If I had to make a list of six books which were to be preserved when all others were destroyed, I would certainly put Gulliver's Travels among them.

The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colours breaking through.

Alexis de Tocqueville

There is hardly such a thing as a war in which it makes no difference who wins. Nearly always one side stands more of less for progress, the other side more or less for reaction.

George Orwell

I have written too much history to have faith in it and if anyone thinks I'm wrong, I am inclined to agree with him.

Henry Adams

If we do not succeed, then we run the risk of failure.

Dan Quayle

To fight fear, act. To increase fear -- wait, put off postpone.

Dr. David Schwartz

The only real security is not in owning or possessing, not in demanding or expecting, not in hoping, even. Security in a relationship lies neither in looking back to what it was, nor forward to what it might be, but living in the present and accepting it as it is now.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

You know the good part about all those executions in Texas? Fewer Texans.

George Carlin

The idea of strictly minding our own business is moldy rubbish. Who could be so selfish?

Myrtle Barker

Looking back over a decade one sees the ideal of a university become a myth, a vision, a meadow lark among the smoke stacks. Yet perhaps it is there at Princeton, only more elusive than under the skies of the Prussian Rhineland or Oxfordshire; or perhaps some men come upon it suddenly and possess it, while others wander forever outside. Even these seek in vain through middle age for any corner of the republic that preserves so much of what is fair, gracious, charming and honorable in American life.

Source Unknown

The difference between a mountain and a molehill is your perspective.

Al Neuharth

I admit it: I had fun watching right-wingers go wild as health reform finally became law.

Paul Krugman

Our civil rights have no dependence upon our religious opinions more than our opinions in physics or geometry.

Thomas Jefferson