Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be? – George Will
From the poetry of Lord Byron they drew a system of ethics compounded of misanthropy and voluptuousness–a system in which the two great commandments were to hate your neighbor and to love your neighbors wife. – Thomas Babington Macaulay
You just have to trust your instincts and hope that if someone doesnt like your idea, you can prove them wrong in the final process. In the end, you can please some of the people some of the time, but thats about all you can do. – Bryan Singer
A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the preservation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. – Mark Twain, 1894