Peace, plenty, and contentment reign throughout our borders, and our beloved country presents a sublime moral spectacle to the world.
James K. Polk

People are trapped in history and history is trapped in them.
James A. Baldwin

People that are really very weird can get into sensitive positions and have a tremendous impact on history.
Dan Quayle

Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it.
John Quincy Adams

Remember, God provides the best camouflage several hours out of every 24.
David M. Shoup

Russians can give you arms but only the United States can give you a solution.
Anwar Sadat

Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.
Frank Herbert

Something as curious as the monarchy won't survive unless you take account of people's attitudes. After all, if people don't want it, they won't have it.
Prince Charles

Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.
Sandra Day O'Connor

Tell the FBI that the kidnappers should pick out a judge that Nixon wants back.
William O. Douglas

Terrorism takes us back to ages we thought were long gone if we allow it a free hand to corrupt democratic societies and destroy the basic rules of international life.
Jacques Chirac

That great dust-heap called 'history'.
Augustine Birrell

The 1st Amendment protects the right to speak, not the right to spend.
Byron White

The chief condition on which, life, health and vigor depend on, is action. It is by action that an organism develops its faculties, increases its energy, and attains the fulfillment of its destiny.
Colin Powell

The construction of Europe is an art. It is the art of the possible.
Jacques Chirac

The deliberate and deadly attacks which were carried out yesterday against our country were more than acts of terror. They were acts of war.
George W. Bush

The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew.
Abraham Lincoln

The fleet sailed to its war base in the North Sea, headed not so much for some rendezvous with glory as for rendezvous with discretion.
Barbara Tuchman

The future has a way of arriving unannounced.
George Will

The greater the difficulty, the more the glory in surmounting it.
Epicurus