"That's the way it is with influence, you know; if you don't use it all the time, people will forget you have it."

“Every day, first responders put their own lives on the line to ensure our safety. The least we can do is make sure they have the tools to protect and serve their communities.”

“Don't vote for a Democrat or Republican, I have never voted for one in my life and I never will.”

“I have always preferred cheerfulness to mirth. The latter I consider as an act, the former as a habit of mind. Mirth is short and transient, cheerfulness fixed and permanent.”

“To this day, I enjoy nature, the luxury of undisturbed wilderness, forests, mountains, lakes, rivers and deserts and their wildlife. But I also know that the greatest danger to their perpetuity is the pressure of human population.”

“Perseverance is my motto.”

“When you understand what you see, you will no longer be children. You will know that life is pain, that each of us hangs always upon the cross of himself. And when you know that this is true of every man, woman and child on earth, you will be wiser.”

Source : Whittaker Chambers (2014). “Witness”, p.22, Regnery Publishing

“It's about the people, who have stopped believing because the cup of evil has run over.”

Source : "Testimony" by Dmitri Shostakovich, translated by Antonina W. Bouis, New York: Limelight, (p. 8), 2004.

“I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.”