Peacetime qoutes....add any that you know

"A lot of people died when a lot of atomic bombs went off and nearly destroyed the world. If you don't know what an atomic bomb was, then imagine the worst thing possible. Atomic bombs were worse than that." -- Fallout 2

"One look around us ought to show that all our arbitrary measures and bounds have been clamped on us by mankind." --Author Unknown

"Wit is educated insolence." --Aristotle

"Faith: Belief without evidence in what is told by one who speaks without knowledge, of things without parallel." --Ambrose Bierce

"Pray: To ask the laws of the universe to be annulled on behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy." --Ambrose Bierce

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phrases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence." --Charles Austin Beard

"Men stumble over the truth from time to time, but most pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing happened." --Sir Winston Churchill

"De omnibus est dubitandum" (Everything should be questioned) --Descartes

"He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice." --Albert Einstein

"Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that will melt the stars." --Gustave Flaubert, "Madame Bovary" (1857)

"It isn't easy for an idea to squeeze itself into a head filled with prejudice." --Author Unknown

"We find it hard to apply the knowledge of ourselves to our judgment of others. The fact that we are never of one kind, that we never love without reservations and never hate with all our being cannot prevent us from seeing others as wholly black or white." --Eric Hoffer

"People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought, which they never use." --S?ren Kierkegaard

"One man's theology is another man's belly laugh." --Robert Heinlein

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

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from opposition; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." --Thomas Paine, Dissertations on First Principles of Government

"...a long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defence of custom." --Thomas Paine, Common Sense

"If you plan for a year, plant corn. If you plan for five years, plant a tree. If you plan for a century, educate the people." -- Unknown

"The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants." -- Poul Anderson, "The Avatar"

"I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true. I must, of course, admit that if such an opinion became common it would completely transform our social life and our political system; since both are at present faultless, this must weigh against it." --Bertrand Russell, "Skeptical Essays", I (1928)

"If the average man is made in God's image, then a man such as Beethoven or Aristotle is plainly superior to God, and so God may be jealous of him, and eager to see his superiority perish with his bodily frame. All animal breeders know how difficult it is to maintain a fine strain. The universe seems to be in a conspiracy to encourage the endless reproduction of peasants and Socialists, but a subtle and mysterious opposition stands eternally against the reproduction of philosophers." --HL Mencken

"The universe is full of magical things, patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper." --Eden Phillpotts

"Man is free at the moment he wishes to be." --Voltaire

"Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they have to say something." -?Plato

"There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible." --Sean O'Casey, "The Plough and The Stars"

"If it's not on fire, it's a software problem." --Matt Burch, Ambrosia Software

"[Five years old] is a time when the eyes are wide open and the patterns are not yet set; a time when one has not yet been hammered into accepting everything as immutable and hopeless; a time when the hands cannot do enough, the mind cannot learn enough, the world is infinite and colorful and filled with mysteries. Five is a special time before they take the questing, unquenchable, quixotic young soul of the young dreamer and thrust it into dreary schoolroom boxes. A time before they take the trembling hands that want to hold everything, touch everything, figure everything out, and make them lie still on desktops." --Harlan Ellison, "Jeffty is Five"