"I am determined to seek self-sufficiency in energy as an urgent national priority. My goal is to make America independent of foreign energy sources by 1985."

-- Gerald R. Ford

#Independent Quotes #Self Quotes #America Quotes

“I will answer anything I can with honor, but not about others.”

Source : James Redpath, John Brown (1860). “The Public Life of Capt. John Brown, with an Auto-biography of His Childhood and Youth”, p.277
“The more important question, of course, was what the new Lucy would do, and even though I was pretty sure the old Lucy wouldn't be around much anymore, I was a little bit afraid the new Lucy hadn't yet shown up.”

Source : Pam Houston (1999). “Waltzing the Cat”, p.275, Simon and Schuster
“I've never really been aware of what is said about me, whether it's positive or negative. I ignore it. I've always had the mind-set: 'No one can challenge me better than myself.'”
“And we owe science to the combined energies of individual men of genius, rather than to any tendency to progress inherent in civilization.”

Source : Chauncey Wright (2003). “Philosphical Discussions”, p.51, A&C Black
“Yet if he upbraided her in his hurry, it was to repent bitterly his temper the next, and to feel its effects more than she, temper being a weapon that we hold by the blade.”
“It's always good to have a world that people don't know about - a world that hasn't yet been done. It's like treading on fresh snow. You're the first one there.”
“In a world gone mad, only a lunatic is truly insane.”
“If we accept the notion that terrorists will have immunity because as they fire on civilians they hide behind civilians, then this tactic will be legitimized and the terrorists will have their greatest victory.”

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