Of all the officers of the Government, those of the Department of Justice should be kept most free from any suspicion of improper action on partisan or factional grounds, so that there shall be gradually a growth, even though a slow growth, in the knowledge that the Federal courts and the representatives of the Federal Department of Justice insist on meting out even-handed justice to all.

My four older brothers were my favorite players. That's why I got into football and sports.

Tony Dorsett

It is very pious to say and prudent to affirm that the holy Bible can never speak untruth -- whenever its true meaning is understood. But I believe nobody will deny that it is often very abstruse, and may say things which are quite different from wha

Galileo Galilei

So thoroughly and sincerely are we compelled to live, reverencing our life, and denying the possibility of change. This is the only way, we say; but there are as many ways as there can be drawn radii from one centre.

Henry David Thoreau

I saw clearly that war was upon us when I learned that my young men had been secretly buying ammunition.

Chief Joseph

The practice of politics in the East may be defined by one word: dissimulation.

Benjamin Disraeli

It is easy to fly into a passion... anybody can do that, but to be angry with the right person to the right extent and at the right time and in the right way that is not easy.

Aristotle

Our libraries are valuable centers of education, learning and enrichment for people of all ages. In recent years, libraries have taken on an increasingly important role. today's libraries are about much more than books.

Jodi Rell

They that mistake life's accessories for life itself are like them that go too fast in a maze: their very haste confuses them

Seneca

It's shocking how little there is to do with tennis when you're just thinking about nothing except winning every point.

Andre Agassi

I'm just a public-schoolboy. I've got a degree. I'm from a middle-class family in Devon. I've got no story.

Chris Martin

All the great things have been denied and we live in an intricacy of new and local mythologies, political, economic, poetic, which are asserted with an ever-enlarging incoherence.

Wallace Stevens

Shall we make a new rule of life from tonight: always to try to be a little kinder than is necessary?Often paraphrased as: Always be a little kinder than necessary.

James Barrie, The Little White B