Therefore, when I considered this carefully, the contempt which I had to fear because of the novelty and apparent absurdity of my view, nearly induced me to abandon utterly the work I had begun.

Gentlemen, I fervently trust that before long the principle of arbitration may win such confidence as to justify its extension to a wider field of international differences.

Henry Campbell-Bannerman

That's what I'd like to do on the President's Council. Make sports and athletics available to every youth in America, not just one day a week like it was for me, but every day.

Florence Griffith Joyner

The regeneration of society is the regeneration of society by individual education.

Jean de la Bruyere

For the Angel of Death spread his wings on the blast,And breathed in the face of the foe as he pass'd;And the eyes of the sleepers wax'd deadly and chill,And their hearts but once heaved, and for ever grew still!

Lord (George Gordon) Byron, Dest

Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

James Russell Lowell

A fool's paradise is a wise man's hell!

Thomas Fuller

Our authorities leave us no doubt that the trust lodged with the oligarchy was sometimes abused, but it certainly ought not to be regarded as a mere usurpation or engine of tyranny.

Henry James Sumner Maine

He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.

Harold Wilson

Someone once told me that religion is like a knife: You can stab someone with it, or you can slice bread with it.

Vera Farmiga

There is small danger of being starved in our land of plenty; but the danger of being stuffed is imminent.

Sarah Josepha Hale, Traits of Am

Mental toughness is to physical as four is to one.

Bob Knight

Never to lie is to have no lock to your door, you are never wholly alone.

Elizabeth Bowen