“We have nothing in our history or position to invite aggression; we have everything to beckon us to the cultivation of relations of peace and amity with all nations”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“It is no paradox to say that although comparatively weak the new-born nation was intrinsically strong.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“My Countrymen: It is a relief to feel that no heart but my own can know the personal regretan bitter sorrow over which I have been borne to a position so suitable for others rather than desirable for myself.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“Nor is it hostility against their fellow-citizens of one section if the Union alone. The interersts, the honor, the duty, the peace, and the prosperity of the people of all sections are equally involved and imperiled in this question.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“And are patriotic men of any part of the Union prepared on such issue thus madly to invite all the consequences of the forfeiture of their constitutional agreements? It is impossible.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“I know that the Union is stronger a thousand times than all the wild and chimerical schemes of social change which are generated one after another in the unstable minds of visionary sophists and interested agitators.”— Franklin Pierce, amazon.com
“You can think Melania Trump is a bad person and also feel bad about a society that made it seem like a good idea for her to marry a clearly uncaring monster like Donald Trump. This may have been a me thing, but growing up I got a LOT of messages that I w ,as supposed to marry a successful man. Not a…”— Jennifer Wright, twitter.com
“It is so much easier to believe that everything is a conspiracy theory because it implies some sort of order to the world. The fact is, the world is chaos. Sometimes kids get shot. No secret intelligentsia is behind it. We just all have got to do better.”— Jennifer Wright, twitter.com
“I wish to be useful, and every kind of service necessary to the public good becomes honorable by being necessary.”— Nathan Hale, amazon.com
“If the exigencies of my country demand a peculiar service, its claim to perform that service are imperious.”— Nathan Hale, amazon.com
“We mustn't fear to adopt the advanced management methods applied in capitalist countries (...) The very essence of socialism is the liberation and development of the productive systems (...) Socialism and market economy are not incompatible (...) We should be concerned about right-wing deviations, b…”— Deng Xiaoping, en.wikiquote.org
“When our thousands of Chinese students abroad return home, you will see how China will transform itself.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“A basic contradiction between socialism and the market economy does not exist.”— Deng Xiaoping, en.wikiquote.org
“Let some people get rich first, and gradually all the people should get rich together.”— Deng Xiaoping, amazon.com
“"If he disrespect, two shots and I won't blink, ayy Never really cared what the fuck these niggas think, ayy"”— Fetty Wap, genius.com
“If your Lordship vouchsafe the acceptance, ’tis yours, if the Reader can pick out either use or content, ’tis his, and I am pleased. Example being the publique, and your Lorships favor the private aime, of your humbly devoted”— Francis Drake, international.loc.gov
“But, my masters, I must have it left [stopped], for I must have the gentleman to hale and draw [work] with the mariner, and the mariner with the gentleman. What, let us show ourselves all to be of a company and let us not give occasion to the enemy to rejoice at our decay and overthrow. I would know…”— Francis Drake, amazon.com
“If you’re part of the 'I didn’t make this mess. It’s not my problem' crowd, you are part of the problem.”— Joel L. Daniels, twitter.com