“I mean, there's always somebody in somebody's administration who jumps out early, sells a book, and goes after the guy who hired him. I don't know if that's good. It may be good business; it's not good politics.”— Bob Dole, edition.cnn.com
“By the theory of our Government majorities rule, but this right is not an arbitrary or unlimited one. It is a right to be exercised in subordination to the Constitution and in conformity to it. One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching…”— James K. Polk, yale.edu
“Among the basic freedoms to which men aspire that their lives might be full and uncramped, freedom from fear stands out as both a means and an end. A people who would build a nation in which strong, democratic institutions are firmly established as a guarantee against state-induced power must first…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“There is no intrinsic virtue to law and order unless 'law' is equated with justice and 'order' with the discipline of a people satisfied that justice has been done. Law as an instrument of state oppression is a familiar feature of totalitarianism. Without a popularly elected legislature and an indep…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“The words 'law and order' have so frequently been misused as an excuse for oppression that the very phrase has become suspect in countries which have known authoritarian rule.”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“Hope and optimism are irrepressible but there is a deep underlying premonition that the opposition to change is likely to be vicious. Often the anxious question is asked: will such an oppressive regime really give us democracy? And the answer has to be: democracy, like liberty, justice and other soc…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“It is a strong argument for democracy that governments regulated by principles of accountability, respect for public opinion and the supremacy of just laws are more likely than an all-powerful ruler or ruling class, uninhibited by the need to honour the will of the people, to observe the traditional…”— Aung San Suu Kyi, amazon.com
“But no public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.”— George Bernard Shaw, en.wikiquote.org
“They made it plain to everyone, however, and above all to the king himself, that although he had plenty of troops, he did not have many men”— Herodotus, amazon.com
“There is one rule, above all others, for being a man. Whatever comes, face it on your feet.”— Robert Jordan, amazon.com
“The rest of us have never embraced your victim mentality; we are not victims. We are people, the same way that men are. We are equal, yet different. We, unlike you, realize that is not mutually exclusive.”— Lori Ziganto, thoughtcatalog.com
“But whatever, we descendants of the Girl Line may not have wealth and proper windows in our drafty homes but at least we have rage and we will build empires with that, gentlemen.”— Miriam Toews, thoughtcatalog.com
“When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.”— Sally Klempton, thoughtcatalog.com
“I have made it a rule never to smoke more than one cigar at a time. I have no other restriction as regards smoking.”— Mark Twain, amazon.com