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• It is well, I die hard, but I am not afraid to go. -- George Washington, 14 December 1799
• I hope I shall never be deterred from detecting what I think a cheat, by the menaces of a ruffian.
  -- Samuel Johnso...
• Lisa: {I _still_ don't believe all the founding fathers were Stonecutters.
  } Homer: {That's because you trust your stupid schoolbooks....
• When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet fool'd with hope, men favour the decei
  Trust on, and think to-morrow will repay. To-morrow 's falser than the former day...
• In the dark colony of night, when I consider man's magnificent capacity for malice
  madness, folly, envy, rage, and destructiveness, and I wonder whether we shall not end up as breakfast for newts and polyps, I seem to hear the muffled cries of all the words in all the books with covers closed....
• I have always given it as my decided opinion that no nation has a right to intermeddle in the internal concerns of anothe
  hat every one had a right to form and adopt whatever government they liked best to live under them- selve...
• As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government.
  I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality....
• I am looking for a honest man. -- Diogenes the Cynic
• I see a good deal of talk from Washington about lowering taxes.
  I hope they do get 'em lowered enough so people can afford to pay 'em. -- Will Roge...