If military movies were automatically successful we'd make nothing but military movies. But seriously, patriotism is one thing that all Americans have in common.

However energetically society in general may strive to make all the citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of each individual will always make him try to escape from the common level, and he will form some inequality somewhere to his own profit.

Alexis de Tocqueville

I live in company with a body, a silent companion, exacting and eternal. He it is who notes that individuality which is the seal of the weakness of our race. My soul has wings, but the brutal jailer is strict.

Eugene Delacroix

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died.

Julien Benda

No great advance has been made in science, politics, or religion without controversy.

Lyman Beecher

All human joys are swift of wing, For heaven doth so allot it; That when you get an easy thing, You find you haven't got it.

Eugene Field

Ours is the only country deliberately founded on a good idea.

John Gunther

The artist has one function--to affirm and glorify life.

W. Edward Brown

In married life, three is company, and two is none.

Oscar Wilde

It is more profitable for me to have a team that is in contention for most of the season but finishes about fourth. A team like that will draw well enough during the first part of the season to show a profit for the year, and you don't have to give the players raises when they don't win.http://www.baseballlibrary.com/baseballlibrary/ballplayers/M/Mack_Connie.stm

Connie Mack

Most people would rather give than get affection.

Aristotle

The only time you don't fail is the last time you try anything -- and it works.

William Strong

Somebody asked me about the current choice we're being given in the presidential election. I said, Well, it's like two of the scariest movies I can imagine.

Dean Koontz