The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.

Freedom means you are unobstructed in living your life as you choose. Anything less is a form of slavery.

Wayne Dyer

The principle that certain sins should not receive the Church's testimony of forgiveness was probably no novelty at all, but had been applied in various churches perhaps, however, with no strict consistency.

Robert Rainy

People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them.

Edmund Burke

The essence of the beautiful is unity in variety.

Felix Mendelssohn

Patience is the support of weakness; impatience the ruin of strength

Charles Caleb Colton

Any affectation whatsoever in dress implies, in my mind, a flaw in the understanding.

Lord Chesterfield

What we heard today was not fiscal leadership from our Commander-in-Chief, what we heard today was a political broadside from our Campaigner-in-Chief.

Paul Ryan

It is dangerous sending a young man who is beautiful to Oxford.

Dudley Ryder

Intellectually I know that America is no better than any other country; emotionally I know she is better than every other country.

Sinclair Lewis

To plunder, to slaughter, to steal, these things they misname empire and where they make a wilderness, they call it peace.

Tacitus

Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.

Philip Roth

To live well is to work well, to show a good activity.

Thomas Aquinas