The greatest meliorator of the world is selfish, huckstering Trade.

The hour of emancipation is advancing... this enterprise is for the young; for those who can follow it up, and bear it through to its consummation. It shall have all my prayers, and these are the only weapons of an old man.

Thomas Jefferson

Government will not fail to employ education, to strengthen its hands, and perpetuate its institutions.

William Godwin

A trip to space is a big motivator to give up some things in your personal life. Obviously, you can't give up everything and you don't want to.

Mark Kelly

Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved.

Aristotle

Fashion is an imposition, a reign on freedom.

Golda Meir

If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days together, absolutely lay aside all good breeding, their intimacy will soon degenerate into a coarse familiarity, infallibly productive of contempt or disgust.

Lord Chesterfield

ABORT! ABORT!Isabelle, are you insane?-Alec

Cassandra Clare

Red sky at night, the city's alight.

Terry Pratchett

Imam Rauf and his backers have every legal right to build their extravagant Islamic center within the lethal radius of Ground Zero. But the rest of us have the right to question why they insist on doing so.

Ralph Peters

If you should put even a little on a little and should do this often, soon this would become big.

Hesiod

With your talents and industry, with science, and that stedfast honesty which eternally pursues right, regardless of consequences, you may promise yourself every thingbut health, without which there is no happiness. An attention to health then should take place of every other object. The time necessary to secure this by active exercises, should be devoted to it in preference to every other pursuit.

Thomas Jefferson

For the sword outwears its sheath, and the soul wears out the breast. And the heart must pause to breathe, and love itself have rest.

Lord (George Gordon) Byron