Labor, under their current leadership, want to be the Downtown Abbey party when it comes to educational opportunity. They think working class children should stick to the station in life they were born into - they should be happy to be recognized for being good with their hands and not presume to get above themselves.

In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.

George Bancroft

The merit of originality is not novelty, it is sincerity. The believing man is the original man.

Thomas Carlyle

Your tale sir, would cure deafness

William Shakespeare

Not what happens to youBut how you accept itIs of paramount importance.

Sri Chinmoy

There's nothing written in the Bible, Old or New testament, that says, If you believe in Me, you ain't going to have no troubles.

Ray Charles

There is no such thing as a self-made man. You will reach your goals only with the help of others.

George Shinn

Truth resides in every human heart,and one has to search for it there,and to be guided by truth as one sees it.But no one has a right to coerce othersto act according to his own view of truth.

Mahatma Gandhi

Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence ... too sacred to be touched. They ascribe to the men of the preceding age a wisdom more than human, and suppose what they did to be beyond amendment.

Thomas Jefferson

I have yet to be completely submerged in reality, for drowning in the sky.

Kellie Elmore

You can hold yourself back from the sufferings of the world, that is something you are free to do and it accords with your nature, but perhaps this very holding back is the one suffering you could avoid.

Franz Kafka, The Collected Aphor

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

Rand Paul

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

Phillip E. Johnson