Strength was the virtue of paganism; obedience is the virtue of Christianity.

Let us be moral. Let us contemplate existence.

Charles Dickens

The government is us; we are the government, you and I.

Theodore Roosevelt

I do not believe that the men who served in uniform in Vietnam have been given the credit they deserve. It was a difficult war against an unorthodox enemy.

William Westmoreland

How can you tell somebody whose is pursuing happiness that they're somehow not American when that was the very first promise that America made?

Dan Savage

Poetry is so vital to us until school spoils it.

Russell Baker

On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.

Martin Sheen

If one desires a change, one must be that change before that change can take place.

Gita Bellin

Did Stanton say I was a damned fool? Then I dare say I must be one, for Stanton is generally right and he always says what he means.

Abraham Lincoln

Success is never final and failure is never fatal. It's courage that counts.

Jules Ellinger

The half is greater than the whole.

Hesiod

One simple way to keep organizations from becoming cancerous might be to rotate all jobs on a regular, frequent and mandatory basis, including the leadership positions.

Robert Shea

But real action is in silent moments. The epochs of our life are not in the visible facts of our choice of a calling, our marriage, our acquisition of an office, and the like, but in a silent thought by the wayside as we walk; in a thought which revises our entire manner of life, and says,

Ralph Waldo Emerson