"On the Internet nobody knows you are a puppy"

  About me:
    male - since birth
    conservative libertarian - small government, strong defense, freedom of religion
    party affiliation - Toga and Slumber Party (TSP), voting for Grand Old Puppies (GOP)
    support   - Israel (go Bibi)
    detest     - al-Media aka "Weapons of Mass Distraction and Misdirection"

  About FreeRepublic:
    FreeRepublic is a testament to the power of distributed knowledge and thinking

  Quotations, Words of Wisdom, taglines :

"If you don't ask the right questions you may not get the right answers"
"We learn from history that we learn nothing from history" - George Bernard Shaw
"Those who do not learn from history are condemned to repeat it" - George Santayana
"History doesn't repeat itself, but it emulates itself periodically" - CutePuppy
"Some things in life can be explained only as proof that God has a sense of humor" - CutePuppy
"Cogito ergo sum" - René Descartes       ~ ~       "Sum ergo cogito" - CutePuppy
"Money can't buy happiness, but it can buy chocolate which should suffice" - CutePuppy
"The heights of happiness have limits, the depths of misery have none" - CutePuppy
"People can't be always happy. However, there are many people who are always miserable" - CutePuppy
"People skating on thin ice should not be surprised to find they can't walk on water" - CutePuppy

"Those who think they are gaming the system should not be surprised to find that the system is gaming them" - CutePuppy
"Democracy must be something more than two wolves and a sheep voting on what to have for dinner" - James Bovard
"No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the Congress is in session" - Mark Twain
"The only difference between a tax man and a taxidermist is that the taxidermist leaves the skin" - Mark Twain
"If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man" - Mark Twain
"One of the striking differences between a cat and a lie is that a cat has only nine lives" - Mark Twain
"A lie can travel halfway round the world while the truth is putting on its shoes" - Mark Twain
"Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it" - Mark Twain
"Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please" - Mark Twain
"You're entitled to your own opinion, but not your own facts"
"Facts are meaningless. You could use facts to prove anything that's even remotely true!" - 'Homer Simpson'
"Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored" - Aldous Huxley
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" - Ayn Rand

"à la guerre comme à la guerre"
"Praemonitus praemunitus - Forewarned is forearmed"
"It is better to have a gun and not need it than to need a gun and not have it"
"Pick battles big enough to matter, small enough to win" - Jonathan Kozol
"Don't fight a battle if you don't gain anything by winning" - Gen. George S. Patton, Jr.
"You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it" - Margaret Thatcher
"It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog" - Mark Twain
"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral courage so rare" - Mark Twain
"When you set out to take Vienna, take Vienna" - Napoléon Bonaparte
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" - Napoléon Bonaparte
"When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging" - Will Rogers
"A diplomat is an honest man sent abroad to lie for his country" - Sir Henry Wotton
"War is continuation of diplomacy by other means" - Carl von Clausewitz
"Diplomacy and politics are wars by other means" - CutePuppy
"If war is your problem, lawyers are not the answer" - CutePuppy
"War is not a 'policy', winning or losing a war is a policy" - CutePuppy
" 'Peace process' and 'State of war' are misnomers. 'Process of war' starts when a 'State of peace' ceases to exist" - CutePuppy
" 'Peace at any cost' always comes at a price too high" - CutePuppy
"Appeasing the unappeasable is never appropriate or opportune" - CutePuppy

"It is virtually necessary for politicians to make a virtue of necessity" - CutePuppy
"Politics is the art of the possible, politicking is the art of pandering" - CutePuppy (hat tip to Otto von Bismarck)
" 'Silent majority' will become 'silent minority' if it chooses to remain silent" - CutePuppy
"There are no classless societies; there are healthy societies, with the large middle class, and the dying ones, without" - CutePuppy
"Liberals say 'we' meaning 'we, the government'; conservatives say 'we' meaning 'we, the people' " - CutePuppy
"Liberals value feel-good intentions and actions, conservatives value feel-good results" - CutePuppy
"Republicans are good at fighting America's enemies, Democrats are good at fighting Republicans" - CutePuppy
"Democrats criminalize their opponents' politics and politicize their friends' crimes" - CutePuppy
"Democrats have two major constituent groups: 'the poor' who think they benefit from Big Government and 'the rich' who really do" - CutePuppy
"Democrats' governing motto - United, they'll stand. The divided we'll govern" - CutePuppy
"For Democrats, Big Government is big business" - CutePuppy

