Quote of the day thread

To strive to be ordinary will gain you exactly that, to seek the extraordinary is to receive extraordinary rewards. - rbroyles
 
Everyone is a genius, but if you tell a fish he cannot climb a tree, he will think he is stupid the rest of his life - Einstein.
 
It is well enough that people of the nation do not understand our banking and monetary system, for if they did, I believe there would be a revolution before tomorrow morning.

Henry Ford
 
Mr. Merriweather: Men will believe anything, the more preposterous the better. Whales speak French at the bottom of the sea. The horses of Arabia have silver wings. Pygmies mate with elephants in darkest Africa. I have sold all those propositions.
 
Government is good at one thing: It knows how to break your legs, hand you a crutch, and say, "See, if it weren't for the government, you wouldn't be able to walk." -Harry Browne
 
"A man is no less a slave because he is allowed to choose a new master once in a term of years." - Lysander Spooner
 
"they must find it difficult .... those who have taken authority as the truth, rather than truth as the authority" - Gerald Massey
 
Another one that is germane to the news of the day

All that's necessary for the forces of evil to win in the world is for enough good men to do nothing.

Edmund Burke
 
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed and train a standardized citizenry, to down dissent and originality." - H. L. Mencken
 
"In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist. We must never let the weight of this combination endanger our liberties or democratic processes." -Eisenhower
 
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves."

Abraham Lincoln
 
If having a lick of sense is wetting the back of a stamp that dumb••• couldn't stick to an envelope.
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