A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

And as it the federal district is to be appropriated to this use with the consent of the State ceding it; as the State will no doubt provide in the compact for the rights, and the consent of the citizens inhabiting it; as the inhabitants will find sufficient inducements of interest to become willing parties to the cession; as they will have had their voice in the election of the Government which is to exercise authority over them; as a municipal Legislature for local purposes, derived from their own suffrages, will of course be allowed them; and as the authority of the Legislature of the State, and of the inhabitants of the ceded part of it, to concur in the cession, will be derived from the whole people of the State, in their adoption of the Constitution, every imaginable objection seems to be obviated.

James Madison

Love is an energy which exists of itself. It is its own value.

Thornton Wilder

I say, when life gives you a lemon, wing it right back and add some lemons of your own!

Bill Watterson

Let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. Isaiah 22:13

Bible

An artist needn't be a clergyman or a churchwarden, but he certainly must have a warm heart for his fellow men.

Vincent Van Gogh

The boughs, without becoming detached from the trunk grow away from it.

Victor Hugo

All life is in vain, for Death makes a nonsense of pain.

Gasmaskman

By letting it go it all gets done. The world is won by those who let it go. But when you try and try. The world is beyond the winning.

LaoTzu

Love yourself. Forgive yourself. Be true to yourself. How you treat yourself sets the standard for how others will treat you.

Steve Maraboli

It seems to me that it is these extremists who are advocating a soft approach. Their oversimplifications and their baseless generalizations reflect the softness of those who cannot bear to face the burdens of a continuing struggle against a powerful and resourceful enemy. A truly tough approach, in my judgment, is one which accepts the challenge of communism with the courage and determination to meet it with every instrumentality of foreign policypolitical and economic as well as military, and with the willingness to see the struggle through as far into the future as may be necessary. Those who seek to meet the challengeor, in reality, to evade itby bold adventures abroad and witch hunts at home are the real devotees of softnessthe softness of seeking escape from painful realities by resort to illusory panaceas.

J. William Fulbright

Short judgments make long friends.

Proverb

Man is only truly great when he acts from his passions.

Benjamin Disraeli