Quotes to Live By: American Democracy under Bush

A story of America's hilarious dark side, a place where democracy, as defined by Mencken, is "... the worship of Jackals by Jackasses"... "a circular firing squad of self-righteous viciousness."

"It takes two to speak the truth — one to speak and another to hear."
Henry Thoreau

"A belief tank is like a think tank, just without the doubt."
Tony Snow (as satired by Gary Trudeau in this cartoon)

Civilization begins with order, grows with liberty, and dies with chaos.
Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
One of the lessons of history is that nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.

All by Will Durant

All progress is based upon a universal innate desire on the part of every organism to live beyond its income.
- Samuel Butler

There is no cure for birth and death save to enjoy the interval.
- George Santayana

late 1960s and early 1970s speeches by Oregon Gov. Tom McCall. He promised to clean up the Willamette River, calling the mills at Albany, “a festering cancer on the broad, green bosom of the Willamette Valley” and demanding land use laws to rein in “sagebrush subdivisions and coastal condomania.”