"The first rule of holes: When you're in one stop digging."
— Molly Ivins

"It's all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?"
— Molly Ivins

"All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent. "
— Thomas Jefferson

"The earth does not belong to us. We belong to the earth."
— Chief Seattle (Chief Seattle's Speech)

"We in America do not have government by the majority. We have government by the majority who participate. "
— Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
— Thomas Jefferson