Quotes-good-bad-any....

[Guilmon and a shotgun]

"You've taken my rhyme, there's nothing left to sing" - Strength of the world, Avenged Sevenfold

[BigD]

This is a bit of a long one, but in this day and age when Big Brother is continually throwing away our money in ways it has no right to do so, I think it's fairly relevent:

"Mr. Speaker – I have as much respect for the memory of the deceased, and as much sympathy for the sufferings of the living, if suffering there be, as any man in this House, but we must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for a part of the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not go into an argument to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right so to appropriate a dollar of the public money. Some eloquent appeals have been made to us upon the ground that it is a debt due the deceased. Mr. Speaker, the deceased lived long after the close of the war; he was in office to the day of his death, and I have never heard that the government was in arrears to him. This government can owe no debts but for services rendered, and at a stipulated price. If it is a debt, how much is it? Has it been audited, and the amount due ascertained? If it is a debt, this is not the place to present it for payment, or to have its merits examined. If it is a debt, we owe more than we can ever hope to pay, for we owe the widow of every soldier who fought in the War of 1812 precisely the same amount. There is a woman in my neighborhood, the widow of as gallant a man as ever shouldered a musket. He fell in battle. She is as good in every respect as this lady, and is as poor. She is earning her daily bread by her daily labor; but if I were to introduce a bill to appropriate five or ten thousand dollars for her benefit, I should be laughed at, and my bill would not get five votes in this House. There are thousands of widows in the country just such as the one I have spoken of, but we never hear of any of these large debts to them. Sir, this is no debt. The government did not owe it to the deceased when he was alive; it could not contract it after he died. I do not wish to be rude, but I must be plain. Every man in this House knows it is not a debt. We cannot, without the grossest corruption, appropriate this money as the payment of a debt. We have not the semblance of authority to appropriate it as a charity. Mr. Speaker, I have said we have the right to give as much of our own money as we please. I am the poorest man on this floor. I cannot vote for this bill, but I will give one week's pay to the object, and if every member of Congress will do the same, it will amount to more than the bill asks."

David Crocket on a bill that was to appropriate money to a widow of a distinguished naval officer.

The rest of the article can be read here:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig4/ellis1.html

[Bee]

Wow. That last one makes this one seem... insignifigant.

"No More Pencils, No More Books,
No More Teacher's Dirty Looks,
Out For Summer, Out 'Til Fall,
We Might Not Come Back At All"

-Alice Cooper, "School's Out"

[circeus]

"Nothing irks someone who cannot maintain their composure so much as someone who can."
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=...ment-11628

[Guilmon and a shotgun]

i prefer quotes that are short and to the point...else i fall asleep.

"Big guns, Small Brain!" - Yours truly.

[circeus]

It's interesting — but not surprising — that (some) political operatives think of their candidates in the way that others think of robots, animals, elves, and death-squad members: useful but dangerous creatures whose initiative needs to be carefully restrained by programming, training, or magical spells. --Mark Liberman

[BigD]

Another long quote from the same article. I apologize if people find these tiring to read, but the words said within are, in my opinion, important and worth reading:

"The power of collecting and disbursing money at pleasure is the most dangerous power that can be entrusted to man, particularly under our system of collecting revenue by a tariff, which reaches every man in the country, no matter how poor he may be, and the poorer he is the more he pays in proportion to his means. What is worse, it presses upon him without his knowledge where the weight centers, for there is not a man in the United States who can ever guess how much he pays to the government. So you see, that while you are contributing to relieve one, you are drawing it from thousands who are even worse off than he. If you had the right to give anything, the amount was simply a matter of discretion with you, and you had as much right to give $20,000,000 as $20,000. If you have the right to give to one, you have the right to give to all; and, as the Constitution neither defines charity nor stipulates the amount, you are at liberty to give to any and everything which you may believe, or profess to believe, is a charity, and to any amount you may think proper. You will very easily perceive what a wide door this would open for fraud and corruption and favoritism, on the one hand, and for robbing the people on the other. No, Colonel, Congress has no right to give charity. Individual members may give as much of their own money as they please, but they have no right to touch a dollar of the public money for that purpose. If twice as many houses had been burned in this county as in Georgetown, neither you nor any other member of Congress would have thought of appropriating a dollar for our relief. There are about two hundred and forty members of Congress. If they had shown their sympathy for the sufferers by contributing each one week's pay, it would have made over $13,000. There are plenty of wealthy men in and around Washington who could have given $20,000 without depriving themselves of even a luxury of life. The Congressmen chose to keep their own money, which, if reports be true, some of them spend not very creditably; and the people about Washington, no doubt, applauded you for relieving them from the necessity of giving by giving what was not yours to give. The people have delegated to Congress, by the Constitution, the power to do certain things. To do these, it is authorized to collect and pay moneys, and for nothing else. Everything beyond this is usurpation, and a violation of the Constitution."

[Frisk E. Coyote]

Now for something people will read before the post above!

"I'LL GRAB A SPOON AND CUT YOU DEEP, THEN FUCK THE WOUND UNTIL YOU SLEEP."

-Something I mutter continuously under my breath as of last week to freak teachers out.

[Bee]

"It's like Harold And Kumar Go To White Castle, 'cept one of us is sober."

-me, commenting the other night as me and my dad tried in vain to locate a Taco Bell(I was the sober one.)

[Erethzium]

Hey, you'd better listen to them. Freaky things happen when they get mad.

Hunter: Yes...Dragons are quite intriguing.

Sparx: Yeah, until you're almost KILLED BY ONE like HER! *points to Cynder*

Cynder: *evil glare*