The desire to preserve our country from the calamities and ravages of war, by cultivating a disposition, and pursuing a conduct, conciliatory and friendly to all nations, has been sincerely entertained and faithfully followed. It was dictated by the principles of humanity, the precepts of the gospel, and the general wish of our country, and it was not to be doubted that the Society of Friends, with whom it is a religious principle, would sanction it by their support.

It is not the insurrections of ignorance that are dangerous, but the revolts of the intelligence.

James Russell Lowell

I was at the Olympic Games winning medals and I still doubted my image. I doubted what I looked like. That's sad.

Shawn Johnson

Learn to be pleased with everything; with wealth, so far as it makes us beneficial to others; with poverty, for not having much to care for; and with obscurity, for being unenvied.

Plutarch

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.

George Bernard Shaw

Information, usually seen as the precondition of debate, is better understood as its by-product.

Christopher Lasch

I stand for something. I stand for light. Even when I sleep!

Matthew Maher

Failure is an enigma. You worry about it, and it teaches you something.

James Dyson

When life doesn't meet your expectations, it was important to take it with grace.

Patricia Briggs

A great civilization is not conquered from without until it has destroyed itself from within.

Ariel Durant

I have been called arrogant myself in my time, and hope to earn the title again, but to claim that I am privy to the secrets of the universe and its creator - that's beyond my conceit.

Christopher Hitchens

The intellectual property situation is bad and getting worse. To be a programmer, it requires that you understand as much law as you do technology.

Eric Allman

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55