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- Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the little voice at the end of that day that says, "I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
- Those who try to give us advice on matters of human rights do nothing but provoke an ironic smile among us. We will not permit anyone to interfere in our affairs.
- Konstantin Chernenko
- Besides anarchy, the worst thing in this world is government.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- When you get into a tight place and it seems that you can't go on, hold on--for that's just the place and the time that the tide will turn.
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896)
- Being powerful is a lot like being a woman: If you have to tell someone that you are, invariably, you are not.
- Margaret Thatcher (1925 - )
- Well behaved women seldom make history.
- Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
- Courage does not always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
- Mary Anne Radmacher
- Liberty!--Electric word! What is it? Is there anything more in it than a name--a rhetorical flourish? Why, men and women of America, does your hearts blood thrill at that word, for which your fathers bled, and your braver mothers were willing that their noblest and best should die? Is there anything in it glorious and dear for a nation, that is not also glorious and dear for a man?
- Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811 - 1896), Uncle Tom's Cabin, page 441 in the Barnes & Noble Classics version
- Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
- The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one.
- J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
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