QUOTES ABOUT HISTORY & LIFE

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear.

Mark Twain

US humorist, novelist, short story author, & wit (1835 - 1910)

My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.

Adlai E. Stevenson Jr., Speech in Detroit, 7 Oct. 1952

US diplomat & Democratic politician (1900 - 1965)

 

If you are not criticized, you may not be doing much.

Donald H. Rumsfeld, US Secretary of Defense

US Secretary of Defense (1932 - )

The word 'politics' is derived from the word 'poly', meaning 'many', and the word 'ticks', meaning 'blood sucking parasites'.

Larry Hardiman

In democracy it's your vote that counts; In feudalism it's your count that votes.

Mogens Jallberg