Entry 74

All in all, the framers would probably agree that it's better to impeach too often than too seldom. If presidents can't be virtuous, they should at least be nervous.
Joseph Sobran

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep
And in his simple show he harbors treason.
Shakespeare

There is something peculiarly sinister and insidious in even a charge of disloyalty. Such a charge all too frequently places a strain on the reputation of an individual which is indelible and lasting, regardless of the complete innocence later proved.
John Lord O'brian

Entry 73 (DEDICATED TO ALL THE FOOLS WHO SUPPORT CONTINUING THE WAR IN IRAQ)

The peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: "Our country -- when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right."
Carl Schurz

The heights of popularity and patriotism are still the beaten road to power and tyranny; flattery to treachery; standing armies to arbitrary government; and the glory of God to the temporal interest of the clergy.
David Hume

We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. When the loyal opposition dies, I think the soul of America dies with it.
Edward R. Murrow

I do not mean to exclude altogether the idea of patriotism. I know it exists, and I know it has done much in the present contest. But I will venture to assert, that a great and lasting war can never be supported on this principle alone. It must be aided by a prospect of interest, or some reward.
George Washington

The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us, and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen turning to crime; he is a good citizen driven to despair.
H. L. Mencken


Men in authority will always think that criticism of their policies is dangerous. They will always equate their policies with patriotism, and find criticism subversive.
Henry Steele Commager


Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country.
Hermann Goering

When a whole nation is roaring Patriotism at the top of its voice, I am fain to explore the cleanness of its hands and the purity of its heart.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

When fascism comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag and carrying the cross.
Sinclair Lewis

Entry 72

There can be but little liberty on earth while men worship a tyrant in heaven.

Robert Green Ingersoll

To believe in God is impossible - to not believe in Him is absurd.

Voltaire

Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

George Carlin

It amazes me to find an intelligent person who fights against something which he does not at all believe exists.

Mohandas Gandhi

If there were no God, there would be no atheists.

G.K. Chesterton

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.

Thomas Jefferson

I don't believe in God because I don't believe in Mother Goose.

Clarence Darrow

I can see how it might be possible for a man to look down upon the earth and be an atheist, but I cannot conceive how he could look up into the heavens and say there is no God.

Abraham Lincoln

We may seek God by our intellect, but we only can find him with our heart.

Cotvos

I believe in God as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.

C. S. Lewis

Entry 71

We are always looking for the book it is necessary to read next.
Saul Bellow


There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.
Saul Bellow



Take our politicians: they're a bunch of yo-yos. The presidency is now a cross between a popularity contest and a high school debate, with an encyclopedia of cliches the first prize.
Saul Bellow

Entry 70

A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running.
Groucho Marx

A man's only as old as the woman he feels.
Groucho Marx

A woman is an occasional pleasure but a cigar is always a smoke.
Groucho Marx


All people are born alike - except Republicans and Democrats.
Groucho Marx


Humor is reason gone mad.
Groucho Marx


My favourite poem is the one that starts 'Thirty days hath September' because it actually tells you something.
Groucho Marx

Entry 69

Death is the golden key that opens the palace of eternity.
John Milton


For what can war, but endless war, still breed?
John Milton


Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to my conscience, above all liberties.
John Milton

Enty 68

You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club.
Jack London



In a real dark night of the soul, it is always three o'clock in the morning, day after day.
F. Scott Fitzgerald


What is reading, but silent conversation.
Charles Lamb

All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God.
Voltaire


I've always taken 'The Wizard of Oz' very seriously, you know. I believe in the idea of the rainbow. And I've spent my entire life trying to get over it.
Judy Garland


All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets.
Voltaire

Entry 67

It is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.
H.L. Mencken


A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
H.L. Mencken


It is impossible to imagine Goethe or Beethoven being good at billiards or golf.
H.L. Mencken


The cosmos is a gigantic flywheel making 10,000 revolutions per minute. Man is a sick fly taking a dizzy ride on it.
H.L. Mencken

Entry 66

All theory, dear friend, is gray, but the golden tree of life springs ever green.
Goethe


Behavior is the mirror in which everyone shows their image.
Goethe


Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.
Goethe

Mysteries are not necessarily miracles.
Goethe

Entry 65

Poetry is the art of creating imaginary gardens with real toads.
Marianne Moore

Poetry is all nouns and verbs.
Marianne Moore


The deepest feeling always shows itself in silence; not in silence, but restraint.
Marianne Moore

Entry 64

Language is a city to the building of which every human being brought a stone.
Emerson

I am the King of Rome, and above grammar.
Siegismund

In general those who nothing have to say contrive to spend the longest time in doing it.
Lowell

Those who have few things to attend to are great babblers; for the less men think, the more they talk.
Montesquieu

Entry 63

A book is a garden, an orchard, a storehouse, a party, a company by the way, a counselor, a multitude of counselors.
Charles Baudelaire


Always be a poet, even in prose.
Charles Baudelaire


What is art? Prostitution.
Charles Baudelaire

A breath of wind from the wings of madness.
Charles Baudelaire

Entry 62

No excellent soul is exempt from a mixture of madness.
Aristotle

In ancient days the most celebrated precept was, "Know thyself"; in modern times it has been supplanted by the more fashionable maxim, "Know thy neighbor, and everything about him."
Johnson

No man was ever great without a touch of divine afflatus.
Cicero

Instinct is the nose of the mind.
Mme. DE Girardin


See! the mountains kiss high heaven,
And the waves clasp one another;
And the sunlight clasps the earth,
And the moonbeams kiss the sea...
Shelley