"I can't eat on an empty stomach!"

Old Hank Nowak, a marine, told me this when his wife sent me to the VFW to get him for supper. So I bellied up with him and joined in drinking.

"There is no difference between communism and socialism, except in the means of achieving the same ultimate end: communism proposes to enslave men by force, socialism - by vote. It is merely the difference between murder and suicide." ~~Ayn Rand

Also

If your going to be dumb you better be tough.

“If ye love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly upon you, and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen.” Samuel Adams

BAM! - Emeril Lagasse.

"You shall see men you never heard of, whose names you don't know, going away down through the meadows with long ducking-guns, with water-tight boots...on bleak wintry, distant shores, with guns at half-caulk; and they shall see teal...shelldrakes, whistlers, black ducks, ospreys, and many other wild and noble sights before night, such as they who sit in parlors never dream of." ~ Henry David Thoreau