The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

For he who lives more lives than one: More deaths than one must die.

Oscar Wilde

Stupidity is something unshakable nothing attacks it without breaking itself against it it is of the nature of granite, hard and resistant.

Gustave Flaubert

If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality.

Desmond Tutu

If you're going to plan a wedding, then a certain amount of suffering is not a choice.

Ellie Kemper

It's only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdy that you can get tenderness.

Lawrence Durrell

I have always been an outstanding football player, I have always had uncanny abilities, great arm strength, an immense ability to play the game from a quarterback standpoint. The problem was that I wasn't given the liberty to do certain things when I was young.

Michael Vick

What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

John Berger

Without slavery the rebellion could never have existed; without slavery it could not continue.

Abraham Lincoln

If you're an entrepreneur and you think that the president makes a difference to your business, you should stay at your current job.

Guy Kawasaki

Our faith comes in moments our vice is habitual.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

Thomas Jefferson

Do not allow to slip away from you freedoms the people who came before you won with such hard knocks.

David Herbert Lawrence