"Who knows? Maybe my life belongs to God. Maybe it belongs to me. But I do know one thing: I'm damned if it belongs to the government."

-- Art Hoppe

#Government Quotes #Political Quotes

“I have never indulged our society's misguided notion that my personal life is relevant to my work, so any reporting surrounding that is necessarily hearsay, speculation or fantasy.”
“An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave.”
“Is there any wilderness of sand in the deserts of Arabia, is there any prospect of desolation among the ruins of Palestine, which can rival the repelling effect on the eye, and the depressing influence on the mind, of an English country town in the first stage of its existence, and in the transition state of its prosperity?”
“If it is true that one gets used to suffering, how is it that as the years go one always suffers more? No, they are not mad, those people who amuse themselves, enjoy life, travel, make love, fight they are not mad. We should like to do the same ourselves.”
“Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.”
“The art and passion of reading well and deeply is waning, but [Jane] Austen still inspires people to become fanatical readers.”
“I was born in 1953, so that's the Eisenhower administration.”

Source : "Q&A: Lincoln Chafee". Mother Jones Interview, www.motherjones.com. September/October, 2008.
“But what is past my help is past my care.”

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