"We will walk on our own feet; we will work with our own hands; we will speak our own minds...A nation of men will for the first time exist, because each believes himself inspired by the Divine Soul which also inspires all men."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one."
-Thomas Jefferson
"It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well."
-Publilius Syrus
"There are no dirty words, only dirty minds."
-Lenny Bruce
"A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin."
-H.L. Mencken
"It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it."
-Aristotle
"Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others."
-Groucho Marx