Quotes

Ganked from my lovely and talented wife's blog:

The meme: select five quotations from here that tell your truths. These are mine.


I do not take a single newspaper, nor read one a month, and I feel myself infinitely the happier for it.
--Thomas Jefferson

Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what you now have was once among the things you only hoped for.
--Epicurus

The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
--Eugene McCarthy

Truth is tough. It will not break, like a bubble, at a touch; nay, you may kick it about all day like a football, and it will be round and full at evening.
--Oliver Wendell Holmes

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will stay bought.
--Simon Cameron