There is a strong tendency in the United States to rally round the flag and their troops, no matter how mistaken the war.

Pride that dines on vanity, sups on contempt

Benjamin Franklin

Remember that in the end, the universe responds to our emotions, not to our words.

Stephen Richards

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Jeremy Bentham

As a woman I have no country. As a woman I want no country. As a woman, my country is the whole world.

Virginia Woolf

It is said that power corrupts, but actually it's more true that power attracts the corruptible. The sane are usually attracted by other things than power.

David Brin

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Abraham Lincoln

It doesn't matter who my father was; it matters who I remember he was.

Anne Sexton

My entire life has been an attempt to get back to the kind of feelings you have on a field. The sense of brotherhood, the esprit de corps, the focus - there being no past or future, just the ball. As trite as it sounds, I was happiest playing ball.

David Duchovny

Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good and for this reason the good has rightly been declared to be that at which all things aim.

Aristotle

We never shall have any more time we have, and we have always had, all the time there is.

Thomas A. Bennett

Each has his own happiness in his hands, as the artist handles the rude clay he seeks to reshape it into a figure; yet it is the same with this art as with all others: only the capacity for it is innate; the art itself must be learned and painstaking

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Conventionality is not morality. Self-righteousness is not religion. To attack the first is not to assail the last. To pluck the mask from the face of the Pharisee is not to lift an impious hand to the Crown of Thorns.

Charlotte Bronte