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Here I am going to have some of my favorites

Here are some quotes:

He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even
his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he
establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
-Thomas Paine

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be
what we pretend to be.

There is a transcendent power in example. We reform others
unconsciously when we walk uprightly.
-Anne Sophie Swetchine (1782-1857) Russian-French author

Nobody goes there anymore--it's too crowded.
---Yogi Berra

"Man [has] always assumed that he was more intelligent than
dolphins because he had achieved so much...the wheel, New
York, wars and so on...while all the dolphins had ever done
was muck about in the water having a good time. But
conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were
far more intelligent than man...for precisely the same
reason."

---I'm not sure who said this.

"Here's to the Army and Navy and the
battles they have won; here's to America's colors,
the colors that never run." - Jack Burton (Kurt
Russell), BIG TROUBLE IN LITTLE CHINA

Every man takes the limits of his own field of vision for
the limits of the world.
-Arthur Schopenhauer (1788-1860) German philosopher

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be
what we pretend to be.

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself
I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the
sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a
smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst
the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
-Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) English physicist

You're not supposed to be so blind with patriotism that you
can't face reality. Wrong is wrong, no matter who says it.
Author: Malcolm X

Many politicians are in the habit of laying down as
self-evident the proposition that no people ought to be
free till they are fit to use their freedom. This maxim is
worthy of the fool in the old story who resolved not to go
into the water till he had learned to swim.
-Thomas Macauley, (1800-1859) English writer and politician

Around the turn of the century, when the United States was
still establishing its equality with many European nations,
a noted Frenchman remarked that any time an American had
nothing to do he could amuse himself by trying to find out
who his grandfather was.

Naturally, Americans did not like this suggestion that they
were a people of no descent, and there was very nearly an
international incident when Mark Twain remarked, "And whenever
a Frenchman has nothing to do, he can amuse himself endlessly
by trying to find out who his father was."

Here is a story:

[Don't know if this one's true, but it sounds like something
a lawyer would do....]

A New Orleans lawyer sought an FHA loan for a client. He was
told the loan would be granted if he could prove satisfactory
title to a parcel of property being offered as collateral.
The title to the property dated back to 1803, which took the
lawyer three months to track down.

After sending the information to the FHA, he received the
following reply:

"Upon review of your letter adjoining your client's loan
application, we note that the request is supported by an
Abstract of Title. While we compliment the able manner in
which you have prepared and presented the application, we
must point out that you have only cleared title to the
proposed collateral proper back to 1803. Before final
approval can be accorded, it will be necessary to clear
the title back to its origin."

Annoyed, the lawyer responded as follows:

"Your letter regarding title in Case No. 189156 has been
received. I note that you wish to have title extended further
than the 194 years covered by the present application. I was
unaware that any educated person in this country, particularly
those working in the property area, could not know that
Louisiana was purchased by the U.S. from France in 1803, the
year of origin identified in our application.

For the edification of uninformed FHA bureaucrats, the title
to the land prior to U.S. ownership was obtained from France,
which had acquired it by Right of Conquest from Spain. The
land came into possession of Spain by Right of Discovery made
in the year 1492 by a sea captain named Christopher Columbus,
who had been granted the privilege of seeking a new route to
India by the then reigning monarch, Isabella. The good queen,
being a pious woman and careful about titles, almost as much
as the FHA, took the precaution of securing the blessing of
the Pope before she sold her jewels to fund the expedition.

Now the Pope, as I'm sure you know, is an emissary of Jesus
Christ, the Son of God. And God, it is commonly accepted,
created this world. Therefore, I believe it is safe to presume
that He also made that part of the world called Louisiana. He,
therefore, would be the owner of origin. I hope to hell you
find his original claim to be satisfactory. Now, may we have
our loan?"

They got it.