Some of my favorite collected quotes that have inspired me, made me think, and maybe some are thoughts to live by…

“The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.”
Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton / Richelieu (act III, sc. 1, l. 49)

“They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.”
Benjamin Franklin

“It don’t mean a thing if you can’t get that Ping….”
Duke Ellington, 1932

“I contend that we are both atheists. I just believe in one fewer god than you do. When you understand why you dismiss all the other possible gods, you will understand why I dismiss yours.”
historian Stephen Henry Roberts (1901-71)

“…we are here to help each other get through this thing, whatever it is.”
son of Kurt Vonnegut to him

“When fascism comes it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross.”
Sinclair Lewis

“Whatever is funny is subversive, every joke is ultimately a custard pie… a dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.”
George Orwell

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
George Orwell

“Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger.”
J. R. R. Tolkien

“All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given to us.”
J. R. R. Tolkien

“the only thing we have to fear is fear itself.”
President Franklin D. Roosevelt, 1932

“Our loyalty is due entirely to the United States. It is due to the President only and exactly to the degree in which he efficiently serves the United States. It is our duty to support him when he serves the United States well. It is our duty to oppose him when he serves it badly.”
Abraham Lincoln

The following are not notable quotes but just the asinine words of a failed President…

“…again, I don’t know where he is. I — I’ll repeat what I said. I truly am not that concerned about him.”
George Bush, referring to Osama bin Laden

“If this were a dictatorship, it’d be a heck of a lot easier, just so long as I’m the dictator.”
George Bush, Washington, D.C., Dec. 19, 2000

“There’s an old saying in Tennessee — I know it’s in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on –shame on you. Fool me — you can’t get fooled again.”
George Bush, Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 17, 2002