Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.

Wisdom is the principal thing; therefore get wisdom; and with all your getting get understanding.

Bible

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Colin Powell

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

Dale Carnegie

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general, for it helps to form a habit of peace, and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

Elihu Root

I can look back at different times in my life when I felt I could not find my way out of whatever it was. I'm not necessarily talking about marriage, but I wanted to pack it in. I wanted to disappear. A lot of that has to do with being in the public eye.

Amy Grant

I want a house that has got over all its troubles; I don't want to spend the rest of my life bringing up a young and inexperienced house.

Jerome K. Jerome

God will not have his work made manifest by cowards

Ralph Waldo Emerson

I'm someone who believes the truth needs to be heard. And if I'm empowered with the truth, I'm not going to shut up.

Scott Ritter

I am human and let nothing human be alien to me.

Terence

Among politicians the esteem of religion is profitable the principles of it are troublesome.

Benjamin Whichcote

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

William Hague

Suffering is universal. It's the one thing Buddhists, Christians, and Muslims are all worried about

John Green