Jefferson Quips...

A few political quotes I happen to think should grow some legs and wander the blogosphere...

"The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority. The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking." – A. A. Milne

"Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed." - Anna Quindlen

"The unrestricted competition so commonly advocated does not leave us the survival of the fittest. The unscrupulous succeed best in accumulating wealth." - Rutherford Birchard Hayes (Yes, THAT Rutherford B. Hayes)

"The central belief of every moron is that he is the victim of a mysterious conspiracy against his common rights and true deserts. He ascribes all his failure to get on in the world, all of his congenital incapacity and damfoolishness, to the machinations of werewolves assembled in Wall Street, or some other such den of infamy." - H. L. Mencken, 1936

And finally:

"The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable." - James A. Garfield

I'm open to further suggestions...