When I was a kid, I used to deliver the newspaper all over town, cramming papers between screen doors and into mailboxes and under doormats. ~Jill Lepore
#quotes #jill-lepore #childhood

The course of history shows that as a government grows, liberty decreases. ~Thomas Jefferson
#quotes #thomas-jefferson #freedom #government

Prayer gives a man the opportunity of getting to know a gentleman he hardly ever meets. I do not mean his maker, but himself. ~William Ralph Inge
#quotes #william-ralph-inge #prayer

Ultimately, you just have one life. You never know unless you try. And you never get anywhere unless you ask. ~Kate Winslet
#quotes #kate-winslet #life #trying

But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought of freedom, in that hope itself possess. All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength. The scorn of danger, and united hearts. The surest presage of the good they seek. ~William Cowper
#quotes #william-cowper #liberty

With those people, I'm very far apart, because I believe that government access to communications and stored records is valuable when done under tightly controlled conditions which protect legitimate privacy interests. ~Dorothy Denning
#quotes #dorothy-denning #government #privacy

We will, in fact, be greeted as liberators. ~Dick Cheney
#quotes #dick-cheney #liberty

Just because I've stopped working doesn't mean that I've stopped being helpful. ~Walter Huston
#quotes #walter-huston #work #helping

Amending the U.S. Constitution, the document most sacred to those who love freedom and liberty, is a delicate endeavor and should be done only on the basis of the most clear and convincing evidence that a proposed amendment is necessary. ~Ben Nelson
#quotes #ben-nelson #constitution #freedom #liberty #amendment

I definitely have two Olympics in me; I don't know about three Olympics. ~Gracie Gold
#quotes #gracie-gold #olympics

If you had to choose only two qualities to get you through times of change, the first should be a sense of self-worth and the second a sense of humor. ~Jennifer James
#quotes #jennifer-james #change #self-worth #humor

The most dangerous food is wedding cake. ~American Proverb
#proverbs #american-proverbs #marriage

Selfishness and demagoguery take advantage of liberty. The selfish hand constantly seeks to control government, and every increase of governmental power, even to meet just needs, furnishes opportunity for abuse and stimulates the effort to bend it to improper uses. ~Charles Evans Hughes
#quotes #charles-evans-hughes #government

I hope we do not see another Iraq-type operation for a long time; without UN approval and much broader support from the international community. ~Kofi Annan
#quotes #kofi-annan #military #iraq #united-states

What is not forbidden in Sweden, is obligatory. ~Milton Friedman
#quotes #milton-friedman #sweden

The idea of atomic energy is illusionary but it has taken so powerful a hold on the minds, that although I have preached against it for twenty-five years, there are still some who believe it to be realizable. ~Nikola Tesla
#quotes #nikola-tesla #nuclear

I had my nearest and most intimate glimpses of the presence of my Lord in those dread moments when musket, club or spear was being levelled at my life. ~John Gibson Paton
#quotes #john-gibson-paton #god

It's true, I had an extremely delicious life, but that was my life at home, and perhaps because I was only a child, or for whatever reasons, I found the company of others, especially other boys, quite terrifying and upsetting. ~Harry Mathews
#quotes #harry-mathews #life #childhood #boys

Truly, there are terrible primal arcana of earth which had better be left unknown and unevoked; dread secrets which have nothing to do with man, and which man may learn only in exchange for peace and sanity; cryptic truths which make the knower evermore an alien among his kind, and cause him to walk alone on earth. ~H. P. Lovecraft
#quotes #h-p-lovecraft #earth #life #pessimism

Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex. ~Warren Farrell
#quotes #warren-farrell #relationship #alcohol

Gray hairs are death's blossoms. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs #death

For all my criticisms of the current system, it doesn't mean that I would like to return to the old one. ~Helen Suzman
#quotes #helen-suzman #criticism #law

Don't count your chickens before they hatch. ~English Proverb
#proverbs #english-proverbs

It is method on "This is England;" it is. But it can't be method on every job because it just doesn't work for everything. ~Vicky McClure
#quotes #vicky-mcclure #england #method

Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow. ~Anita Desai
#quotes #anita-desai #travel