The idea for which this nation stands will not survive if the highest goal free man can set themselves is an amiable mediocrity. Excellence implies striving for the highest standards in every phase of life.
John W. Gardner
Secretly we're all a little more absurd than we make ourselves out to be.
J. K. Rowling
The world doesn't understand me and I don't understand the world that's why I've withdrawn from it.
Paul Cezanne
Do not separate text from historical background. If you do you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution which can only end in a distorted bastardized form of illegitimate government.
James Madison
I was never tired of listening to his wisdom or imparting my own.
Winston Churchill
Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
Walter Hagen
It is by far the most elegant worship hardly excepting the Greek mythology. What with incense pictures statues altars shrines relics and the real presence confession absolution -- there is something sensible to grasp at. Besides it leaves no possibility of doubt, for those who swallow their Deity really and truly in transubstantiation can hardly find any thing else otherwise than easy of digestion.
Lord Byron
The history of all countries shows that the working class exclusively by its own effort is able to develop only trade-union consciousness.
Vladimir Lenin
If he's got golf clubs in his truck or a camper in his driveway I don't hire him.
Lou Holtz
