It is not by muscle speed or physical dexterity that great things are achieved but by reflection force of character and judgment.
Marcus Tullius Cicero
Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Despotism is a long crime.
Victor Hugo
I will do my best. That is all I can do. I ask for your help - and God's.
Lyndon B. Johnson
The corporate grip on opinion in the United States is one of the wonders of the Western world. No First World country has ever managed to eliminate so entirely from its media all objectivity - much less dissent.
Gore Vidal
A man is a method a progressive arrangement, a selecting principle gathering his like to him, wherever he goes.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I went to a general store but they wouldn't let me buy anything specific.
Steven Wright
If I knew what I was so anxious about I wouldn't be so anxious.
Mignon McLaughlin
