I have here stated my purpose according to my view of official duty; and I intend no modification of my oft-expressed personal wish that all men every where could be free.

Opinions are formed in a process of open discussion and public debate, and where no opportunity for the forming of opinions exists, there may be moods

Hannah Arendt, On Revolution, ch

Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Elbert Hubbard

He who knows the truth and does not speak it is a miserable coward.

Julius Streicher

Art is beauty, the perpetual invention of detail, the choice of words, the exquisite care of execution.

Theophile Gautier

We believe that peace is not just signed papers, but rather a contract between generations for the building of a more promising and less threatening future.

King Hussein I

It ain't what you don't know that gets you into trouble. It's what you know for sure that just ain't so.

Mark Twain

Power? It's like a Dead Sea fruit. When you achieve it, there is nothing there.

Harold MacMillan

So much perfection argues rottenness somewhere.

Beatrice Potter Webb

Perhaps he was a bit different from other people, but what really sympathetic person is not a little mad?

Isadora Duncan

What do girls do who haven't any mothers to help them through their troubles?

Louisa May Alcott

The choice is not between violence and nonviolence but between nonviolence and nonexistence.

Martin Luther King Jr.