I really like Bartleby’s response to his boss’s order. It seems especially appropriate in regards to the grandiose visions of the anointed.

I will not sign a plan that adds one dime to our deficits either now or in the future. Period. BHO. Yeah, right.

Non-combatant, n. A dead Quaker. Ambrose Bierce

I can’t deny I’m a better ex-president than I was a president. Jimmy Carter.

A good parson once said that where mystery begins religion ends. Cannot I say, as truly at least, of human laws, that where mystery begins, justice ends? Edmund Burke

Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence. John Adams.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We live in an age of science and abounding accumulation of material things. These did not create the Declaration. Our Declaration created them. Calvin Coolidge

Avant-garde artistes such as respondents remain entirely free to épater les bourgeois [shock the middle classes]; they are merely deprived of the additional satisfaction of having the bourgeoisie taxed to pay for it. Antonin Scalia

Politics is supposed to be the second oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first. Ronald Reagan