You must clear your mind of the fancy with which we all begin as children, that the institutions under which we live are natural like the weather. They are not. –George Bernard Shaw
A government big enough to give you everything you want is strong enough to take away everything you have. –Thomas Jefferson
Today the Democratic Party stands between two great forces. On one side stands the corporate interests of the nation, its moneyed institutions, its aggregations of wealth and capital, imperious, arrogant, compassionless…On the other side stands the unnumbered throng which gave a name to the Democratic Party and for which it has presumed to speak. Work-worn and dust-begrimed, they make their mute appeal, and too often find their cry for help beat in vain against the outer walls. –William Jennings Bryan, in 1893.
Enlightened statesmen will not always be at the helm. –Federalist #10
Politicians walk around Capitol Hill with their fingers in the air, wet fingers, to see which way the wind is blowing, and we think that by replacing one wet-fingered politician we can change the nation. Martin Luther King, Jr. knew that was wrong. He knew that to change the nation you had to change the wind. –Jim Wallis
Look at the stone-cutter hammering away at his rock, perhaps a hundred times without as much as a crack showing in it. Yet at the hundred-and-first blow it will split in two, and I know it was not the last blow that did it, but all that had gone on before. –Jacob Riis
Rise like lions after slumber/In unvanquishable number/Shake your chains to the earth like dew/which in sleep had fallen on you/Ye are many – they are few. –Percy Bysshe Shelley
Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny 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
I am an optimist. It does not seem too much use to be anything else. –Winston Churchill
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