"We must not permit our respect for the dead or our sympathy for the living to lead us into an act of injustice to the balance of the living. I will not attempt to prove that Congress has no power to appropriate this money as an act of charity. Every member upon this floor knows it. We have the right as individuals to give away as much of our own money as we please in charity; but as members of congress we have no right to appropriate a dollar of the public money."

-- Davy Crockett

#Giving Quotes #Balance Quotes #Dollars Quotes

“The population forecast for the United States in 1970 is 170 million. The population forecast for Russia alone in 1970 is 251 million. The implications are clear.”

Source : Emanuel Celler (1953). “You Never Leave Brooklyn: The Autobiography of Emanuel Celler”
“The mind is an enchanting thing is an enchanted thing, like the glaze on a katydid-wing subdivided by sun till the nettings are legion.”

Source : Marianne Moore (1994). “Complete Poems”, p.134, Penguin
“I'm fascinated by Catholic mystics, even though I grew up Mennonite in Pennsylvania.”

Source : Source: sojo.net
“I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.”
“The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place, but a state of mind.”
“Sick kids almost never go to their father's side of the bed to announce they're going to barf.”
“The sun is new each day.”
“It's an interesting thing in this country. I haven't won a gold medal, yet Australians still take me into their houses and hearts, they know my name and they care. I think Aussies like the little Aussie battler and the person who will stand up for their rights and I've never been short of a word, especially with officialdom.”

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