In politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way.
~Franklin Delano Roosevelt
The shepherd always tries to persuade the sheep that their interests and his own are the same.
~ Marie Beyle
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed people can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
~ Margaret Mead
Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others they send forth a ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
~ Robert F Kennedy
There is no distinctly native American criminal class save Congress.
~ Mark Twain
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness; the other to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.
~ Woody Allen -
"If A Nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be"
~ Thomas Jefferson.
"We must not confuse dissent with disloyalty. We will not be driven by
fear into an age of unreason if we remember that we are not descended
from fearful men, not from men who feared to write, to speak, to
associate and to defend causes which were, for the moment, unpopular."
~Edward R. Murrow