The greatest inspiration is often born of desperation.

There comes a time when the operation of the machine becomes so odious, makes you so sick at heart, that you can't take part, you can't even passively take part, and you've got to put your bodies upon the gears and upon the wheels, upon all the apparatus, and you've got to make it stop. And you've got to indicate to the people who run it, the people who own it, that unless you're free the machine will be prevented from working at all.

Mario Savio, Free Speech Movemen

Whatever can be noted historically can be found within history.

Martin Heidegger

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

William E. Gladstone

A monarch, when good, is entitled to the consideration which we accord to a pirate who keeps Sunday School between crimes; when bad, he is entitled to none at all.

Mark Twain

Religion without morality is a superstition and a curse, and morality without religion is impossible.

Mark Hopkins

Technology is driving the innovation. Technology is driving the creativity. Technology and the use of that is going to determine our workers' ability to compete in the 21st century global marketplace.

Ron Kind

The hippies wanted peace and love. We wanted Ferraris, blondes and switchblades.

Alice Cooper

If at first you don't succeed... so much for skydiving.

Henny Youngman

Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

George Bernard Shaw

Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces your emissions, but not your country's. Instead it allows somebody else to buy a bigger S.U.V. - because the total emissions are set by the cap.

James Hansen

A face to lose youth for, to occupy age With the dream of, meet death with.

Robert Browning

He that humbleth himself wishes to be exalted.

Friedrich Nietzsche