"This grosses me the fuck out!" --Shanista from Cleveland, OH

Good! --The VP

Government as the lesser of two weevils...

"For were the impulses of conscience clear, uniform, and irresistibly obeyed, man would need no other lawgiver; that not being the case, he finds it necessary to surrender up a part of his property to furnish means for the protection of the rest; this he is induced to do by the same prudence which in every other case advises him, out of two evils, to choose the least."

--Thomas Paine

"Government can not obviate the defect in Man's moral character as any State will be compromised by the same vices which infect the Men who comprise it."

--The Virtuous Pornographer

"Never fear that you will fail to meet your social obligations if you do good without looking for reward."

--Marcus Aurelius

"He , who has command over Men, must not have command over Laws; neither must he, who has command over Laws, have command over Men."

--Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"There is no greater Honor than to serve the Public Trust and there is no greater crime than to betray that Trust."

--The Virtuous Pornographer

"Those who desire Virtue for its own sake, desire it either because the consciousness of it is a pleasure, or because the consciousness of being without it is a pain..."

--John Stuart Mill

"Truth alone is but a weak motive of action with Men." --Carl von Clausewitz

"Those who conspire against Nationalism do so because they know it means the desire of the People to reclaim what belongs to them, their wealth and their natural resources."

--Fidel Castro, Sept 6, 1960

"There is no one in any [State] who, is so far as he is a ruler, considers or enjoins what is for his own interest, but always what is the interest of his subjects..." --Plato, THE REPUBLIC

When I give money to the poor, the call me a Saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a Communist. --Dom Heldar Camara