"It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument." - William G. McAdoo

<"Idealism is what precedes experience; cynicism is what follows." - David T. Wolf

"People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them." - George Bernard Shaw

"Abortion is advocated only by persons who have themselves been born." - Ronald Reagan

"Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish what is worth reading." - GM Trevelyan

"Calamities are of two kinds: misfortunes to ourselves, and good fortune to others." - Ambrose Bierce

"I have an existential map. It has 'You are here' written all over it." - Steven Wright

"Whoso would be a man must be a nonconformist." - Ralph Waldo Emerson