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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations

A classic since 1953 with over 20,000 quotes from over 3,000 authors.


Famous Last Words

Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bons Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure


Stretch Your Wings

Famous Black Quotations for the Young


American Quotations

An exhaustive collection of profound quotes from the founding fathers, presidents, statesmen, scientists, constitutions, court decisions


The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations


Last Words of Saints and Sinners

700 Final Quotes from the Famous, the Infamous, and the Inspiring Figures of History


America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations

Contains over 2,100 profound quotations from founding fathers, presidents, constitutions, court decisions and more


The Law

This 1850 classic is an absolute must read for anyone interested in law, justice, truth, or liberty. A most compelling and revolutionary look at The Law.


Bartlett's Familiar Quotations

A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition)


The Stupidest Things Ever Said by Politicians

Rise up, America -- and laugh out loud at the greatest gaffes that no spin doctor could possibly fix!


The 776 Even Stupider Things Ever Said

Another great collection of stupidity


Quotable Quotes

Wit and Wisdom for All Occasions from America's Most Popular Magazine


The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time

You don't have to be a genius to sound like one. Here's a collection of the most profound and provocative wit and wisdom in the English language in two lines or less.


2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs

Invaluable sampler of witticisms, epigrams, sayings, bon mots, platitudes and insights chosen for their brevity and pithiness.


Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts Funny Sayings

A stupendous collection of quotes, quips, epigrams, witticisms, and humorous comments for personal enjoyment and ready reference.


Quick Quips and Quotes; 532 Things I Wish I Had Said

Quick Quips and Quotes is the Ultimate Collection of one liners.


Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes

The ultimate anthology of anecdotes, now revised with over 700 new entries.


Quotations for Public Speakers

A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology


Liberty - The American Revolution

This compelling series traces the events leading up to the war and America's fight for freedom.


Founding Fathers

The story of how these disparate characters fomented rebellion in the colonies, formed the Continental Congress, fought the Revolutionary War, and wrote the Constitution


Libertarianism: A Primer

David Boaz, director of the Cato Institute, has written a simple introduction to Libertarianism inteneded to appeal to disgruntled Democrats and Republicans everywhere.


