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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations
A classic since 1953 with over 20,000 quotes from over 3,000 authors.


Famous Last Words
Apt Observations, Pleas, Curses, Benedictions, Sour Notes, Bons Mots, and Insights from People on the Brink of Departure


Stretch Your Wings
Famous Black Quotations for the Young


American Quotations
An exhaustive collection of profound quotes from the founding fathers, presidents, statesmen, scientists, constitutions, court decisions


The Oxford Dictionary of Humorous Quotations


Last Words of Saints and Sinners
700 Final Quotes from the Famous, the Infamous, and the Inspiring Figures of History


America's God and Country: Encyclopedia of Quotations
Contains over 2,100 profound quotations from founding fathers, presidents, constitutions, court decisions and more


The Law
This 1850 classic is an absolute must read for anyone interested in law, justice, truth, or liberty. A most compelling and revolutionary look at The Law.


Bartlett's Familiar Quotations
A Collection of Passages, Phrases, and Proverbs Traced to Their Sources in Ancient and Modern Literature (17th Edition)


The Stupidest Things Ever Said by Politicians
Rise up, America -- and laugh out loud at the greatest gaffes that no spin doctor could possibly fix!


The 776 Even Stupider Things Ever Said
Another great collection of stupidity


Quotable Quotes
Wit and Wisdom for All Occasions from America's Most Popular Magazine


The Most Brilliant Thoughts of All Time
You don't have to be a genius to sound like one. Here's a collection of the most profound and provocative wit and wisdom in the English language in two lines or less.


2,715 One-Line Quotations for Speakers, Writers & Raconteurs
Invaluable sampler of witticisms, epigrams, sayings, bon mots, platitudes and insights chosen for their brevity and pithiness.


Phillips' Book of Great Thoughts Funny Sayings
A stupendous collection of quotes, quips, epigrams, witticisms, and humorous comments for personal enjoyment and ready reference.


Quick Quips and Quotes; 532 Things I Wish I Had Said
Quick Quips and Quotes is the Ultimate Collection of one liners.


Bartlett's Book of Anecdotes
The ultimate anthology of anecdotes, now revised with over 700 new entries.


Quotations for Public Speakers
A Historical, Literary, and Political Anthology


Liberty - The American Revolution
This compelling series traces the events leading up to the war and America's fight for freedom.


Founding Fathers
The story of how these disparate characters fomented rebellion in the colonies, formed the Continental Congress, fought the Revolutionary War, and wrote the Constitution


Libertarianism: A Primer
David Boaz, director of the Cato Institute, has written a simple introduction to Libertarianism inteneded to appeal to disgruntled Democrats and Republicans everywhere.


The Libertarian Reader
Classic and Contemporary Writings from Lao-Tzu to Milton Friedman


Thomas Paine: Collected Writings
All the classics: Common Sense / The Crisis / Rights of Man / The Age of Reason / Pamphlets, Articles, and Letters

