"I'm all for keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools. Lets start with Typewriters!"

-- Frank Lloyd Wright

"If people are good only because they fear punishment and hope for reward, then we are a sorry lot indeed."

-- Albert Einstein

"My family and I are deeply sorry for all that Vice President Cheney and his family have had to go through this week."

-- Harry Whittington (upon his release from the hospital after being accidentally shot by Vice President Dick Cheney)

"This administration reacts to anyone who questions this illegal program by saying that those of us who demand the truth and stand up for our rights and freedoms somehow has a pre-9/11 world view. In fact, the President has a pre-1776 world view. Our government has three branches, not one. And no one, not even the President, is above the law."

-- Senator Russ Feingold (speaking about the NSA's wire-tapping of American citizens without Court approval)

"I came out for exercise, gentle exercise, and to notice the scenery and to botanise. And no sooner do I get on that accursed machine than off I go hammer and tongs."

-- H.G. Wells, The Wheels of Chance

"God does not lead His children around hardship, but leads them straight through hardship. But He leads! And amidst the hardship, He is nearer to them than ever before."

-- Otto Dibelius (1880-1967)