Motto(s) for the Cheney/Bush administration

Erasmus:

War is delightful to those who have had no experience of it.

Or perhaps, from Mark Twain:

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve them. It is easier to stay out than get out.

And, here are some lines for general consumption from George Bernard Shaw:

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed but that he cannot believe anyone else.

All cribbed, with immense gratitude, from The Quotations Page.