Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not / Who would be free themselves must strike the blow?
Lord ByronThere are two kinds of people one can call reasonable: those who serve God with all their heart because they know him and those who seek him with all their heart because they do not know him.
Blaise PascalIt is incontestable and deplorable that Negroes have committed crimes, but they are derivative crimes. They are born of the greater crimes of the white society.
Martin Luther King, Jr.So many objections may be made to everything that nothing can overcome them but the necessity of doing something.
Samuel JohnsonWhat other dungeon is so dark as one's own heart! What jailer so inexorable as one's self!
Nathaniel HawthorneCalifornia is a queer place in a way it has turned its back on the world and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish very empty but not false and at least not full of false effort.
David Herbert LawrenceComedy is much more difficult than tragedy-and a much better training I think. It's much easier to make people cry than to make them laugh.
Vivien LeighA leader in the Democratic Party is a boss; in the Republican Party he is a leader.
Harry S. Truman