A great power has to have the discipline not only to go when necessary but to know when not to go. Getting involved in ethnic, religious civil wars is a recipe for disaster.

If the people don't want to come out to the park, nobody's gonna stop them.

Yogi Berra

Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

Fran, A Letter to Myself

I have lived in this world just long enough to look carefully the second time into things that I am the most certain of the first time.

Josh Billings

Man...is a tame or civilized animal never the less, he requires proper instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the most divine and most civilized but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is the most savage of earthly creatures.

Plato

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Marco Rubio

Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.

Neale Donald Walsch

Time passed quickly. Constant did not move.

Kurt Vonnegut

I do love nothing in the world so well as you- is not that strange?

William Shakespeare

I agree with just about everyone in the reform debate when they say 'If you like what you have, you should be able to keep it.' But the truth is that none of the health reform bills making their way through Congress actually delivers on that promise.

Ron Wyden

We are the creative force of our life, and through our own decisions rather than our conditions, if we carefully learn to do certain things, we can accomplish those goals.

Stephen Covey

If at first you don't succeed; you are running about average.

M. H. Alderson

The Silent majority is silent, and that is best for everybody.

Gerhard Kocher