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- I still believe that at any time the no-talent police will come and arrest me.
- Mike Myers
- Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and not clothed. This world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
- Folks never understand the folks they hate.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- I dream of wayward gulls and all landless lovers, rare moments of winter sun, peace, privacy, for everyone.
- William Claire
- Science can be introduced to children well or poorly. If poorly, children can be turned away from science; they can develop a lifelong antipathy; they will be in a far worse condition than if they had never been introduced to science at all.
- Isaac Asimov (1920 - 1992)
- He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- John Milton (1608 - 1674)
- Truth, after all, wears a different face to everybody, and it would be too tedious to wait till all were agreed.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
- Martin Luther King Jr. (1929 - 1968)
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