Order is the sanity of the mind, the health of the body, the peace of the city, the security of the state. Like beams in a house or bones to a body, so is order to all things. – Robert Southey
If you would be pungent, be brief; for it is with words as with sunbeams — the more they are condensed, the deeper they burn. – Robert Southey
The loss of a friend is like that of a limb time may heal the anguish of the wound, but the loss cannot be repaired. – Robert Southey
A kitten is in the animal world what a rosebud is in the garden. – Robert Southey
But you say, does it represent change? The change is that we are fighting an insurance industry that has killed health reform for generations. Theyre spending tens of millions of dollars right now to defeat this bill, and were on the doorstep of winning a great victory for the American people. – David Axelrod