 
Will RogersWe are the only nation in the world that waits till we get into a war before we start getting ready for it. 
Will RogersIf we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, 'America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership'. 
Will RogersIt sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered. 
Will RogersThe short memories of the American voters is what keeps our politicians in office. 
Will RogersI'm not a member of any organized political party. I'm a Democrat. 
Will RogersAncient Rome declined because it had a Senate, now what's going to happen to us with both a House and a Senate? 
Will RogersA foreigner coming here and reading the Congressional Record would say that the President of the United States was elected solely for the purpose of giving Senators somebody to call a horse thief. 
Will RogersElections are a good deal like marriages, there's no accounting for anyone's taste. Every time we see a bridegroom we wonder why she ever picked him, and it's the same with Public Officials. 
Will RogersTomorrow is Labor Day, I suppose set by Act of Congress. Everything we do nowadays is either by, or against, Acts of Congress. How Congress knew anything about Labor is beyond us. 
Will RogersNever blame a legislative body for not doing something. When they do nothing, that don't hurt anybody. When they do something is when they become dangerous. 
Will RogersLiberty doesn't work as well in practice as it does in speeches. 
Will RogersThat's what a Congressman or a Senator is for -- to see that too much money don't accumulate in the national Treasury. 
Will RogersNothing makes a man, or a body of men, as mad as the truth. If there is no truth in it, they laugh it off. 
Will RogersThis thing about getting rid of a man in the Cabinet is all right, but there is one bad feature to it that few people realize. That is, that unfortunately every one of them is replaced by someone else. If it wasn't for that, this resignation business would be great. 
Will RogersThe difference between death and taxes is death doesn't get worse every time Congress meets. 
Will RogersThere is good news from Washington today. The Congress is deadlocked and can't act. 
Will RogersDiplomats are just as essential in starting a war as soldiers are in finishing it. 
Will RogersYou shake a slogan at an American and it's just like showing a hungry dog a bone. 
Will RogersIf you find yourself in a hole, stop digging. 
Will RogersThe minute you read something that you can't understand, you can almost be sure it was drawn up by a lawyer. 
Will RogersWill somebody please tell me what they do with all the Vice-Presidents a bank has? Why the United States is the biggest business institution in the world, and they got only one Vice-President and nobody has ever found anything for him to do. 
Will RogersYou see, in Washington they have these bodies, Senate and the House of Representatives. That is for the convenience of the visitors. If there is nothing funny happening in one, there is sure to be in the other, and in case one body passes a good bill, why, the other can see it in time and kill it. 
Will RogersI doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother. 
Will RogersDiplomacy is the art of saying nice doggy until you can find a rock. 
Will RogersDon't let yesterday use up too much of today. 
Will RogersYou can have all the advanced war methods you want, but, after all, nobody has ever invented a war that you don't have to have somebody in the guise of soldiers to stop the bullets. 
Will RogersOn account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does. 
Will RogersIncome taxes have made more liars out of the American people than golf. 
Will RogersHow is the government going to get the extra taxes? Out of the rich -- or just out of the poor, as usual? 
Will RogersInstead of giving money to found colleges to promote learning, why don't they pass a constitutional amendment prohibiting anybody from learning anything? If it works as good as the Prohibition one did, why, in five years we would have the smartest race of people on earth! 
Will RogersIf we took Congress seriously, we would be worrying all the time. 
Will RogersFarmers, get out your sense of humor! Congress meets to relieve you again next week. 
Will RogersI don't make jokes -- I just watch the government and report the facts. 
Will RogersThings in our country run in spite of the government, not by the aid of it. 
Will RogersThe more you read and observe about this Politics thing, you got to admit that each party is worse than the other. The one that's out always looks the best. 
Will RogersOne of these days they are going to remove so much of the 'hooey' and the thousands of things the schools have become clogged up with, and we will find that we can educate our broods for about one-tenth of the price and learn 'em something that they might accidentally use after they escape. 
Will RogersEverybody is ignorant, only on different subjects. 
Felix RohatynFairness does not require the redistribution of wealth; it requires the creation of wealth, geared to an economy that can provide employment for everyone able and willing to work. 
Ernst RohmSince I am an immature and wicked man, war and unrest appeal to me more than good bourgeois order. Brutality is respected, the people need wholesome fear. They want to fear someone. They want someone to frighten them and make them shudderingly submissive. 
Milton RokeachThe relative openness or closedness of a mind cuts across specific content; that is, it is not restricted to any one particular ideology, or religion, or philosophy, or scientific viewpoint. 
Madame Jeanne-Marie RolandO liberty! O liberty! What crimes are committed in thy name! 
Jon RolandThe test for whether one is living in a police state is that those who are charged with enforcing the law are allowed to break the laws with impunity. 
Art RolnickWe make money the old fashioned way. We print it. 
George L. RomanI am convinced that we can do to guns what we've done to drugs: create a multi-billion dollar underground market over which we have absolutely no control. 
Roman ProverbFelix qui nihil debet. (Happy is he who owes nothing.) 
