Great Throughts Treasury

"The unpleasant sound Bush is emitting as he traipses from one conservative gathering to another is a thin, tinny arf - the sound of a lap dog."

"There may be more poetry than justice in poetic justice."

"They seem to have a license to lie."

"There is an elegant memorial in Washington to Jefferson, but none to Hamilton. However, if you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government."

"There is a declining number of Americans paying income taxes, while more and more people are dependent for things that fewer and fewer people are paying for."

"We are given children to test us and make us more spiritual."

"Today the riskiest part of air travel is the drive to the airport, and the airlines use a barrage of stimuli to protect passengers from ennui."

"This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant."

"This is what bipartisanship looks like; constant rubbish from both sides of the aisle."

"Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes."

"Well, you know, the definition of second marriage is the triumph of hope over experience."

"Whatever right the Second Amendment protects is not as important as it was 200 years ago... The government should de-constitutionalize the subject by repealing the embarrassing Amendment."

"We know next to nothing about virtually everything. It is not necessary to know the origin of the universe; it is necessary to want to know. Civilization depends not on any particular knowledge, but on the disposition to crave knowledge."

"When America uses power, it makes people angry, but it gets their attention."

"When liberals' presidential nominees consistently fail to carry Kansas, liberals do not rush to read a book titled "What's the Matter With Liberals' Nominees?" No, the book they turned into a bestseller is titled "What's the Matter With Kansas?" Notice a pattern here?"

"You can pursue happiness by wearing a torn jersey. You can catch it by being good at something you love."

"You are a pyromaniac in a field of straw men."

"World War II was the last government program that really worked."

"You really don't want a president who is a football fan. Football combines the worst features of American life. It is violence punctuated by committee meetings."