Quotes

It’s not easy to come up with new & exciting ideas, so you have to come up with crazy ones.

-Noam Chomsky

The main problem with the internet is it has driven the proximal price of being a prick down to zero.

-Your Mother last night

The Public would sell every right they have for the spectre of magic beans let alone physical ones. They don’t believe in anything substantively other than comfort.

-Private author about US Politics

It’s easier to fool people than to convince them that they have been fooled

-Mark Twain

Great Britain is a republic with a hereditary president, while the United States is a monarchy with an elective king.

-Knoxville Journal 1896

If anyone can show me, and prove to me, that I am wrong in thought or deed, I will gladly change. I seek the truth, which never yet hurt anybody. It is only persistence in self-delusion and ignorance which does harm.

-Marcus Aurelius

History is a slaughter bench, upon which the happiness of nations, the wisdom of states, and the virtues of individuals are sacrificed

-Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel “Paraphrased”

Science hasn’t yet figured out how to solve obesity.

-USA Today 08/2022

A Hideous Hermaphroditical Character which has neither the Force and Firmness of a Man, Not the Gentleness and Sensibility of a Woman

-Written by Thomas Jefferson about John Adams who paid journalist James Thomson Callender to publish it

General Jackson’s mother was a common prostitute, brought to this country by the British soldiers! She afterwards married a mulatto man, with whom she had several children, of which number General Jackson is one!

-The Cincinnati Gazette 1828 on General Jackson

To be turned out by the Pimp of the White House

-Congressman Kenneth Rayner on President Franklin Pierce

Bastard Brat of a Scotch Peddler

-John Adams on Alexander Hamilton

Hatchet-Faced Nutmeg Dealer

-Stephen Douglas on Abraham Lincoln