You know, every election cycle we talk about ‘this is the most election of our lifetime’ — Lawrence, this one is.
Kamala Harris, Vice President of the United States, talking to MSNBC’s Lawrence O’Donnell on Tuesday’s Last Word.
Truth never yet fell dead in the streets; it has such affinity with the soul of man, the seed however broadcast will catch somewhere and produce its hundredfold.
Theodore Parker, A Discourse of Matters Pertaining to Religion (1842).
A weak man has doubts before a decision, a strong man has them afterwards.
Reading furnishes the mind only with materials of knowledge; it is thinking that makes what we read ours.
The books that help you the most are those which make you think the most.
Theodore Parker, as quoted in The Gigantic Book of Teachers’ Wisdom (2007) by Erin Gruwell and Frank McCourt, p. 496.
Europe was a heap of swords piled as delicately as jackstraws; one could not be pulled out without moving the others.
Barbara W. Tuchman, The Guns of August, Chapter 2, “Let the Last Man on the Right Brush the Channel with His Sleeve” (p. 22).