"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that all the dunces are in confederacy against him." Jonathan Swift.
"The great thing about Glasgow is that if there's a nuclear attack it'll look exactly the same afterwards." Billy Connolly.
"In general, the art of government consists in taking as much money as possible from one class of the citizens to give to the other." Voltaire (silly me, I thought there'd never come a day when Voltaire and I agreed on something)
"Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us." Leo Tolstoy
