Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. George Washington on freedom
Government is not reason, it is not eloquence - it is force. George Washington on government
Liberty, when it begins to take root, is a plant of rapid growth. George Washington on liberty
There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy. George Washington on peace
My first wish is to see this plague of mankind, war, banished from the earth. George Washington on war
Enriched beyond the dreams of any normal person’s avarice, she accumulated possessions with a single-minded lust that calls to mind those ancient Romans who gorged themselves, then vomited so they could gorge again. Russell Watson on avarice
The configuration of my nervous system, like the configuration of the stars, happens of itself, and this 'itself' is the real 'myself.' From this standpoint here language reveals its limitations with a vengeance I find that I cannot help doing and experiencing, quite freely, what is always 'right,' in the sense that the stars are always in their 'right' places. Alan Wilson Watts on identity
Trying to define yourself is like trying to bite your own teeth. Alan Wilson Watts on identity
Only when one has lost all curiosity about the future has one reached the age to write an autobiography. Evelyn Waugh on age
There's always room at the top. Webster on success
Justice, sir, is the great interest of man on earth. It is the ligament which holds civilized beings and civilized nations together. Daniel Webster on justice
Liberty exists in proportion to wholesome restraint. Daniel Webster on liberty
Let us not forget that the cultivation of the earth is the most important labor of man. When tillage begins, other arts will follow. The farmers, therefore, are the founders of civilization. Daniel Webster on nature
We are all agents of the same supreme power, the people. Daniel Webster on people
The theory that can absorb the greatest number of facts, and persist in doing so, generation after generation, through all changes of opinion and detail, is the one that must rule all observation. John Weiss on science
I passionately hate the idea of being with it, I think an artist has always to be out of step with his time. Orson Welles on art
I mistrust the judgment of every man in a case in which his own wishes are concerned. Wellington on judgment
...advice is one of those things it is far more blessed to give than to receive. Carolyn Wells on advice
The American experience stirred mankind from discovery to exploration. From the cautious quest for what they knew (or thought they knew) was out there, into an enthusiastic reaching to the unknown. These are two substantially different kinds of human enterprise. Daniel Boorstin on exploration
Heresies are experiments in man's unsatisfied search for truth. H. G. Wells on heresy