The wind of change is blowing through the continent. Whether we like it or not, this growth of national consciousness is a political fact.

It is the around-the-corner brand of hope that prompts people to action, while the distant hope acts as an opiate.

Eric Hoffer

My son, observe the postage stamp! Its usefulness depends upon its ability to stick to one thing until it gets there.

Henry Wheeler Shaw

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake . . . by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep. I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, fro

If a tree dies, plant another in its place.

Carolus Linnaeus

Native Americans are the original inhabitants of the land that now constitutes the United States. They have helped develop the fundamental principles of freedom of speech and separation of powers that form the foundation of the United States Government.

Joe Baca

Ill-health, of body or of mind, is defeat. Health alone is victory. Let all men, if they can manage it, contrive to be healthy!

Thomas Carlyle

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

Benjamin Franklin

Women need a reason to have sex. Men just need a place.

Billy Crystal

During my most recently controlled near-death experience, I got to interview William Shakespeare. We did not hit it off. He said the dialect I spoke was the ugliest English he had ever heard, fit to split the ears of groundlings. He asked if it had a name, and I said Indianapolis.

Kurt Vonnegut

Law in origin was merely a codification of the power of dominant groups, and did not aim at anything that to a modern man would appear to be justice

Bertrand Russell

I knew I could not cope with the future unless I was able to rediscover the past.

Gene Tierney

The great instrument of moral good is the imagination.

Percy Bysshe Shelley