"'We the People' established the Constitution. Did we really do so to somehow keep ourselves out of the decision making. Are we only wise when it comes to electing people capable of governing our affairs, but wholly without the intellect to decide issues for ourselves?"

“You can achieve a goal; you never really achieve your purpose, because your purpose is ongoing. It never stops.”

“I've benefited greatly from studying many effective people from history. Among those who've influenced me the most are Ronald Reagan, Theodore Roosevelt, and Winston Churchill. Each of the three altered history; each was self-created to a great extent; and each was a great student of history and leadership.”

“These men were wrongfully rejected, the veterans. The fighting man should never have been blamed for Vietnam.”

“I have to live for the day, and not worry about or try to know what tomorrow brings.... if I've learned one thing from all that'shappened to me, it's that if you would know what tomorrow brings, you may not want to live it.”

“Suffer what there is to suffer, enjoy what there is to enjoy. Regard both suffering and joy as facts of life, and continue chanting Nam-myoho-renge-kyo, no matter what happens. How could this be anything other than the boundless joy of the Law?”

Source : Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”

“I don't like men who live, by choice, out of their own country. I don't like interior decorators. I don't like Germans. I don't like buggers and I don't like Christian Scientists.”

“A charge to keep I have, A God to glorify; A never dying soul to save, And fit it for the sky.”

Source : Charles Wesley (1989). “Charles Wesley : A Reader: A Reader”, p.449, Oxford University Press, USA

“uproar against a new idea, and laws to prevent anybody's accepting it, nearly always can be regarded as a signal that the new idea is just about to be taken for granted. ... they didn't start making laws to prohibit the teaching of evolution until everybody was about to take it for granted.”