The future is purchased by the present.
Samuel Johnson
Government "help" to business is just as disastrous as government persecution... the only way a government can be of service to national prosperity is by keeping its hands off.
Ayn Rand
Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington
Faith is an aptitude of the spirit. It is in fact a talent: you must be born with it.
Anton Chekhov
Whenever I meet with anything agreeable in this world it surprises me so much / and pleases me so much (when my passions are not interested in one way or the other) that I go on wondering for a week to come.
Lord Byron
Love friendship and respect do not unite people as much as a common hatred for something.
Anton Chekhov
I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.
Christina Aguilera
And Ted Koppel comes walking down the aisle. We'd met a few times so we said hello.
Dave Barry
The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts it is still the greatest city in the whole world.
Walt Whitman
Great indebtedness does not make men grateful but vengeful, and if a little charity is not forgotten it turns into a gnawing worm.
Friedrich Nietzsche
