Desperation is like stealing from the Mafia: you stand a good chance of attracting the wrong attention.

I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office, irrespective of former party opinions, who will endeavour to make the new constitutions and the laws passed under them as beneficial as possible to the true interests, prosperity, and liberty of all classes and conditions of the people.

General Robert E. Lee

Essential to life, is desiring the things that you need, than needing the things you desire.

Anthony Liccione

Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open.

Arthur Pine

The assumption must be that those who can see value only in tradition, or versions of it, deny man's ability to adapt to changing circumstances.

Stephen Bayley

Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here.

David Kay

So justice while she winks at crimes,Stumbles on innocence sometimes.

Samuel Butler (poet), Hudibras (

Dip your hands into life, scoop up memories, dreams, questions and ideas and weave them into stories.

Naomi Kinsman

People are scared to death of dying. I am the opposite.

Taylor Caldwell

Threats to freedom of speech, writing and action, though often trivial in isolation, are cumulative in their effect and, unless checked, lead to a general disrespect for the rights of the citizen.

George Orwell

The more laws the less justice.

Proverb

For behind all imperialism is ultimately the imperialistic individual, just as behind all peace is ultimately the peaceful individual.

Irving Babbitt