If a thousand men were not to pay their tax-bills this year, that would not be a violent and bloody measure, as it would be to pay them, and enable the State to commit violence and shed innocent blood. This is, in fact, the definition of a peaceable revolution, if any such is possible.

That some should be rich, shows that others may become rich, and, hence, is just encouragement to industry and enterprise.

Abraham Lincoln

Education alone can conduct us to that enjoyment which is, at once, best in quality and infinite in quantity.

Horace Mann

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

Benjamin Franklin

The basis of effective government if public confidence.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

We live under continual threat of two equally fearful, but seemingly opposed, destinies: unremitting banality and inconceivable terror. It is fantasy, served out in large rations by the popular arts, which allows most people to cope with these twin specters.

Susan Sontag

Golf isn't just my business, it's my hobby.

Lee Trevino

I went to the museum where they had all the heads and arms from the statues that are in all the other museums.

Steven Wright

I guess you kind of got to realize that once you in a marriage, whatever it is, you gotta deal with it. Not necessarily that you got to accept it, but you have to deal with it and try your best to make it work for you, for the both of you.

Faith Evans

Be yourself, who else is better qualified?

Frank J. Giblin

Some people prefer to keep their foot in a bog so they don't risk falling over.

P.K. Shaw

I would not have imagined that love himself would have such a fatal blow this.

Valentinno

It is not doing the thing we like to do, but liking the thing we have to do, that makes life blessed.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe