I hope to have communion with the people, that is the most important thing.

Every diminution of the public burdens arising from taxation gives to individual enterprise increased power and furnishes to all the members of our happy confederacy new motives for patriotic affection and support.

Andrew Jackson

Love is the only freedom in the world because it so elevates the spirit that the laws of humanity and the phenomena of nature do not alter its course

Kahlil Gibran

The world does not speak. Only we do. The world can, once we have programmed ourselves with a language, cause us to hold beliefs. But it cannot propose a language for us to speak. Only other human beings can do that.

Richard Rorty

Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.

Sir Winston Churchill

To give aid to every poor man is far beyond the reach and power of every man. Care of the poor is incumbent on society as a whole.

Baruch Spinoza

Obedience is the mother of success and is wedded to safety.

Aeschylus

History is a pack of lies about events that never happened told by people who weren't there.

George Santayana

Don't trust somebody that don't have a troubled period.

Benjamin Walker

My uniform experience has convinced me that there is no other God than Truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

Elton Trueblood

Religion has to stay in the heart, not in politics. It is private.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

There is no racial or ethnic involvement in Thanksgiving, and people who may be very distant from the Christian system can see the beauty and the positive spirit that comes from the holiday.

John Clayton