You fail to recognize that it matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be!

Great hopes make great men.

Thomas Fuller

I have looked into your eyes with my eyes. I have put my heart near your heart.

Pope John XXIII

Part of the American dream is to live long and die young. Only those Americans who are willing to die for their country are fit to live.

General Douglas MacArthur

Home is the place where we are treated the best, but grumble the most.

Source Unknown

No one is offended at not seeing everything; but one does not like to be mistaken, and that perhaps arises from the fact that man naturally cannot see everything, and that naturally he cannot err in the side he looks at, since the perceptions of our senses are always true.

Blaise Pascal

Thy duty do? rejoined the voice, Ah, do it, do it, and rejoice; But shalt thou then, when all is done, Enjoy a love, embrace a beauty Like these, that may be seen and won In life, whose course will then be run; Or wilt thou be where there is none? I know not, I will do my duty.

Arthur Hugh Clough

To live without killing is a thought which could electrify the world, if men were only capable of staying awake long enough to let the idea soak in.

Henry Miller, The Henry Miller R

The moment a mere numerical superiority by either states or voters in this country proceeds to ignore the needs and desires of the minority, and for their own selfish purpose or advancement, hamper or oppress that minority, or debar them in any way from equal privileges and equal rights -- that moment will mark the failure of our constitutional system.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

Facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.

Mark Twain

Books and all forms of writing are terror to those who wish to suppress the truth.

Wole Soyinka

Mystical explanations are thought to be deep; the truth is that they are not even shallow.

Friedrich Nietzsche

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

Michel de Montaigne