"There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so." -- Shakespeare, Hamlet, act ii, Scene 2

"Sticks and stones may break my bones, but names will never hurt me." -- Schoolyard comeback

An excerpt from a speech by John F. Kennedy also seems apropos to Mudcat:

We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies, and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people

"What luck for rulers that men do not think." -- Adolph Hitler

"Judge a post on the merit of the words it contains. -- Anonymous