The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

How exquisitely human was the wish for permanent happiness, and how thin human imagination became trying to achieve it.

...every year for decades there had been great excitement over the Largest Vegetable competition ("That would be my husband", was the standard comment).

It takes more courage to examine the dark corners of your own soul than it does for a soldier to fight on a battlefield

Treachery and violence are a just return for treachery and violence.

When you control opinion, as corporate America controls opinion in the United States by owning the media, you can make the masses believe almost anything you want, and guide them as you please.

I try to anticipate exactly where my teammates are going to be. Sometimes I look good. Sometimes I look bad.

Sometimes you write a song in a certain era and it's got a certain kind of significance.

I felt it better to speak to God than about Him.

Relax Beatrice, I've driven a car before.' MARCUS 'I've done a lot of things before, but that doesn't mean I'm any good at them!' TRIS