Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

No free people ever existed, or can ever exist, without keeping the purse strings in their own hands. Where this is the case, they have a constitutional check upon the administration, which may thereby by brought into order without violence. But when such a power is not lodged in the people, oppression proceeds uncontrolled in its career, till the governed, transported into rage, seek redress in the midst of blood and confusion.

John Dickinson

Your faith in yourself is all you will ever have. Don't let anyone take it away from you, ever.

Holly Marie Combs

I believe that the Framers of the Constitution made their intent clear when they wrote the First Amendment. I believe they wanted to keep the new government from endorsing one religion over another, not erase the public consciousness or common faith.

Nick Rahall

Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process.

Mark Twain

Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.

H. R. Haweis

Wit is the appearance, the external flash of imagination. Thus its divinity, and the witty character of mysticism.

Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

My own early crusade for same-sex marriage, for example, is now mainstream gay politics. It wasn't when I started.

Andrew Sullivan

Experimentation is an active science.

Claude Bernard

My dad was like a stage mother he always pushed me to do what I wanted.

Jim Carrey

I'm a food addict, that's my downfall.

Valerie Bertinelli

No one can make us angry. People can say and do things to us but it is still up to us as individuals to do what we want with our emotions in response to those things.

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And queenly is the state she keeps, In beauty's lofty trust secure.

William Allen Butler