Religion is not merely the opium of the masses, it's the cyanide.

The officers of Congress, may come upon you now, fortified with all the terrors of paramount federal authority. Excisemen taxmen may come in multitudes; for the limitation of their numbers no man knows. They may, unless the general government be restrained ... go into your cellars and rooms, and search, ransack, and measure, everything you eat, drink, and wear.

Patrick Henry

Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther

I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last; a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side o

But people didn't have to pay as much attention to the awful truth. As the living legend of the cruel tyrant in the city and the gentle holy man in the jungle grew, so, too, did the happiness of the people grow. They were all employed full time as actors in a play they understood, that any human being anywhere could understand and applaud.

Kurt Vonnegut

We know that there are significant health benefits from consuming more fruits and vegetables, and that's an opportunity for us to sort of move away from some of the meals that we've been preparing in the past.

Tom Vilsack

I would like nuclear fusion to become a practical power source. It would provide an inexhaustible supply of energy, without pollution or global warming.

Stephen Hawking

My mom always said that if the Protestants catch a Catholic in their church, they feed them to the Jews.

Kate O'Brien

Trying is the internalization of the failure of omnipotence.

Brian O'Shaugnessy

Once we know our weaknesses they cease to do us any harm.

G. C. (Georg Christoph) Lichtenb

Weapons are an important factor in war, but not the decisive factor; it is people, not things, that are decisive. The contest of strength is not only a contest of military and economic power, but also a contest of human power and morale. Military and economic power is necessarily wielded by people.

Mao Zedong

He full of bashfulness and truth, Loved much, hoped little, and desired nought.

Torquato Tasso

If there is anything disagreeable going on men are always sure to get out of it

Jane Austen