Institutions -- government, churches, industries, and the like -- have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom; and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.

If I have done the public any service, it is due to my patient thought.

Sir Isaac Newton

State governments generate less revenue in a recession. As state leaders struggle to make up for lost revenue, legislatures tend to cut funding for higher education. Colleges, in turn, answer these funding cuts with tuition hikes.

Arne Duncan

Having been blacklisted from working in television during the McCarthy era, I know the harm of government using private corporations to intrude into the lives of innocent Americans. When government uses the telephone companies to create massive databases of all our phone calls it has gone too far.note: May 22, 2006, Terkel, along with other plaintiffs, filed a suit in federal district court against AT&T to stop them from giving customer phone records to the National Security Agency without a court order.

Studs Terkel

I grew up in Baltimore. And yes, I am a big sports fan, especially when it comes to my local teams.

Josh Charles

The poetry from the eighteenth century was prose the prose from the seventeenth century was poetry.

David Hare

I just finished my homework fast, I was bored to death. There wasn't 500 channels so there was a thing for a librarian to teach a kid like me about reading. I started reading early and I read all the time, because I love it.

Harvey Weinstein

I have loved justice and hated iniquity: therefore I die in exile.

Pope Gregory VII

You're not Forsaken. You're Chosen for Purpose.

Vanessa Richardson

Mother's arms are made of tenderness, and sweet sleep blesses the child who lies within.

Victor Hugo

When I get up in the morning and put on a pink or a green wig, I see myself as a piece of animation. It lets me be the person I want to be, a person who's not embarrassed to have fun.

Nicki Minaj

“And now that you don’t have to be perfect, you can be good.”

John Steinbeck

Beauty is the mark God sets on virtue. Every natural action is graceful; every heroic act is also decent, and causes the place and the bystanders to shine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson