Great Quotes Thread

Don't just post good quotes here, post great ones.

Here are two great quotes to start this thread off.

"Free societies are societies in motion, and with motion comes tension, disent, friction. Free people strike sparks, and those sparks are the best evidence of freedom's existence."
Salmon Rushdie

"What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist."
Salmon Rushdie

Any fool can make a rule, and any fool will mind it.

--- Henry David Thoreau

Do not hire a man who does your work for money, but him who does it for love of it.

--- Henry David Thoreau

I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestioned ability of a man to elevate his life by conscious endeavor.

-- Henry David Thoreau

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Rather than love, than money, than fame, give me truth.

-- Henry David Thoreau

Talking much about oneself can also be a means to conceal oneself.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche

What is done out of love always takes place beyond good and evil.

-- Friedrich Nietzsche,

Anyone who has the power to make you believe absurdities has the power to make you commit injustices.

-- Voltaire

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

-- Voltaire

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

-- Voltaire

God gave us the gift of life; it is up to us to give ourselves the gift of living well.

-- Voltaire

Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.

-- Voltaire

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

-- Voltaire

Life is thickly sown with thorns, and I know no other remedy than to pass quickly through them. The longer we dwell on our misfortunes, the greater is their power to harm us.

-- Voltaire

A thousand years may scarcely form a state. An hour may lay it in ruins.

-- Lord Byron

All that is valuable in human society depends upon the opportunity for development accorded the individual.

-- Albert Einstein

Any fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius-and a lot of courage-to move in the opposite direction.

-- Albert Einstein

"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
William Pitt, 1795

"A policeman's job is only easy in a police state."
Orson Welles

"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
Hubert Horatio Humphrey (U.S. Vice President 1965–69)

The only thing new in this world is the history that you don't know.

- Harry S. Truman

I never give them hell. I just tell the truth and they think it's hell.

- Harry S. Truman

"Winston, if you were my husband, I'd poison your tea."

- Lady Nancy Astor, to Winston Churchill

"Nancy, if I were your husband, I'd drink it."

- Winston Chuchill, in reply

“You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.”

- Winston Churchill

“The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see.”

- Winston Churchill

Raiders Suck

I said it, and so has 9/10ths of the Universe

Few friendships would survive if each one knew what his friend says of him behind his back.

-- Blaise Pascal

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

-- P.J. O'Rourke