If I despised myself, it would be no compensation if everyone saluted me, and if I respect myself, it does not trouble me if others hold me lightly.

Any change is resisted because bureaucrats have a vested interest in the chaos in which they exist.

Richard M. Nixon

The main effect of a real revolution is perhaps that it sweeps away those who do not know how to wish, and brings to the front men with insatiable appetites for action, power and all that the world has to offer.

Eric Hoffer

In peace we can make many of them ignore good and evil entirely; in danger, the issue is forced upon them in a guise to which even we cannot blind them. There is here a cruel dilemma before us. If we promoted justice and charity among men, we should be playing directly into the Enemy's hands; but if we guide them to the opposite behaviour, this sooner or later produces (for He permits it to produce) a war or a revolution, and the undisguisable issue of cowardice or courage awakes thousands of men from moral stupor.This, indeed, is probably one of the Enemy's motives for creating a dangerous world-a world in which moral issues really come to the point. He sees as well as you do that courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point, which means, at the point of highest reality. A chastity or honesty, or mercy, which yieldsto danger will be chaste or honest or merciful only on conditions. Pilate was merciful till it became risky.(the enemy referred to is God)

C.S. Lewis, The Screwtape Letter

I was allowed to ring the bell for five minutes until everyone was in assembly. It was the beginning of power.

Jeffrey Archer

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

John Abbott

I don't think I'll ever be comfortable with the idea of being famous.

Alison Lohman

He who has God and everything else has no more than he who has God only.

C.S. Lewis

It is in doing things and not reading about them that results come about.

Stephen Richards

Thus every matter, if it is to be done well, calls for the attention of the whole person.

Martin Luther King Jr.

Honor is the moral conscience of the great.

D'Avenant

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Andrew Jackson

Society is a masked ball, where every one hides his real character, and reveals it by hiding

Ralph Waldo Emerson