Politics: A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die.
Eleanor Roosevelt
One's philosophy is not best expressed in words; it is expressed in the choices one makes. In the long run, we shape our lives and we shape ourselves. The process never ends until we die. And, the choices we make are ultimately our own responsibility.
Do what you feel in your heart to be right. You'll be criticized anyway.
The nation that destroys its soil destroys itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
An election cannot give a country a firm sense of direction if it has two or more national parties which merely have different names, but are as alike in their principals and aims as two peas in the same pod.
I have no expectation of making a hit every time I come to bat.
If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something.
The only limit to our realization of tomorrow will be our doubts of today. Let us move forward with strong and active faith.
We, and all others who believe in freedom as deeply as we do, would rather die on our feet than live on our knees.
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way. The third is freedom from want. The fourth is freedom from fear.
These unhappy times call for the building of plans that build from the bottom up and not from the top down, that put their faith once more in the forgotten man at the bottom of the economic pyramid.
I sometimes think that the saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.
This generation of Americans has a rendezvous with destiny.
It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
Croesus said to Cambyses; That peace was better than war; because in peace the sons did bury their fathers, but in wars the fathers did bury their sons.
Francis Bacon
We are healed of a suffering only by experiencing it in full.
Marcel Proust
It is comforting when one has a sorrow to lie in the warmth of one's bed and there, abandoning all effort and all resistance, to bury even one's head under the cover, giving one's self up to it completely, moaning like branches in the autumn wind. But there is still a better bed, full of divine odors. It is our sweet, our profound, our impenetrable friendship.
Things don't change, but by and by our wishes change.
The charms of the passing woman are generally in direct proportion to the swiftness of her passing.
There are perhaps no days of our childhood we lived so fully as those we spent with a favorite book.
The USA has become government by the highest bidder because USA voters do not hold politicians accountable.
Don Mashak
OZOCRACY - Watch the spectacle (or divisive, polarizing issue) we, the politicians, have created or pointed out, pay no attention to the man behind the curtain. The politicians have us casting votes for them based on issues like lipsticked pigs, teen pregnancy, duplicitous social class polarization, who is the truer American, who is a homosexual, race and religion etc. while they steal us blind and violate the Public Trust. (Term is based on this scene from The Wizard of Oz http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWyCCJ6B2WE&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.squidoo.com%2FUSA_VOTERS_VOTE_NO_TO_GOVERNMENT_CORRUPTION_THIS_ELECTION&feature=player_embedded
I don't feel right unless I have a sport to play or at least a way to work up a sweat.
Hank Aaron
Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
Edward Abbey
Great Britain has lost an Empire and has not yet found a role.
Dean Acheson
The future comes one day at a time.
A memorandum is not written to inform the reader, but to protect the writer.
We have actively sought and are actively seeking to make the United Nations an effective instrument of international cooperation.
Everyone admits that love is wonderful and necessary, yet no one agrees on just what it is.
Diane Ackerman
A poem records emotions and moods that lie beyond normal language, that can only be patched together and hinted at metaphorically.
There is no way in which to understand the world without first detecting it through the radar-net of our senses.
Repeticio est mater studiorum.
Thomas Aquinas
Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.
Lord (John Emerich Edward Dalber
A wise person does at once, what a fool does at last. Both do the same thing; only at different times.
The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.
Children in a family are like flowers in a bouquet: there's always one determined to face in an opposite direction from the way the arranger desires.
Marcelene Cox
Parents are often so busy with the physical rearing of children that they miss the glory of parenthood, just as the grandeur of the trees is lost when raking leaves.
A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still upset.
James G. Cozzens
Our farmers round, well pleased with constant gain, like other farmers, flourish and complain.
George Crabbe
Habit with him was all the test of truth, it must be right: I've done it from my youth.
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