Freedom is the last, best hope of earth.

There is no jewel in the world comparable to learning; no learning so excellent both for Prince and subject, as knowledge of laws; and no knowledge of any laws so necessary for all estates and for all causes, concerning goods, lands or life, as the common laws of England.

Sir Edward Coke

You can't trust any bugger further than you can throw him, and there's nothing you can do about it, so let's have a drink

Terry Pratchett

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to be the average man.

W. R. [William Ralph] Inge, Outs

Any 20 year-old who isn't a liberal doesn't have a heart, and any 40 year-old who isn't a conservative doesn't have a brain.

Sir Winston Churchill

This is the true joy in life - being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

George Bernard Shaw

Something was still there, that something that distinguishes an artist from a performer: the revealing of self. Here I be. Not for long, but here I be. In sensing her mortality, we sensed our own.

Studs Terkel

The whole world is divided for me into two parts: one is she, and there is all happiness, hope, light; the other is where she is not, and there is dejection and darkness...

Leo Tolstoy

Banality is a symptom of non-communication. Men hide behind their clich?s.

Eugene Ionesco

If you have to forecast, forecast often.

Edgar R. Fiedler

While tributes to Americans who had lost their lives in battle had been held in a number of towns across the nation, one of the more well-known stories about the beginnings of Memorial Day is the story about General John Logan.

John Linder

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it

Terry Pratchett

I wish... I wish he wasn't quite so ashamed of me. And if he could stop feeling so ashamed of himself, then maybe we might stand a chance.

Malorie Blackman