Classic Quote, Roosevelt

"Happiness is not a goal; it is a by-product." Eleanor Roosevelt

Classic Quote, Washington

"Be courteous to all, but intimate with few, and let those few be well tried before you give them your confidence." George Washington

Classic Quote, Parks

"I have learned over the years that when one's mind is made up, this
diminishes fear; knowing what must be done does away with fear."
~ Rosa Parks

Classic Quote, Einstein

"A person who never made a mistake never tried anything new."
Albert Einstein

Classic Quote, Madison

"Free men must guard against the old trick of turning every contingency into a resource for accumulating force in government."

- James Madison
http://www2.dailyprogress.com/news/cdp-news/2012/oct/21/feds-wasting-money-confusion-centers-ar-2297284/

Classic Quote, Twain

"It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so."

Mark Twain
HT: @LibertarianMike

Wrong People Doing Right Thing

Milton Friedman said it well in 1975: "I do not believe that the solution to our problem is simply to elect the right people. The important thing is to establish a political climate of opinion which will make it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right thing."

http://www.realclearpolitics.com/articles/2012/11/14/the_freedom_movement_must_man_up_116160.html

Classic Quote, Lee

"I'm not in this world to live up to your expectations; you're not in this world to live up to mine." ― Bruce Lee
@posemethod

Classic Quotes, Sowell

"The first lesson of economics is scarcity: There is never enough of anything to satisfy all those who want it. The first lesson of politics is to disregard the first lesson of economics." Thomas Sowell

Classic Quotes, Adams

"I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic."
~ Abigail Adams

Classic Quote, Jung

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." Carl Jung

Classic Quote, Emerson

"All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better."
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Classic Quote, "Collette"

"I love my past, I love my present. I am not ashamed of what I have had, and I am not sad because I no longer have it."
- Colette

Classic Quote, Hamilton

"Those who stand for nothing fall for anything."
Alexander Hamilton

I stand for liberty.

Classic Quotes: Locke

"It is one thing to show a man that he is in an error, and another to put him in possession of the truth."
- John Locke

Classic Quote, White

@DarrellWhite: Perfection works better as a target than a goal. The goal, then, is to keep your eye on the target.

Esprit d'escalier

Esprit d'escalier ("wit of the staircase") is the French term for the
devastating riposte that one should have given at dinner but comes up
with only on the way out at the bottom of the staircase.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/charles-krauthammer-the-great-gaf
fe/2012/10/18/38ce0d18-1954-11e2-bd10-5ff056538b7c_story.html

Classic Quotes, Shaw

"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing."
- George Bernard Shaw

Classic Quote: Nikoley

"People are bad so we need government made up of People are bad so we need government made up of ...."  and so one.
http://animal-parts.tumblr.com/post/27796299072

Mencken

H. L. Mencken, Newspaper Columnist, "In Defense of Women" (1920), quoted in the August, 1999, Reader's Digest article "What's Wrong With Global Warming?" by Dennis T. Avery:
"The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed -- and hence clamorous to be led to safety -- by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary."