So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

Who so taketh in hand to frame any state or government ought to presuppose that all men are evil, and at occasions will show themselves so to be.

Sir Walter Raleigh

There is nothing wrong in using people. The success never uses people except to their advantage.

Mark Caine

What is peddled about nowadays as philosophy, especially that of N.S., but has nothing to do with the inner truth and greatness of that movement is nothing but fishing in that troubled sea of values and totalities.

Martin Heidegger

The slanders poured down like Niagara. If you take into consideration the setting -- the war and the revolution -- and the character of the accused -- revolutionary leaders of millions who were conducting their party to the sovereign power -- you can say without exaggeration that July 1917 was the month of the most gigantic slander in world history.

Leon Trotsky

He who loses wealth loses much he who loses a friend loses more but he that loses his courage loses all.

Miguel de Cervantes

The fact that, in the United States, there are people serving ten-year prison terms for growing marijuana plants in their backyards while Wall Street racketeers, who have defrauded millions of people and destroyed the global economy, walk free is a kind of bizarre hypocrisy that boggles my mind.

Mark Haskell Smith

Inferiors revolt in order that they may be equal and equals that they may be superior. Such is the state of mind which creates revolutions.

Aristotle

I'm a family guy, so I would love to have a family; I would love to find that perfect person to have a family with.

Lance Bass

If an ass goes traveling it will not come home a horse.

Proverb

Not an inch of our territory not a stone of our fortress.

Jules Favre

Magnus reached out to touch Alec, but Alec moved away. Magnus' hand fall to himself.

Cassandra Clare

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge.

Martin Luther King Jr.