The Libertarian Reader

Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman


Thomas Paine: Collected Writings

All the classics: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters

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Douglas AdamsThe knack of flying is learning how to throw yourself at the ground and miss.
Franklin P. AdamsTo err is human; to forgive, infrequent.
Franklin P. AdamsThere are plenty of good five-cent cigars in the country. The trouble is they cost a quarter. What this country needs is a good five-cent nickel.
John AdamsI Said to my Wife, I have accepted a Seat in the House of Representatives and thereby have consented to my own Ruin to your Ruin and the Ruin of our Children. I give you this Warning that you may prepare your Mind for your Fate.
John Adams[D]emocracy will soon degenerate into an anarchy, such an anarchy that every man will do what is right in his own eyes and no man's life or property or reputation or liberty will be secure, and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral virtues and intellectual abilities, all the powers of wealth, beauty, wit and science, to the wanton pleasures, the capricious will, and the execrable cruelty of one or a very few.
John Quincy AdamsLaw logic -- an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.
Herbert Sebastien AgarThe truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear.
Roger AllenCongress is continually appointing fact-finding committees, when what we really need are some fact-facing committees.
Woody AllenWe stand today at a crossroads: One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other leads to total extinction. Let us hope we have the wisdom to make the right choice.
Woody AllenThe lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep.
Oscar AmeringerPolitics is the gentle art of getting votes from the poor and campaign funds from the rich, by promising to protect each from the other.
Laurie AndersonParadise is just like where you are right now, only much better.
Anonymous Gold MinerAll and everybody, this is my claim, fifty feet on the gulch, cordin to Clear Creek District Law, backed up by shotgun amendments.
AristophanesUnder every stone lurks a politician.
Thurman ArnoldThe spectacle of a judge pouring over the picture of some nude, trying to ascertain the extent to which she arouses prurient interests, and then attempting to write an opinion which explains the difference between that nude and some other nude has elements of low comedy.
Sir Francis BaconImagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is.
Tallulah BankheadNobody can be exactly like me. Even I have trouble doing it.
Tallulah BankheadCocaine habit forming? Of course not. I ought to know, I've been using it for years.
Tallulah BankheadI'm a foe of moderation, the champion of excess. If I may lift a line from a die-hard whose identity is lost in the shuffle, "I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
Dave BarryAs a taxpayer, you are required to be fully in compliance with the United States Tax Code, which is currently the size and weight of the Budweiser Clydesdales.
Dave BarryThe Democrats seem to be basically nicer people, but they have demonstrated time and time again that they have the management skills of celery. They're the kind of people who'd stop to help you change a flat, but would somehow manage to set your car on fire. I would be reluctant to entrust them with a Cuisinart, let alone the economy. The Republicans, on the other hand, would know how to fix your tire, but they wouldn't bother to stop because they'd want to be on time for Ugly Pants Night at the country club.
Mayor Marion BarryI promise you a police car on every sidewalk.
Mayor Marion BarryThe contagious people of Washington have stood firm against diversity during this long period of increment weather.
Mayor Marion BarryI am making this trip to Africa because Washington is an international city, just like Tokyo, Nigeria or Israel. As mayor, I am an international symbol. Can you deny that to Africa?
Mayor Marion BarryIf you take out the killings, Washington actually has a very, very low crime rate.
Gerald BarzanTaxation with representation ain't so hot either.
Pierre-Augustin BeaumarchaisAs long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.
Pierre-Augustin BeaumarchaisProvided I do not write about the government, or about religion, or politics, or morals, or those in power, or public bodies, or the Opera, or the other state theatres, or about anybody who is active in anything, I can print whatever I want.
Samuel BeckettWe are all born mad. Some remain so.
Ernest BennPolitics is the art of looking for trouble,finding it whether it exists or not, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedy.
Yogi BerraIf the world were perfect, it wouldn't be.
Ambrose BierceFaith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel.
Ambrose BierceVote: The instrument and symbol of a free man's power to make a fool of himself and a wreck of his country.
Ambrose BierceThe gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling.
Ambrose BierceLogic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose BierceOptimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious.
Ambrose BierceOpposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.
Ambrose BierceHistory is an account mostly false, of events mostly unimportant, which are brought about by rulers, mostly knaves, and soldiers, mostly fools.
Ambrose BierceAn election is nothing more than the advanced auction of stolen goods.
Ambrose BierceDiplomacy: The patriotic art of lying for one's country.
Ambrose BierceHeathen, n. A benighten creature who has the folly to worship something that he can see and feel.
Ambrose BierceAlliance: In international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third.
William BlakeWhere there is money there is no art.
Bill BonnerThe entire world economy rests on the consumer; if he ever stops spending money he doesn't have on things he doesn't need -- we're done for.
Daniel BoorstinWe must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
Dr. Jim BorenBureaucracy is the epoxy that greases the wheels of progress.
Dr. Jim BorenEvery bureaucrat has a constitutional right to fuzzify, profundify and drivelate. It's a part of our freedom of speech...If people can understand what is being said in Washington, they might want to take over their own government again.
Dr. Jim BorenPublic apathy is more powerful than public opinion. There's more of it.
Dr. Jim BorenWhen in charge, ponder... When in trouble, delegate... When in doubt, mumble.
Jorge Luis BorgesReality is not always probable, or likely.
James BovardDemocracy must be something more than two
wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner.
Bertolt BrechtSuppose they gave a war, and nobody came? Why then, the war would come to you!
Ashleigh BrilliantI either want less corruption, or more chance to participate in it.
Ashleigh BrilliantI waited and waited, and when no message came, I knew it must have been from you.
Ashleigh BrilliantBy doing just a little every day, I can gradually let the task completely overwhelm me.
David BroderAnybody that wants
the Presidency so much
that he'll spend two years
organizing and campaigning for it
is not to be trusted
with the office.
Heywood Hale BrounThe urge to gamble is so universal and its practice so pleasurable that I assume it must be evil.
Art BuchwaldTax reform is taking the taxes off things that have been taxed in the past and putting taxes on things that haven't been taxed before.
Frank Gelett BurgessWithout bigots, eccentrics, cranks and heretics the world would not progress.
Edmund BurkeThey defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.
George BurnsToo bad all the people who know how to run this country are busy running taxicabs or cutting hair.
George W. BushThey misunderestimated me.
Samuel ButlerThere should be some schools
called deformatories
to which people are sent
if they are too good
to be practical.
Sen. Robert C. ByrdIs it any wonder, why the approval ratings of the Congress go up every time we go into recess?
John CageI can't understand why people are frightened of new ideas. I'm frightened of the old ones.
Simon CameronAn honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.


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