“I am a conservative.  Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so.  Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.”  -Russell Kirk

 

"When you look over his criminal record, in my opinion, he shouldn’t ever have been out of prison to start with."  -Robeson County Sheriff Burnis Wilkins

 

"I am stating very seriously, and this is not an overstatement: *I* picked the cotton, *I* carried it to the market, and *I* built the railroads under someone else’s whip for nothing."  -James Baldwin

 

"Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America."  -Eric Hoffer