Those rights, then, which God and nature have established, and are therefore called natural rights, such as life and liberty, need not the aid of human laws to be more effectually invested in every man than they are; neither do they receive any additional strength when declared by the municipal laws to be inviolate. On the contrary, no human legislature has power to abridge or destroy them, unless the owner shall himself commit some act that amounts to a forfeiture.

To conceal anything from those to whom I am attached, is not in my nature. I can never close my lips where I have opened my heart.

Charles Dickens

I'm grateful to God for His bountiful gifts... He gave me courage and faith in myself.

Loretta Young

Good writers are those who keep the language efficient. That is to say, keep it accurate, keep it clear.

Ezra Pound

A strong nation, like a strong person, can afford to be gentle, firm, thoughtful, and restrained. It can afford to extend a helping hand to others. It's a weak nation, like a weak person, that must behave with bluster and boasting and rashness and other signs of insecurity.

Jimmy Carter

A revolution is not a dinner party, or writing an essay, or painting a picture, or doing embroidery; it cannot be so refined, so leisurely and gentle, so temperate, kind, courteous, restrained and magnanimous. A revolution is an insurrection, an act of violence by which one class overthrows another.

Mao Zedong

Our national flower is the concrete cloverleaf.

Lewis Mumford

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

Theodore Bikel

A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that is idle.

Khalil Gibran

How many young hearts have revealed the fact that what they had been trained to imagine the highest earthly felicity was but the beginning of care, disappointment, and sorrow, and often led to the extremity of mental and physical suffering.

Catharine Esther Beecher

What we have done for ourselves alone dies with us; what we have done for others and the world remains and is immortal.

Albert Pike, (attributed)

This film 'Hero' talks about the peace of Chinese people.

Jet Li

Generosity during life is a very different thing from generosity in the hour of death; one proceeds from genuine liberality and benevolence, the other from pride or fear.

Horace Mann