"No democracy can long survive which does not accept as fundamental to its very existence the recognition of the rights of minorities."

Roosevelt, Franklin D. | Minorities | 2 bookmarks

"When we assumed the Soldier, we did not lay aside the Citizen."

Washington, George | Army and Navy | 2 bookmarks

"Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen."

Einstein, Albert | Common Sense | 3 bookmarks

"When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck."

Cushing, Richard C. | Appearance | 1 bookmarks

"Birds have bills too, and they keep on singing"

Unknown, Source | Debt | 2 bookmarks

"A bird doesn't sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song."

Angelou, Maya | Action | 14 bookmarks

"Some books leave us free and some books make us free."

Emerson, Ralph Waldo | Books - Reading | 8 bookmarks

"We few, we happy few, we band of brothers. For he today that sheds his blood with me shall be my brother; be never so vile. This day shall gentle his condition. And gentlemen in England now abed shall think themselves accursed they were not here, and hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks that fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day."

Shakespeare, William | Army and Navy | 3 bookmarks

"Lots of people want to ride with you in the limo, but what you want is someone who will take the bus with you when the limo breaks down."

Winfrey, Oprah | Friends and Friendship | 3 bookmarks

"The book to read is not the one which thinks for you, but the one which makes you think. No book in the world equals the Bible for that."

Mccosh | Books - Reading | 3 bookmarks