A successful social technique consists perhaps in finding unobjectionable means for individual self-assertion.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

Jon Meacham

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government -- he promised Dad he'd go straight.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

A democracy is a government in the hands of men of low birth, no property, and vulgar employment

Aristotle

with his customary crooked smile, are just too unlikely to dwell upon.

Cassandra Clare

It's amazing how good getting up and moving makes you feel.

Paula Deen

Banks introduced the installment plan. The disappearance of cash and the coming of the credit card changed the shape of life in the United States.

Jerzy Kosinski

Rich gifts wax poor when givers prove unkind.

William Shakespeare

It does not matter how many tumbles you have in this life, so long as you do not get dirty when you tumble; it is only the people who have to stop to be washed and made clean, who must necessarily lose the race. And I can assure you that there is the greatest practical benefit in making a few failures early in life. You learn that which is of inestimable importance

Thomas Henry Huxley, On Medical

Suit the action to the word, the word to the action.

William Shakespeare

The darkest day of any man's life is when he sits down to plan how to get money without earning it.

Horace Greeley

What we really are matters more than what other people think of us.

Jawaharlal Nehru

During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it.

Captain J. G. Stedman