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- We don't want to start a nuclear war unless we really have to, now do we Jack?
- Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) to Col. Jack Ripper in Dr. Strangelove
- (Clemenceau) once said that war is too important to be left to the generals. When he said that, 50 years ago, he may have been right...but now, war is too important to be left to the politicians. They have neither the time, the training, nor the inclination for strategic thought...And I can no longer, sit around and allow Communist subversion, Communist corruption, and Communist infiltration of our precious bodily fluids.
- Col. Jack Ripper, commander of Burpleson AFB to Group Capt. Mandrake (Peter Sellers) in Dr. Strangelove
- America has been discovered before, but it has always been hushed up.
- Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900)
- What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.
- Margot Asquith
- Illegal aliens have always been a problem in the United States. Ask any Indian.
- Robert Orben
- A thing worth having is a thing worth cheating for.
- W.C. Fields
- Living with a conscience is like driving a car with the brakes on.
- Budd Schulberg
- In order to preserve your self-respect, it is sometimes necessary to lie and cheat.
- Robert Byrne
- Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
- George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)
- The discovery of America was the occasion of the greatest outburst of cruelty and reckless greed known in history.
- Joseph Conrad (1857 - 1924)
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