The people always have some champion whom they set over them and nurse into greatness. This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs; when he first appears he is a protector.

The more that social democracy develops, grows, and becomes stronger, the more the enlightened masses of workers will take their own destinies, the leadership of their movement, and the determination of its direction into their own hands.

Rosa Luxemburg

We must walk consciously only part way toward our goal, and then leap in the dark to our success.

Henry David Thoreau

Whatever may be their use in civilized societies, mirrors are essential to all violent and heroic action.

Virginia Woolf

The history of Wall Street is inseparable from New York.

Ron Chernow

My country right or wrong; when right, to keep her right; when wrong, to put her right.

Carl Schurz

Vegetarianism is a link to perfection and peace.

River Phoenix

O, if thou car'st not whom I love alas, thou lov'st not me.

Donne, John

My point was that removing Saddam should not have been our highest priority. Fighting terrorism should have been our number one concern, followed by the Palestinian peace process.

Brent Scowcroft

I prayed for all his dreams to come true. I prayed that I would always be able to connect with him--even if I was no longer on earth.

Alexandra Adornetto

I was so sad from losing two of my dogs and my mother. I had this vision of all these animals sitting behind bars. They had no control and were scared. That's why I got into fostering and adopting animals out.

Linda Blair

I'm looking forward to the day when America will mature to the point that we are a color-blind society. I'm not so sure that in politics that will ever be reality, because politics has a way of separating us based on skin color.

J. C. Watts

The right to dissent is the only thing that makes life tolerable for a judge of an appellate court... the affairs of government could not be conducted by democratic standards without it.

William O Douglas