What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

J. C. Macaulay

When contemplating General Eisenhower winning the Presidential election, Truman said, Hell sit here, and hell say, Do this! Do that! And nothing will happen. Poor Ikeit wont be a bit like the Army. Hell find it very frustrating.

Harry S Truman

I don't know what to say to that, but I have to agree with Johnny that, yeah, we do touch upon things that most men would rather not admit: That we feel pain, we cry, get sad and sometimes don't deal well with disappointment.

Peter Steele

The punishment which the wise suffer, who refuse to take part in government, is to live under the government of worse men

Plato

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it, namely, that, in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to attain.

Mark Twain

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end.

Benjamin Disraeli

A toothache, or a violent passion, is not necessarily diminished by our knowledge of its causes, its character, its importance or insignificance.

T. S. Eliot

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Dwight D Eisenhower

Politics is an act of faith you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

George McGovern

If you can feed your family, give them an education, then you are a success.

Jami Gertz

Art is a harmony parallel with nature.

Paul Cezanne

Keep cool anger is not an argument.

Daniel Webster