Benjamin A. RoogeGive me control over a man's economic actions, and hence over his means of survival, and except for a few occasional heroes, I'll promise to deliver to you men who think and write and behave as I want them to. 
Eleanor RooseveltAnyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people. 
Eleanor RooseveltWe do not move forward by curtailing people’s liberty because we are afraid of what they may do or say. 
Eleanor RooseveltThose of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money. 
Eleanor RooseveltSmearing good people like Lauchlin Currie [former administrative assistant to President Roosevelt], Alger Hiss and others is, I think, unforgiveable... Anyone knowing Mr. Currie or Mr. Hiss, who are the two people whom I happen to know fairly well, would not need any denial on their part to know they are not Communists. Their records prove it. 
Eleanor RooseveltSpiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church. 
Eleanor RooseveltThe things you refuse to meet today always come back at you later on, usually under circumstances which make the decision twice as difficult as it originally was. 
Eleanor RooseveltIt is not that you set the individual apart from society but that you recognize in any society that the individual must have rights that are guarded. 
Franklin D. RooseveltAre we going to take the hands of the federal government completely off any effort to adjust the growing of national crops, and go right straight back to the old principle that every farmer is a lord of his own farm and can do anything he wants, raise anything, any old time, in any quantity, and sell any time he wants? 
Franklin D. RooseveltThe creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind -- men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others -- men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves. 
Franklin D. RooseveltIf the fires of freedom and civil liberties burn low in other lands, they must be made brighter in our own. If in other lands the press and books and literature of all kinds are censored, we must redouble our efforts here to keep them free. If in other lands the eternal truths of the past are threatened by intolerance, we must provide a safe place for their perception. 
Franklin D. RooseveltTrue individual freedom cannot exist without economic security and independence. 
Franklin D. RooseveltIt is a good thing to demand liberty for ourselves and for those who agree with us, but it is a better thing and a rarer thing to give liberty to others who do not agree with us. 
Franklin D. RooseveltA man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car, but if he has a university education he may steal the whole railroad. 
Franklin D. Roosevelt[The commerce clause was written] in the horse-and-buggy age ... since that time … we have developed an entirely different philosophy. ... We are interdependent, we are tied in together. And the hope has been that we could, through a period of years, interpret the interstate commerce clause of the Constitution in the light of these new things that have come to the country. It has been our hope that under the interstate commerce clause we could recognize by legislation and by judicial decision that a harmful practice in one section of the country could be prevented on the theory that it was doing harm to another section of the country. That was why the Congress for a good many years, and most lawyers, have had the thought that in drafting legislation we could depend on an interpretation that would enlarge the constitutional meaning of interstate commerce to include not only those matters of direct interstate commerce, but also those matters which indirectly affect interstate commerce. 
Franklin D. RooseveltHere is my principle: Taxes shall be levied according to ability to pay. That is the only American principle. 
Franklin D. RooseveltWe, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees. 
Franklin D. RooseveltIn politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happened, you can bet it was planned that way. 
Franklin D. RooseveltI do not believe in communism any more than you do, but there is nothing wrong with the communists in this country. Several of the best friends I have are Communists. 
Franklin D. RooseveltWe all know that books will burn -- yet we have the greater knowledge that books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can abolish memory... 
Franklin D. RooseveltI tell the American people solemnly that the United States will never survive as a happy and fertile oasis of liberty surrounded by a cruel desert of dictatorship. 
Franklin D. RooseveltThe real truth of the matter is, as you and I know, that a financial element in the large centers has owned the government of the U.S. since the days of Andrew Jackson. History depicts Andrew Jackson as the last truly honorable and incorruptible American president. 
Franklin D. RooseveltThe saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities -- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion. 
Franklin D. RooseveltThe only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the government. 
Franklin D. RooseveltI hope your committee will not permit doubts as to constitutionality, however reasonable, to block the suggested legislation. 
Franklin D. RooseveltFreedom to learn is the first necessity of guaranteeing that man himself shall be self-reliant enough to be free. 
Franklin D. RooseveltKnowledge -- that is, education in its true sense -- is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders. 
Franklin D. RooseveltThe truth is found when men are free to pursue it. 
Franklin D. RooseveltI am much interested and deeply impressed by what he has accomplished and by his evidenced honest purpose of restoring Italy and seeking to prevent general European trouble. 
Franklin D. RooseveltAll government employees should realize that the process of collective bargaining, as usually understood, cannot be transplanted into the public service. It has its distinct and insurmountable limitations when applied to public personnel management. 


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