Today Quotes
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Just what is it that America stands for? If she stands for one thing more than another it is for the sovereignty of self-governing people.Woodrow Wilson
America lives in the heart of every man everywhere who wishes to find a region where he will be free to work out his destiny as he chooses.Woodrow Wilson
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.Brendan Behan
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.Benjamin Disraeli, campaign speech at High Wycombe, England, November 27, 1832
Some people did what their neighbors did so that if any lunatics were at large, one might know and avoid them.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Our deeds are like children that are born to us;they live and act apart from our own will.George Eliot, Romola
What we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.George Eliot, Middlemarch
The troublesome ones in a family are usually either the wits or the idiots.George Eliot, Middlemarch
Free speech carries with it some freedom to listen.Bob Marley
One good thing about music, when it hits you, you feel no pain.Bob Marley