health at the cost of too strict a diet is a tiresome illness indeed.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

There are no facts, only interpretations.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Women should never chase elevators, buses or men, because there will always be another one!

Anonymousmale1

We have to unclutter our brains from worries that maybe people don't like us. Women tend to worry about popularity it doesn't matter if they like you. They need to respect you. They need to show that respect for you in your pay check. And that needs to be okay.

Mika Brzezinski

The theory of relativity worked out by Mr. Einstein, which is in the domain of natural science, I believe can also be applied to the political field. Both democracy and human rights are relative concepts - and not absolute and general.

Jiang Zemin

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

H. L. Mencken

The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it.

Eric Hoffer