#fr

When there's an idiot driving crazily in front of you, that can wind the best of you up. ↗

— Clive Owen

#driving #front #idiot #up #wind

I wish thy lot, now bad, still worse, my friend, for when at worst, they say, things always mend. ↗

— John Owen

#bad #friend #i #i wish #lot

Fulfill - you can far more than fulfill - the brightest anticipations of those who, in the name of human freedom, and in the face of threats that have ripened into terrible realities since, fought that battle which placed you where you now stand. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#battle #brightest #face #far #fought

After voluntary exertions on the part of our people to which the history of the world furnishes no parallel, is the old root of bitterness still to remain in the ground, to sprout and bear fruit in the future as it has borne fruit in the past? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#bear #bitterness #borne #exertions #fruit

If, amid the multitude of contending counsel, you have hesitated and doubted; if, when a great measure suggested itself, you have shrunk from the vast responsibility, afraid to go forward lest you should go wrong, what wonder? ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#amid #contending #counsel #doubted #forward

It is within your power at this very moment not only to consumate an act of enlightened statesmanship, but, as the instrument of the Almighty, to restore to freedom a race of men. ↗

— Robert Dale Owen

#almighty #enlightened #freedom #instrument #men

A Poem does not grow by jerks. As trees in Spring produce a new ring of tissue, so does every poet put forth a fresh outlay of stuff at the same season. ↗

— Wilfred Owen

#every #forth #fresh #grow #jerks

A renewed commitment to the freedom and opportunity of our people is the touchstone of our time. In this new century, where tests are many and challenges change with the shifting of the wind, we must hold fast to the principles that have made our nation the envy of the world. ↗

— Bill Owens

#challenges #change #commitment #envy #fast

Freedom is contagious. That's why despots fear it so much. ↗

— Bill Owens

#despots #fear #freedom #much #why

I believe the Patriot Act strikes the right balance needed to protect our freedom and security. ↗

— Bill Owens

#balance #believe #freedom #i #i believe