"Democracy is direct self-government over all the people, for all the people, by all the people."

-- Theodore Parker

#Government Quotes #Self Quotes #People Quotes

“I enjoy playing characters where the silence is loud.”

Source : "Gary Oldman: from Sid to Smiley: the rollercoaster story of a true British great" by Xan Brooks, www.theguardian.com. February 9, 2012.
“The risk is enormous to Democrats. Even talking about censure or impeachment threatens to really agitate the Republican base.”
“My philosophy in life... is to prove myself to myself and not to others. I tried to teach my children that, that I have to respect myself, to prove to myself that I can do the best I can.”
“I couldn't be in a relationship and behave like somebody else or pretend I felt something I didn't feel. And that includes saying things I thought might jeopardize the relationship.”
“It's always been very clear to me that I was going to be a mother and that my purpose in life was to give life.”
“It is very often nothing but our own vanity that deceives us.”
“Most Christians salute the sovereignty of God but believe in the sovereignty of man.”
“If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with which I was in love would one day flood back into my heart, there to ignite a flame that would torture me without end, how gladly would I have put out the light in my eyes.”

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