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- Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
- Every one lives by selling something, whatever be his right to it.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), Beggars, 1903
- We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
- I believe that in this generation those with the courage to enter the conflict will find themselves with companions in every corner of the world.
- Robert F. Kennedy (1925 - 1968), Day of affirmation, address delivered at the University of Capetown, South Africa, June 6, 1966
- Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil.
- Albert Schweitzer (1875 - 1965), Civilization and Ethics, Preface
- Every man has a right to his opinion, but no man has a right to be wrong in his facts.
- Bernard M. Baruch (1870 - 1965)
- This imputation of inconsistency is one to which every sound politician and every honest thinker must sooner or later subject himself. The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891), My Study Windows,1899
- Yes, I was fat, but I dealt with it by simply never thinking about it. It is useful, when you are fat, to have a lot of other things to think about.
- Roger Ebert (1942 - 2013), People Magazine, 09-19-11
- Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it.
- H. L. Mencken (1880 - 1956), A Mencken Chrestomathy
- I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man.
- Alexander Hamilton (1755 - 1804), The Federalist
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