#al

My faith always has been and always will be important to me. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#been #faith #important #me #will

There's a mystery to writing, and you don't really know where most of it comes from. ↗

— Neil Diamond

#know #most #mystery #really #where

Falling out of love is like losing weight. It's a lot easier putting it on than taking it off. ↗

— Aretha Franklin

#falling #like #losing #lot #love

They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#essential #give #liberty #little #neither

Self-professed liberals are only 15 to 20% of the electorate. ↗

— Paul Weyrich

#liberals #only

Hide not your talents. They for use were made. What's a sundial in the shade? ↗

— Benjamin Franklin

#made #shade #talents #use #were

We also learn that this country and the Western world have no monopoly of goodness and truth and scholarship, we begin to appreciate the ingredients that are indispensable to making a better world. In a life of learning that is, perhaps, the greatest lesson of all. ↗

— John Hope Franklin

#appreciate #begin #better #better world #country

Christmas in Bethlehem. The ancient dream: a cold, clear night made brilliant by a glorious star, the smell of incense, shepherds and wise men falling to their knees in adoration of the sweet baby, the incarnation of perfect love. ↗

— Lucinda Franks

#adoration #ancient #baby #bethlehem #brilliant

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror. ↗

— George Wald

#nothing #nuclear #nuclear weapons #offer #still

The Western world, the free world, loses what it cherishes most, and that is freedom and liberty we've seen for a couple of hundred years in this grand experiment that we call democracy. ↗

— Tommy Franks

#cherishes #couple #democracy #experiment #free