How is freedom measured, in individuals as in nations? By the resistance which has to be overcome, by the effort it costs to stay aloft. One would have to seek the highest type of free man where the greatest resistance is constantly being overcome: five steps from tyranny, near the threshold of the danger of servitude.

Suffering can bend

John Green

You deserve a longer letter than this; but it is my unhappy fate seldom to treat people so well as they deserve.

Jane Austen

All human things are subject to decay,And, when Fate summons, monarchs must obey;This Flecknoe found, who like Augustus youngWas call'd to empire, and had govern'd long:In prose and verse, was own'd, without disputeThrough all the realms of nonsense, absolute.

John Dryden, Mac Flecknoe

It is often necessary to know how to obey a woman in order sometimes to have the right to command her.

Victor Hugo

American freedom consists largely in talking nonsense.

Edward W. Howe

Few things tend more to alienate friendship than a want of punctuality in our engagements. I have known the breach of a promise to dine or sup to break up more than one intimacy.

William Hazlitt

There are no dreams too large, no innovation unimaginable and no frontiers beyond our reach.

John S. Herrington

I was a wild, mischievous kid, and I had tremendous imagination. Any experience I had, I'd try to reenact it.

Adrien Brody

Maturity begins to grow when you can sense your concern for others outweighing your concern for yourself.

John MacNaughton

There was never going to be a right time for a band that was still recording and had health in its environment, had made a very good record and was playing well.

Peter Garrett

There is nothing more unaesthetic than a policeman.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position.

Mark Twain