Life is to be entered upon with courage. – Alexis de Tocqueville

Concentrate your energies, your thoughts and your capital. The wise man puts all his eggs in one basket and watches the basket. – Andrew Carnegie

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings. – Samuel Johnson

I like a man who grins when he fights. – Winston Churchill

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. – Albert Einstein

I was raised in the shadow of the University – I was educated there – so were my sons and grand-sons; and I have always had for my Alma Mater as much pride and affection as any pupil ever felt for the great Masters of the school of Athens. – John S. Mosby, on the University of Virginia

Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote. – Benjamin Franklin

It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt. – Mark Twain

A billion here, a billion there, sooner or later it adds up to real money. – Everett Dirksen, U.S. Senator

Boredom is a vital problem for the moralist, since at least half the sins of mankind are caused by the fear of it. – Bertrand Russell

I never have more than one drink before dinner. But I do like that one to be large and very strong and very cold and very well made. – James Bond (Ian Fleming), Casino Royale

Business is a means - the only means - to increase the quantity of goods available for preserving life and rendering it more agreeable. – Ludwig von Mises

Death is not an event in life; we do not live to experience death. If we take eternity to mean not infinite temporal duration but timelessness, then eternal life belongs to those who live in the present. – Ludwig Wittgenstein

What good fortune for governments that the people do not think. – Adolf Hitler

Never stand begging for that which you have the power to earn. – Miguel de Cervantes

Make no small plans, for they have no power to stir the soul. – Niccolo Machiavelli

I just want an opportunity to fail. – Sgt. Andy McCaffrey, disabled veteran of the war in the Iraq who is asking to be redeployed

Actually, today I had to defend the Bush Administration in France again. They refuse to accept, because of their political ideology, that he has actually done more than any American president for Africa. But it’s empirically so. – Bob Geldof, quoted in Time Magazine on June 27, 2005

Three failures denote uncommon strength. A weakling has not enough grit to fail thrice. – Minna Thomas Antrim

The second day of July, 1776, will be the most memorable epocha in the history of America. I am apt to believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be commemorated as the day of deliverance, by solemn acts of devotion to God Almighty. It ought to be solemnized with pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations, from one end of this continent to the other, from this time forward for evermore. – John Adams, July 3^rd, 1776