The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time, with the blood of patriots and tyrants. It is its natural manure.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

Samuel Johnson

It is human nature to instinctively rebel at obscurity or ordinariness.

Taylor Caldwell

Will you tell me my fault, frankly as to yourself, for I had rather wince, than die. Men do not call the surgeon to commend the bone, but to set it, Sir.

Emily Dickinson

Without ambition, no goal can be met.

Kya Aliana

The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone?

Jesse Ball

No man has a right to fix the boundary of the march of a nation; no man has a right to say to his country, Thus far shalt thou go and no further.

Charles Stewart Parnell

How many of us have conflicts with someone else- and how many of us pray for that person? We have individuals with whom we are competitive, or whom we dislike or have a quarrel with; but very few of us have true enemies in the martial sense. And yet if Lincoln could pray fervently- and contemporary reports indicate he did- for the people who were opposing him, how much more can we do for someone we just find a little irritating?

John Wooden

Good temper is an estate for life.

William Hazlitt

Women are much more sensitive. We know that emotionally but their organs respond to the same degree.

Mehmet Oz

My mother inspired me to treat others as I would want to be treated regardless of age, race or financial status.

Tommy Hilfiger

Happiness is like a butterfly: the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit softly on your shoulder.

Henry David Thoreau

Without music, life would be an error. The German imagines even God singing songs

Friedrich Nietzsche