In most places in the country, voting is looked upon as a right and a duty, but in Chicago it's a sport.
Dick Gregory

The closer a man approaches tragedy the more intense is his concentration of emotion upon the fixed point of his commitment, which is to say the closer he approaches what in life we call fanaticism.
Arthur Miller

Misfortune seldom intrudes upon the wise man; his greatest and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life.
Epicurus

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.
Epicurus

The destiny of world civilization depends upon providing a decent standard of living for all mankind.
Norman Borlaug

The symptoms of fascist thinking are colored by environment and adapted to immediate circumstances. But always and everywhere they can be identified by their appeal to prejudice and by the desire to play upon the fears and vanities of different groups in order to gain power.
Henry A. Wallace

I love such mirth as does not make friends ashamed to look upon one another next morning.
Izaak Walton

It is a revenge the devil sometimes takes upon the virtuous, that he entraps them by the force of the very passion they have suppressed and think themselves superior to.
George Santayana

We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
Maria Montessori

Wherefore for the public interest and benefit of human society it is requisite that the highest obligations possible should be laid upon the consciences of men.
Isaac Barrow

America is a Nation with a mission - and that mission comes from our most basic beliefs. We have no desire to dominate, no ambitions of empire. Our aim is a democratic peace - a peace founded upon the dignity and rights of every man and woman.
George W. Bush

We are anthill men upon an anthill world.
Ray Bradbury

It is clear our nation is reliant upon big foreign oil. More and more of our imports come from overseas.
George W. Bush

Black women are programmed to define ourselves within this male attention and to compete with each other for it rather than to recognize and move upon our common interests.
Audre Lorde

The quality of light by which we scrutinize our lives has direct bearing upon the product which we live, and upon the changes which we hope to bring about through those lives.
Audre Lorde

Upon the education of the people of this country the fate of this country depends.
Benjamin Disraeli

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.
Benjamin Disraeli

I have brought myself, by long meditation, to the conviction that a human being with a settled purpose must accomplish it, and that nothing can resist a will which will stake even existence upon its fulfillment.
Benjamin Disraeli

The best security for civilization is the dwelling, and upon properly appointed and becoming dwellings depends, more than anything else, the improvement of mankind.
Benjamin Disraeli

Security depends not so much upon how much you have, as upon how much you can do without.
Joseph Wood Krutch