"Rome is the mob" - attributed to Gaius Julius Caesar and Gaius Gracchus
"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money" - Alexis de Tocqueville
"Despotism may govern without faith, but Liberty cannot" - Alexis de Tocqueville
"They who would give up essential liberty for temporary security, deserve neither liberty or security" - Ben Franklin
"They who would give up esssential security for temporary liberty, will have neither security nor liberty" - CutePuppy
" 'Government of the people, by the people, for the people' has devolved into 'People of the government, by the government, for the government' " - CutePuppy
"Big government is not the solution to our problems. Big government is the problem" - Ronald Reagan
"Those who welcome the enlargement of government to solve their problems but are afraid of science and technology should be afraid of big government and welcome the advancement of science and technology" - CutePuppy
"Science and technology = smaller, better, cheaper, faster. Government = bigger... more... more... more..." - CutePuppy
"Over time, it's natural for technology to get smaller, better and cheaper, and for the government to get bigger, worse and more expensive" - CutePuppy
"Politicians misusing science and scientists misusing politics do so only for their own enrichment and empowerment" - CutePuppy
"Crime doesn't pay. Investment in technology pays for itself. Buying the government pays off in spades" - CutePuppy
"Man-made Global Warming is a 'politics of science' get-rich scheme sold as 'Eco Scare' by Al Gore et al" - CutePuppy
"Communism and fascism are but two sides of the same socialist coin" - CutePuppy
"Socialism is a 'Less-than-Zero-Sum' game - the more you play, the less there is left to play with" - CutePuppy
"Socialism is a pyramid scheme disguised as a system of government" - CutePuppy
"Pay-as-you-go is a government-speak for a pyramid scheme" - CutePuppy
"Democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried" - Sir Winston Churchill
"If you are not a socialist in your 20s you don't have a heart, if you are a socialist in your 40s you don't have a brain" - Sir Winston Churchill

"The problem with socialism is that you eventually run out of other people’s money" - Margaret Thatcher
"To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches" - Margaret Thatcher
"Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy" - Margaret Thatcher
"Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't" - Margaret Thatcher
"Being prime minister is a lonely job... you cannot lead from the crowd" - Margaret Thatcher
"Nothing is more obstinate than a fashionable consensus" - Margaret Thatcher
"I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air" - Margaret Thatcher

"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor man by destroying the rich.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away men’s initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and should do for themselves."
        - Rev. William J. H. Boetcker (often attributed to Abraham Lincoln)
"Most men believe that it would benefit them if they could get a little from those who have more.
How much more would it benefit them if they would learn a little from those who know more" - Rev. William J. H. Boetcker

"Don't underestimate your power to change yourself; don't overestimate your power to change others" - Wayne Dyer
"God grant me the Strength to change the things I can; the Serenity to deal with the things I cannot change; and the Wisdom to know the difference" - the Serenity Prayer

"It is amazing what you can accomplish if you do not care who gets the credit" - Ronald Reagan (also Harry S. Truman)
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power" - Abraham Lincoln
"Great men don’t move to the center. Great men move the center" - L. Neil Smith
"The greatest danger for most of us is not that our aim is too high and we miss it, but that it is too low and we reach it" - Michelangelo
"People with great minds talk about ideas. People with average minds talk about events. People with small minds talk about other people"
"True genius is knowing when to stop"
"Good decisions come from experience. Experience comes from bad decisions"
"Bad ideas never die, they just get resurrected with new makeup and lexicon" - CutePuppy
"Humans are the only species on Earth that use and value aesthetics without regard to functionality" - CutePuppy
"Chaos under new management remains Chaos" - CutePuppy
"In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in practice, there is" - Jan van de Snepscheut

"Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind" - Albert Einstein
"Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom" - Albert Einstein
"Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it" - Albert Einstein
"The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits" - Albert Einstein
"Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former" - Albert Einstein

"Stupid is as stupid does" - 'Forrest, Forrest Gump'
"Never underestimate the power of stupid people in large numbers" - 'Homer Simpson'
"First, God created idiots. That was just for practice. Then He created school boards" - Mark Twain
"Never argue with an idiot. He will drag you down to his level, then beat you with experience" - Bob Smith
"Ignorance can be cured, but stupidity is forever" - Aristophanes
"Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance" - George Bernard Shaw
"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble; it's what you know that just ain't so" - Mark Twain
"Those who are most ignorant and unwilling to learn are ones who most obstinately convinced of their opinions" - CutePuppy
"One is not stupid when he is ignorant of the facts, one is stupid when he refuses to learn" - CutePuppy
"Being smart isn't always an advantage. Sometimes it's a cruel and unusual punishment" - CutePuppy
"It takes considerable knowledge just to realize the extent of your own ignorance" - Thomas Sowell
"Never ascribe to malice that which can be adequately explained by incompetence or stupidity" - Napoléon Bonaparte
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his job depends on not understanding it" - Upton Sinclair
"The most valuable commodity I know of is information" - 'Gordon Gekko'
"Data is not information. Information is not knowledge. Knowledge is not understanding. Understanding is not wisdom. Wisdom is not truth" - Clifford Stoll, Gary Schubert (extended)
"Eliminate the impossible; whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth" - 'Sherlock Holmes'
"There are known knowns - there are things we know we know... There are known unknowns - we know there are some things we do not know. But there are also unknown unknowns - the ones we don't know we don't know" - Donald Rumsfeld
"There are known problems with known solutions, known problems with unknown solutions, and unknown problems with unknown solutions" - William Schweber
"The problem is not that there are problems. The problem is expecting otherwise..." - Theodore Rubin
"Problems are the price of progress" - Charles F. Kettering
"You make an effort to be smart, you can do well. And if you don't, you get stuck in... Democratic Party" - [almost] John Kerry
"Why aren't more peopre interrigent, rike me?" - 'Ronery' Kim Jong Ir

"The person who agrees with you 80 percent of the time is a friend and an ally - not a 20 percent traitor" - Ronald Reagan
"Friends may come and go, but enemies accumulate" - Thomas Jones
"Real friendship is shown in times of trouble; prosperity is full of friends" - Euripedes
"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them" - Ralph Waldo Emerson
"A friend is someone you can talk to and ask questions without fear of appearing stupid" - CutePuppy
"Our worst enemies here are not the ignorant and simple... our worst enemies are the intelligent and corrupt" - Henry Graham Greene
"If you have no enemies, you are not important enough to have made any" - Alexandre Dumas
"Keep your friends close, and your enemies closer" - Sun Tzu
"Never hate your enemies, it affects you judgment" - 'Michael Corleone'
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?" - Abraham Lincoln
"We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction" - Aesop
"We can learn even from our enemies" - Ovid
"Our friends show us what we can do, our enemies teach us what we must do" - Johann von Goethe
"A man can't be too careful in the choice of his enemies" - Oscar Wilde

"If something is inevitable, it will happen" - Herb Stein
"It's tough to make predictions, especially about the future" - Yogi Berra
"The best way to predict the future is to make it happen" - Peter F. Drucker / Alan C. Kay
"What we obtain too easily or cheap, we esteem too lightly" - Thomas Paine
"Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice" - Thomas Paine
"Principles have no real force except when one is well fed" - Mark Twain
"Idealism is fine, but as it approaches reality, the cost becomes prohibitive" - William F. Buckley, Jr.
"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook" - William James
"Cloud nine gets all the publicity, but cloud eight is actually cheaper, less crowded and has a better view" - George Carlin
"Communication is 10 percent what you say and 90 percent how you say it"
"Media is unidentified source of most evil in the world" - CutePuppy