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- Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.
- Ronald Reagan (1911 - 2004)
- Justice consists not in being neutral between right and wrong, but in finding out the right and upholding it, wherever found, against the wrong.
- Theodore Roosevelt (1858 - 1919), 1916 (quoted in the Theodore Roosevelt Centennial CD-ROM)
- The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pimps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason.
- Hunter S. Thompson (1939 - 2005), San Francisco Examiner, 1985
- Castles made of sand fall in the sea eventually.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
- Until the day when God shall deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is summed up in these two words,--'Wait and hope'.
- Alexandre Dumas (1802 - 1870), The Count of Monte Cristo
- I would like to be called an inspiration to people, not a role model--because I make mistakes like everybody else. When I'm offstage, I'm just like everybody else.
- Britney Spears (1981 - )
- Peace has never come from dropping bombs. Real peace comes from enlightenment and educating people to behave more in a divine manner.
- Carlos Santana, Associated Press interview, September 1, 2004
- Everything passes. Everything changes. Just do what you think you should do.
- Bob Dylan (1941 - ), "To Ramona"
- It could not be happening because this sort of thing did not happen. Any contradictory evidence could be safely ignored.
- Terry Pratchett, Jingo
- Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
- Terry Pratchett, Hogfather
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