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I'm not a politician and don't want any part of politics.

Calvin Klein

Zeal for the public good is the characteristic of a man of honor and a gentleman, and must take the place of pleasures, profits and all other private gratification.

Sir Richard Steele

The Artist is he who detects and applies the law from observation of the works of Genius, whether of man or Nature. The Artisan is he who merely applies the rules which others have detected.

Henry David Thoreau

Jake was close to tears. In that moment he saw the world in its true light, as a place where nothing had ever been any good and nothing of significance done: no art worth a second look, no philosophy of the slightest appositeness, no law but served the state, no history that gave an inkling of how it had been and what had happened. And no love, only egotism, infatuation and lust.

Kingsley Amis

The steady discipline of intimate friendship with Jesus results in men becoming like Him.

Harry Emerson Fosdick

My husband, Jim, converted to Judaism just before our wedding.

Anita Diament

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last.

John Ruskin

Freedom has a price. Most people aren't willing to pay it.

Jack Kevorkian

A cheese may disappoint. It may be dull, it may be naive, it may be oversophisticated. Yet it remains cheese, milk's leap toward immortality.

Clifton Fadiman

The short words are best, and the old words are the best of all.

Winston Churchill

Tolerance is only another name for indifference.

W. Somerset Maugham

Our plans protect freedom and opportunity, and our blueprint is the Constitution of the United States.

Mitt Romney