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Let people make their own decisions and they'll work twice as hard.
—Howard Dean

It always seems impossible until its done.
—Nelson Mandela

The Bible is not my book nor Christianity my profession. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma.
—Abraham Lincoln

Democracy dies behind closed doors.
—US House Representative Brad Miller to House Judiciary Committee on Executive Power & the Bush Administration, July 25, 2008

He that makes war without many mistakes has not made war very long.
—Napoleon Bonaparte CITATION

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.
—Barack Obama

For everyone you lose we will lose ten, but you will tire first.
—Vo Nguyen Giap

No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.
—Indira Gandhi

Dissent has always been the principal catalyst in the alchemy of truth.
—Ramsey Clark

Religions are all alike—founded upon fables and mythologies.
—Thomas Jefferson

You don't need to be straight to fight an die for your country. You just need to shoot straight.
—Barry M. Goldwater 34

During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
—Al Gore, Jr.

Lighthouses are more useful than churches.
—Benjamin Franklin 40

Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not, genius will not, education alone will not. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
—Calvin Coolidge, attributed

They know everything. Unfortunately, they don't know anything else.
—Henry Kissinger

...the government of the United States is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion...
—Article 11, Treaty of Tripoli, 1797

Don't be afraid to take a big step when one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.
—David Lloyd George

I hope never to meet a man so dull he could think of only one way to spell a word.
—Andrew Jackson

I don't believe in God as I don't believe in Mother Goose.
—Clarence Darrow 38

A man's life is interesting primarily when he has failed—I well know. For it's a sign that he tried to surpass himself.
—Georges Clemenceau

We will either find a way, or make one.
—Hannibal

While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
—Eugene V. Debs

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man. No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
—John F. Kennedy

In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies.
—Winston Churchill to Josef Stalin 36

Revise and live without all dread;
The less afraid, the better thou shalt speed.
—Elizabeth I

No man or woman who does not see visions will ever realize any high hope or undertake any high enterprise.
—Woodrow Wilson

The movements of exaltation which belong to genius are egotistic by their very nature. A calm, clear mind, not subject to the spasms and crises which are so often met with in creative or intensely perceptive natures, is the best basis for love or friendship.
—Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.

What counts is not necessarily the size of the dog in the fight. It's the size of the fight in the dog.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

All warfare is based on deception.
—Sun Tzu SOURCE

The world is always ready to receive talent with open arms. Very often it does not know what to do with genius.
—Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
—Robert F. Kennedy

Don't be so humble. You're not that great.
—Golda Meir

If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them.
—Adlai E. Stevenson

This would be the best of all possible worlds, if there were not religion in it.
—John Adams 39

You must do the thing you think you cannot do.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell you more than he knows.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

The Empires of the future are the Empires of the mind.
—Winston Churchill

Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less.
—Susan B. Anthony

I am not a member of any Christian church.
—Abraham Lincoln 37

A precedent embalms a principle.
—Benjamin Disraeli

A woman is like a teabag. You never know how strong she is until she's in hot water.
—Eleanor Roosevelt 33

It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed.
—Theodore Roosevelt

Am I not destroying my enemies by making friends of them?
—Abraham Lincoln

Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.
—Martin Luther King, Jr. 

He who imitates what is evil always goes beyond the example that is set; on the contrary, he who imitates what is good always falls short.
—Francesco Guicciardini

If you want to get across an idea, wrap it up in a person.
—Ralph Bunche

Many ideas grow better when transplanted into another mind than in the one where they sprung up.
—Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.

The innovator has for enemies all who have done well under the old, and lukewarm defenders in those who may do well under the new law.
—Machiavelli

Life is short; live it up.
—Nikita Khrushchev

The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
—Hannah Arendt

The truth will set you free, but first it will make you miserable.
—James A. Garfield

Where we all think alike, no one thinks very much.
—Walter Lippman

Religion is the sigh of the oppressed creature, the heart of a heartless world. It is the opium of the people.
—Karl Marx

Man's mind, stretched to a new idea, never goes back to its original shape.
—Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.

Talent ... must be stimulated. The country will not manage without it.
—Mikhail Gorbachev

He's no failure. He's not dead yet.
—William Lloyd George

Last words are for fools who haven't said enough.
—Karl Marx

Early to bed, early to rise, work like hell and organize.
—Al Gore, Jr.

Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity.
—George S. Patton

Question with boldness even the existence of a God, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.
—Thomas Jefferson 41

I feel like Zsa Zsa Gabor's fifth husband. I know what I'm supposed to do but I don't know if I can make it interesting.
—Al Gore, Jr.

That the brain runs away with the heart's best blood, which gives the world a few pages of wisdom or sentiment or poetry, instead of making one other heart happy, I have no question.
—Oliver W. Holmes, Jr.

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 are not clothed.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower CITATION

War is always an admission of failure and the worst solution.
—Jacques Chirac SOURCE

I'd rather be ruled by a wise Turk than a foolish Christian.
—Martin Luther CITATION

True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.
—Winston Churchill

The supreme art of war is to subdue the enemy without fighting.
—Sun Tzu SOURCE

So convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for everything one has a mind to do.
—Benjamin Franklin 35

Adversity builds character.
—Ross Perot

Had I been present at the creation of the world I would have proposed some improvements.
—Alfonso X

He can compress the most words into the smallest idea of any man I know. 
—Abraham Lincoln

I'd rather have roses on my table than diamonds on my neck.
—Emma Goldman

Always do more than is required of you.
—George S. Patton

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