Favorite quotes--part 3.

I've got a few:

"You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth" (Henrik Ibsen)

"The nuclear bomb took all the fun out of war." (Edward Abbey)

"I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who has something to hide in the background. I have seen a great deal of patriotism; and I have generally found it the last refuge of the scoundrel." (G. K. Chesterton)

"It is not a sign of communal well-being when men turn to their government to execute all their business for them, but rather a sign of decay, as in the United States today. The state, indeed, is but one of the devices that a really healthy community sets up to manage its affairs." (H.L. Mencken)

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riddleofsteel: your first quote is actually from Moby Dick, and it's not a paraphrase. (98% sure on that, don't have the book on hand. It might be that Melville had Ahab quote Dante, but I've read both and the only one I remember it from is Moby Dick, and the words were almost exactly that.)
 
"a man will wait a long time on the hillside before a roast duck flies into his mouth".

"Heavy is the heart that is full of lead".
"98% of all statistics are wrong".
 
Garrison Keillor, while funny when talking about Lake Woebegone, is generally a pretty liberal sort with whom I disagree politically. Nevertheless, he nails it here:

"If you get all your information from local TV news, you end up knowing less than if you just stayed home on the couch and drank gin from the bottle." --Garrison Keillor
 
I saw one on TFL

Politicians are like diapers. They both need to be changed for the same reason.

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Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice. Moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.

Barry Goldwater--1964
 
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