"The one thing I want to leave my children is an honorable name."

-- Theodore Roosevelt

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“The constitution supposes, what the History of all Governments demonstrates, that the Executive is the branch of power most interested in war, and most prone to it.”
“I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.”

Source : "Fictional character: Ty Cobb". "Cobb", www.imdb.com. 1994.
“And that is that they went about systematically understanding how to disrupt and change a person's entire processes. And these Taliban - I'm not trying to say the Republican Party is the Taliban. No, that's not what we're saying. I'm saying an example of how you go about [sic] is to change a person from their messaging to their operations to their frontline message. And we need to understand that insurgency may be required when the other side, the House leadership, does not follow the same commands, which we entered the game with.”

Source : "House Republicans promise Taliban insurgent tactics, blame Pelosi" by Johanna Neuman, latimesblogs.latimes.com. February 5, 2009.
“The only true equalisers in the world are books; the only treasure-house open to all comers is a library; the only wealth which will not decay is knowledge; the only jewel which you can carry beyond the grave is wisdom.”

Source : John Alfred Langford (1880). “The Praise of Books as Said and Sung by English Authors: Selected with a Preliminary Essay on Books”
“I hardly ever listen to any of our old stuff now. Once the songs have been recorded and put on to vinyl they become someone else's entertainment, not mine.”
“I feel some responsibility to shine light on things that I love.”

Source : Source: www.chicagotribune.com
“Without poets, without artists... everything would fall apart into chaos. There would be no more seasons, no more civilizations, no more thought, no more humanity, no more life even; and impotent darkness would reign forever. Poets and artists together determine the features of their age, and the future meekly conforms to their edit.”
“It is absolutely true that I have served in two Democratic administrations. You can tell something from me and my political views from that.”

Source : "Elena Kagan Under Fire From Republicans". Reuters, www.theguardian.com. June 29, 2010.

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