The bore is usually considered a harmless creature, or of that class of irrational bipeds who hurt only themselves. – Maria Edgeworth, Thoughts on Bores
To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not. – Thomas Paine
The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didnt want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass. – Alice Walker
