My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

To be realistic today is to be visionary. To be realistic is to be starry-eyed.

Hubert Humphrey

America is the greatest nation ever founded. The ideals are the greatest ever espoused in human history, and we just need the country to live up to them. But what I worry about are the 1 million black men in the prison system.

Henry Louis Gates

Once is orthodox, twice is puritanical.

Lord Melbourne

Fear is the passion of slaves.

Patrick Henry

I love loud music. I listen loud, and that's part of how I've learned how to do this. Record softly and play back loud and a whole other thing happens.

T-Bone Burnett

The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are the things you get ashamed of because words diminish your feelings - words shrink things that seem timeless when they are in your head to no more than living size when they are brought out.

Stephen King

All truly wise thoughts have been thought already thousands of times; but to make them truly ours, we must think them over again honestly, until they take root in our personal experience.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

It is simply untrue that all our institutions are evil that all politicians are mere opportunists, that all aspects of university life are corrupt. Having discovered an illness, it's not terribly useful to prescribe death as a cure.

George McGovern

I was confirmed at my prep school at the age of 13.

Richard Dawkins

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments, and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

Sam Harris

The society of girls is a very delightful thing, Copperfield. It's not professional, but it's very delightful.

Charles Dickens

I believe that God put us in this jolly world to be happy and enjoy life.

Robert Baden-Powell