People revere the Constitution yet know so little about it—and that goes for some of my fellow senators.
—Robert Byrd, 2005
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Of all objects that I have ever seen, there is none which affects my imagination so much as the sea or ocean. A troubled ocean, to a man who sails upon it, is, I think, the biggest object that he can see in motion, and consequently gives his imagination one of the highest kinds of pleasure that can arise from greatness.
—Joseph Addison, 1712I don’t believe you can stand for freedom for one group of people and deny it to others.
—Coretta Scott King, 1994Among all nations, through the darkest polytheism glimmer some faint sparks of monotheism.
—Immanuel Kant, 1781The more enlightened our houses are, the more their walls ooze ghosts.
—Italo Calvino, 1967However harmless a thing is, if the law forbids it, most people will think it wrong.
—W. Somerset Maugham, 1896You should never have your best trousers on when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
—Henrik Ibsen, 1882Everyone else is represented in Washington by a rich and powerful lobby, it seems. But there is no lobby for the people.
—Shirley Chisholm, 1970If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the principal difference between a dog and a man.
—Mark Twain, 1894Death keeps no calendar.
—George Herbert, 1640History in its broadest aspect is a record of man’s migrations from one environment to another.
—Ellsworth Huntington, 1919The call of death is a call of love. Death can be sweet if we answer it in the affirmative, if we accept it as one of the great eternal forms of life and transformation.
—Hermann Hesse, 1950When night in her rusty dungeon has imprisoned our eyesight, and that we are shut separately in our chambers from resort, the devil keeps his audit in our sin-guilty consciences.
—Thomas Nashe, 1594