“I don’t make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.” – Will Rogers

“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” – Mark Twain

“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” – Aesop

“If you don’t read the newspaper you are uninformed, if you do read the newspaper you are misinformed.” – Mark Twain

“Every time a newspaper dies, even a bad one, the country moves a little closer to authoritarianism.” – Richard Kluger

“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.” – Theodore Roosevelt