It's not just Bin Laden or just those that are involved in the counterterrorism effort. We've gotta cast the net broader than that. But I think it's a - very special tribute that we all owe to the bravery and courage of the men and women in the intelligence and military business who performed so well to finally get it done.

There is no single truth in a world ruled by many political parties.

Toba Beta

A mere trifle consoles us, for a mere trifle distresses us.

Blaise Pascal

The stone unhewn and cold Becomes a living mould, The more the marble wastes The more the statue grows.

Michelangelo Buonarroti

Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.

William Congreve

The oppression of any people for opinion's sake has rarely had any other effect than to fix those opinions deeper, and render them more important.

Hosea Ballou

I say this as a Democrat, for whom the Republican domination of government threatens many values that I hold to be important to America's role as a light among nations. But there are no values that matter to me that will not be gravely endangered if we lose this war.

Orson Scott Card

I believe in the supreme worth of the individual and in his right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

John D. Rockefeller

Tis God gives skill, But not without men's hands: He could not make Antonio Stradivari's violins Without Antonio.

George Eliot

Consult. To seek another's approval of a course already decided on.

Ambrose Bierce

Eternity -- waste of time.

Natalie Clifford Barney

Circus, n. A place where horses, ponies and elephants are permitted to see men, women and children acting the fool.

Ambrose Bierce

There is one evident, indubitable manifestation of the Divinity, and that is the laws of right which are made known to the world through Revelation.

Leo Tolstoy