"We see men who have accumulated great fortunes, but we often recognize only their triumph, overlooking the temporary defeats which they had to surmount before arriving."

“I look forward to competing.”

“The first persecution of the Church took place in the year 67, under Nero, the sixth emperor of Rome.”

Source : John Foxe, John Malham, T. Pratt (1830). “Fox's Book of Martyrs; Or, The Acts and Monuments of the Christian Church: Being a Complete History of the Lives, Sufferings, and Deaths of the Christian Martyrs; from the Commencement of Christianity to the Present Period. To which is Added an Account of the Inquisition, the Bartholomew Massacre in France, the General Persecution Under Louis XIV, the Massacres in the Irish Rebellions in the Years 1641, and 1798, Rise, Progress, and Persecutions of the People Commonly Called Quakers, Together with an Account of the Western Martyrology, Or Bloody Assizes; with the Lives of Some of the Early Eminent Reformers ...”, p.410

“I've spent my entire adult life with the United States as a superpower and one that had no compunction about spending what it took to sustain that position. And it didn't have to look over its shoulder because our economy was so strong.”

Source : Source: www.guernicamag.com

“Innovation is not born out out of a committee; innovation is a fight. It’s messy, people die, but when the battle is over, something unimaginably significant has been achieved.”

“The phrase public office is a public trust, has of last become common property.”

Source : "The "Spoils" System and Civil Service Reform". Book by Dorman Bridgeman Eaton, Chapter III. The Merit System,

“With the proper diet, no doctor is necessary. With the improper diet, no doctor can help”

“What is Africa to me: Copper sun or scarlet sea, Jungle star or jungle track, Strong bronzed men, or regal black Women from whose loins I sprang When the birds of Eden sang?”

Source : 1925 On These I Stand,'Heritage'.

“The love of Christ embraces all without exception. Fire of love, crazy over what You have made. Oh, divine Madman. (Prayer of Catherine Siena) Simply do the next thing in love. I have no sense of myself apart from you. Quia amasti me, fecisti me amabilem. (In loving me, you made me lovable.)”