A real patriot is the fellow who gets a parking ticket and rejoices that the system works.

An optimist stays up to see the New Year in. A pessimist waits to make sure the old one leaves.

—Bill Vaughan

If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it's another nonconformist who doesn't conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.

—Bill Vaughan

Youth is when you're allowed to stay up late on New Year's Eve. Middle age is when you're forced to.

—Bill Vaughan

A citizen of America will cross the ocean to fight for democracy, but won't cross the street to vote in a national election.

—Bill Vaughan

Suburbia is where the developer bulldozes out the trees, then names the streets after them.

—Bill Vaughan

Every nation ridicules other nations, and all are right.

—Arthur Schopenhauer

The history of liberty is the history of resistance. The history of liberty is a history of the limitation of governmental power, not the increase of it.

—Unknown

The flag is the embodiment, not of sentiment, but of history.

—Woodrow Wilson

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniencies attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.

—Thomas Jefferson