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“The love of liberty is the love of others; the love of power is the love of ourselves.”
Source : 'Political Essays' (1819) '"The Times" Newspaper'
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“The old days were slower. People buttered their bread without guilt and sat down to dinner en famille.”
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“I think good comedy is a commitment to the absurd in that the situation for the actors should be virtually played like a drama.”
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“To our senses, the elements are four and have ever been, and will ever be for they are the elements of life, of poetry, and of perception, the four Great Ones, the Four Roots, the First Four of Fire and the Wet, Earth and the wide Air of the World. To find the other many elements, you must go to the laboratory and hunt them down. But the four we have always with us, they are our world. Or rather, they have us with them.”
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“The less you talk, the more you're listened to.”
Source : "A Small Encounter With Abigail Van Buren" by Lea Lane, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 22, 2013.
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“That sun is lookin' good... and hot! Get it? Hilarious! My joke writers are awesome.”
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“I just like to keep my money in the bank; I'm not a big risk-taker. I don't know anything about the stock market... I stay away from things I don't know anything about.”
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“Voter suppression laws, overzealous filibuster use, you name it - the Republicans use every tactic they can to stop our democracy from actually selecting the person with the most support.”
Source : "Voter Suppression Is Treasonous" by Jennifer M. Granholm, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 22, 2012.