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But I, being poor, have only my dreams; I have spread my dreams under your feet; Tread lightly because you tread on my dreams.

"How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin." - Ronald Regan

"The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, 'I'm from the government and I'm here to help.'" - Ronald Regan

"All the President is, is a glorified public relations man who spends his time flattering, kissing and kicking people to get them to do what they are supposed to do anyway." - Harry S. Truman

"Whenever you have an efficient government you have a dictatorship." - Harry S. Truman

"If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" - Abraham Lincoln

"People who like this sort of thing will find this the sort of thing they like." - Abraham Lincoln, in a book review

“It's not a matter of whether or not someone's watching over you. It's just a question of their intentions.”

“To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best, night and day, to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight; and never stop fighting. “

“What we are is God's gift to us. What we become is our gift to God.”

“A single rose can be my garden... a single friend, my world”

"It all exists even if it's in or minds: fairies, myths, dragons. Who is to say that dreams and nightmares are not as real as the here and now?"

"Academe, n.: An ancient school where morality and philosophy were taught. Academy, n.: A modern school where football is taught."

"Acquaintance. A person whom we know well enough to borrow from, but not well enough to lend to."

"Alliance - in international politics, the union of two thieves who have their hands so deeply inserted in each other's pockets that they cannot separately plunder a third."

"Ambidextrous, adj.: Able to pick with equal skill a right-hand pocket or a left."

"Ambition. An overmastering desire to be vilified by enemies while living and made ridiculous by friends when dead."

"AMNESTY, n. The state's magnanimity to those offenders whom it would be too expensive to punish."

"Barometer, n.: An ingenious instrument which indicates what kind of weather we are having."

I could go on forever. Ambrose Bierce is pretty awesome.

"There is some irony in a blank journal. You can read it like an open book, but the story within remains a mystery." ~Kaiwyn

"Reports of my death have been greatly exaggerated." ~Mark Twain

"The future ain't what it used to be." ~Yogi Berra