For all you lurkers with a low post count

[the GOAT]

To make knowledge valuable, you must have the cheerfulness of wisdom.

 

[the GOAT]

It is not enough to help the feeble up, but to support him after.

 

[the GOAT]

Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people.

 

[the GOAT]

Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.

 

[the GOAT]

The aging process has you firmly in its grasp if you never get the urge to throw a snowball.

 

[the GOAT]

Foolproof systems don't take into account the ingenuity of fools.

 

[the GOAT]

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

 

[the GOAT]

Party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

 

[the GOAT]

Too many people expect wonders from democracy when the most wonderful thing of all is just having it.

 

[the GOAT]

Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

 

[the GOAT]

Absolute faith corrupts as absolutely as absolute power.

 

[the GOAT]

If you do not conquer self, you will be conquered by self.

 

[the GOAT]

All the forces in the world are not so powerful as an idea whose time has come.

 

[the GOAT]

There are people who can talk sensibly about a controversial issue; they're called humorists.

 

[the GOAT]

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

 

[the GOAT]

A vivid thought brings the power to paint it; and in proportion to the depth of its source is the force of its projection.

 

[wildroamer]

What's this? A spam thread?!

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It's actually a spam forum. Get it right.

 

[the GOAT]

Inside myself is a place where I live all alone and that's where you renew your springs that never dry up.

 

[the GOAT]

He who brings goods for sale is blessed with good fortune, but he who keeps them till the price rises is accursed.

 

[wildroamer]

Hey Goat. How's about you throw in an "etc" here in there, eh?