All the miseries and evils which men suffer from vice, crime, ambition, injustice, oppression, slavery and war, proceed from their despising or neglecting the precepts contained in the Bible.

To say that authority, whether secular or religious, supplies no ground for morality is not to deny the obvious fact that it supplies a sanction.

Sir Alfred Jules Ayer

There is little less trouble in governing a private family than a whole kingdom.

Michel de Montaigne

We lost because we told ourselves we lost.

Leo Tolstoy

That though the radiance which was once so bright be now forever taken from my sight. Though nothing can bring back the hour of splendor in the grass, glory in the flower. We will grieve not, rather find strength in what remains behind.

William Wordsworth

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.

Jonathan Swift

There is no wealth but life.

John Ruskin

Whenever the people are well informed, they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights.

Thomas Jefferson

The walls are the publishers of the poor.

Eduardo Galeano

Chaos in the midst of chaos isn't funny, but chaos in the midst of order is.

Steve Martin

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

Napoleon Bonaparte

A man's country is not a certain area of land, of mountains, rivers, and woods, but it is a principle; and patriotism is loyalty to that principle.

George William Curtis

What we say is the truth is what everybody accepts.... I mean, psychiatry: it's the latest religion. We decide what's right and wrong. We decide who's crazy or not. I'm in trouble here. I'm losing my faith.

Madeleine Stowe