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- Democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts and murders itself. There was never a democracy that did not commit suicide.
- John Adams (1735 - 1826), Letter, April 15, 1814
- 'Tis better to have loved and lost
Than never to have loved at all. - Alfred Lord Tennyson (1809 - 1892), In Memoriam, 1850, line 27, stanza 4
- Imitation is the sincerest of flattery.
- Charles Caleb Colton (1780 - 1832), Lacon, volume I, no. 183
- And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
- Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
- Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
- Lord Acton, Lecture, February 26, 1877
- But love is blind and lovers cannot see
The pretty follies that themselves commit;
For if they could, Cupid himself would blush
To see me thus transformed to a boy. - William Shakespeare (1564 - 1616), The Merchant of Venice, Act II Scene 6
- Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. - Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873), Richelieu
- I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our government but civilization itself.
- Gerald R. Ford (1913 - 2006), Inaugural Address, 9 August 1974
- If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
- Albert Camus (1913 - 1960)
- When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will finally know peace.
- Jimi Hendrix (1942 - 1970)
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