In our modern world of interdependent nations, hardly any state can wage war successfully without raising loans and buying war materials of every kind in the markets of other nations.

As there is no worldly gain without some loss so there is no worldly loss without some gain.

Quarius

What we have found in this country, and maybe we're more aware of it now, is one problem that we've had, even in the best of times, and that is the people who are sleeping on the grates, the homeless, you might say, by choice.

Ronald Reagan

What pursuit is more elegant than that of collecting the ignominies of our nature and transfixing them for show, each on the bright pin of a polished phrase?

Logan Pearsall Smith

By the fulfillment of my legal and moral duty I think I have earned punishment just as little as the tens of thousands of dutiful German officials who have now been imprisoned only because they carried out their duties.

Wilhelm Frick

My mom is the backbone not just of my family but of many families.

Shia LaBeouf

He is not great who is not greatly good.

William Shakespeare

Any sufficiently advanced bureaucracy is indistinguishable from molasses.

Source Unknown

If you wish to be loved; Love!

Seneca (Seneca the Elder)

When I was a child there were many witches, and they bewitched both cattle and men, especially children

Martin Luther King Jr.

Once you become famous, there is nothing left to become but infamous.

Don Johnson

Galileo, perhaps more than any other single person, was responsible for the birth of modern science.

Stephen Hawking

...it is well know that a vital ingredient of success is not knowing that what you're attempting can't be done.

Terry Pratchett