Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort, you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good, You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation. – Plato
Politics ought to be the part-time profession of every citizen who would protect the rights and privileges of free people and who would preserve what is good and fruitful in our national heritage. – Dwight D. Eisenhower
One thing governors feel, Democrats and Republicans alike, is that we have a health care system that, if youre on Medicaid, you have unlimited access to health care, at unlimited levels, at no cost. No wonder its running away. – Mike Huckabee
I knew that I could vote and that that wasnt a privilege it was my right. Every time I tried I was shot, killed or jailed, beaten or economically deprived. – Stokely Carmichael
My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. – Elizabeth Gaskell