These, then, will be some of the features of democracy... it will be, in all likelihood, an agreeable, lawless, parti-colored commonwealth, dealing with all alike on a footing of equality, whether they be really equal or not.

Few expected very much of Franklin Roosevelt on Inauguration Day in 1933. Like Barack Obama seventy-six years later, he was succeeding a failed Republican president, and Americans had voted for change. What that change might be Roosevelt never clearly said, probably because he himself didn't know.

Russell Baker

I wish we would all remember that being American is not just about the freedom we have it is about those who gave it to us.

Mike Huckabee

One feels even in the midst of the traffic, or waking at night, Clarissa was positive, a particular hush, or solemnity; an indescribable pause; a suspense before Big Ben strikes. There! Out it boomed. First a warning, musical; then the hour, irrevocable. The leaden circles dissolved in the air. Such fools we are, she thought, crossing Victoria Street. For Heaven only knows why one loves it so, how one sees it so, making it up, building it round one, tumbling it, creating it every moment afresh; but the veriest frumps, the most dejected of miseries sitting on doorsteps (drink their downfall) do the same; can't be dealt with, she felt positive, by Acts of Parliament for that very reason: they love life. In people's eyes, in the swing, tramp, and trudge; in the bellow and the uproar; the carriages, motor cars, omnibuses, vans, sandwich men shuffling and swinging; brass bands; barrel organs; in the triumph and the jingle and the strange high singing of some aeroplane overhead was what she loved; life; London; this moment in June.

Virginia Woolf

Anything you can do, or dream you do, begin it: boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

I had been found in a mud puddle at 4:30 in the morning.

Lance Loud

Freedom cannot be given... It can only be taken away.

David Allan Coe

The coldest word was once a glowing new metaphor

Thomas Carlyle

There are plenty of problems in the world, and doubtless climate change - or whatever the currently voguish phrase for it all is - certainly is one of them. But it's low on my list.

P. J. O'Rourke

For me, love is happiness and inspiration.

Leona Lewis

Change alone is unchanging.

Heraclitus

As a general rule, the most successful man in life is the man who has the best information.

Benjamin Disraeli

Wide is the gate and broad is the path that leads to destruction and many go that way

Mary Doria Russell