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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

 
William ShakespeareThe abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. 
William ShakespeareNo legacy is so rich as honesty. 
William ShakespeareIf it be a sin to covet honor, I am the most offending soul. 
William ShakespeareTo willful men, the injuries that they themselves procure must be their schoolmasters. 
William ShakespeareWith devotion's visage and pious action we do sugar o'er the devil himself. 
William ShakespeareTrue hope is swift, and flies with swallow's wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 
William ShakespeareWhen the mind's free, The body's delicate. 
William ShakespeareSo every bondman in his own hand bear\\ The power to cancel his captivity. 
William ShakespeareTrue nobility is exempt from fear. 
Assata ShakurFreedom? you asking me about freedom? you asking me about freedom? I’ll be honest with you, I know a whole lot more, about what freedom isn’t than what it is ... 
Angel ShamayaLiberty's view of the government could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it works, work with it. If it doesn't, work against it. If it works you over, abolish it. 
Adi ShankaracharyaLoud speech, profusion of words, and possessing skillfulness in expounding scriptures are merely for the enjoyment of the learned. They do not lead to liberation. 
Albert ShankerWhen school children start paying union dues, that's when I'll start representing the interests of school children. 
Albert ShankerIt is time to admit that public education operates like a planned economy. It's a bureaucratic system where everybody's role is spelled out in advance, and there are few incentives for innovation and productivity. It's not a surprise when a school system doesn't improve. It more resembles a Communist economy than our own market economy. 
James ShapiroThe capacity of living organisms to alter their own heredity is undeniable. Our current ideas about evolution have to incorporate this basic fact of life. 
James ShapiroCells constantly adjust their metabolism to available nutrients, control their progress through their cell cycle to make sure that all progeny are complete at the time of division, repair damage as it occurs, and interact appropriately with other cells. In a multicellular context, they even undergo programmed cell death when suicide is beneficial to the entire population or to the multicellular organism as a whole. 
Jack SharpCan you imagine working at the following Company? It has a little over 500 employees with the following statistics: 29 have been accused of spousal abuse. 7 have been arrested for fraud. 19 have been accused of writing bad checks. 117 have bankrupted at least two businesses. 3 have been arrested for assault. 71 cannot get a credit card due to bad credit. 14 have been arrested on drug-related charges. 8 have been arrested for shoplifting. 21 are current defendants in law suits. 84 were stopped for drunk driving in 1998 alone. Can you guess which organization this is? Give up? It's the 535 members of your United States Congress. The same group that perpetually cranks out hundreds upon hundreds of new laws designed to keep the rest of us in line. 
Travis SharpGDP is an important metric for determining how much the United States could afford to spend on defense, but it provides no insight into how much the United States should spend. Defense planning is a matter of matching limited resources to achieve carefully scrutinized and prioritized objectives. When there are more threats, a nation spends more. When there are fewer threats, it spends less. As threats evolve, funding should evolve along with them. ... Unfortunately, setting defense spending at four percent of GDP would shield the Pentagon from careful scrutiny and curtail a much-needed transparent national debate. 
John ShattuckIn the twentieth century the number of people killed by their own governments under authoritarian regimes is four times the number killed in all this century’s wars combined. 
George Bernard ShawThere are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. 
George Bernard ShawYou have to choose [as a voter] between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the Government. And, with due respect for these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the Capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold. 
George Bernard ShawIf you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them. 
George Bernard ShawMartyrdom is the only way a person can become famous without ability. 
George Bernard ShawThe right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing. 
George Bernard ShawThe things most people want to know about are usually none of their business. 
George Bernard ShawAn election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it. 
George Bernard ShawThe fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. 
George Bernard ShawImprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims. 
George Bernard ShawThe power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it. 
George Bernard ShawA lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth. 
George Bernard ShawIt is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid. 
George Bernard ShawWe don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. 
George Bernard ShawThe power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don't have it. 
George Bernard ShawMarx’s Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element. 
George Bernard ShawWhen two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part. 
George Bernard ShawA government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. 
George Bernard ShawIf the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. 
George Bernard ShawOne man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. 
George Bernard ShawAll censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships. 
George Bernard ShawIf you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. 
George Bernard ShawAssassination is the extreme form of censorship. 
George Bernard ShawLife does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh. 
George Bernard ShawThis is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish selfish clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for it's own sake. Life is no "brief candle" to me. It is sort of a splendid torch which I have a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it over to future generations. 
George Bernard Shaw 
George Bernard ShawImagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. 
George Bernard ShawThere are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses. 
George Bernard ShawNobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does. 
George Bernard ShawYou see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?' 
George Bernard ShawPatriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it. 
George Bernard ShawSocialism means equality of income or nothing... under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly fed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well. 
George Bernard ShawThe American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom. 
George Bernard ShawWomen upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. 
George Bernard ShawWe have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. 
George Bernard ShawLack of money is the root of all evil. 
George Bernard ShawYou are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live. 
George Bernard ShawLiberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. 
George Bernard ShawThe more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. 
George Bernard ShawA fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. 
George Bernard ShawMy method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. 
George Bernard ShawThe reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. 
George Bernard ShawProgress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. 
George Bernard ShawThe liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. 
George Bernard ShawCensorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads. 
George Bernard ShawHegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. 
George Bernard ShawI can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. 
George Bernard ShawThe only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school. 
George Bernard ShawWhen a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. 
George Bernard ShawIf all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. 
George Bernard ShawAll great truths began as blasphemies. 
George Bernard ShawPeople are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. 
George Bernard ShawThe worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essense of inhumanity. 
George Bernard ShawA socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody. 
George Bernard ShawFew people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. 
George Bernard ShawDemocracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. 
George Bernard ShawIt is the deed that teaches, not the name we give it. Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their own kind. 


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