#ld

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance. ↗

— Barbara Jordan

#belief #between #everything #government #idea

We gathered all the stock we could find, and made an attempt to move. We left many of our horses and cattle in Wallowa. We lost several hundred in crossing the river. ↗

— Chief Joseph

#cattle #could #crossing #find #gathered

In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility - I welcome it. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#danger #defending #few #freedom #generations

The soldier's main enemy is not the opposing soldier, but his own commander. ↗

— Ramman Kenoun

#enemy #his #main #opposing #own

Things were here before you and will be here after you're gone. The geographic features, especially, give you a sense of your own place in the world and in time. ↗

— Tracy Kidder

#before #especially #features #geographic #give

We could in fact transport a person, say a kid who didn't know what it was like to be in a civil rights march. We could actually take you into that experience, so that you could better appreciate what happened and why it happened. ↗

— Dexter S. King

#appreciate #better #civil #civil rights #could

Now the only thing I miss about sex is the cigarette afterward. Next to the first one in the morning, it's the best one of all. It tasted so good that even if I had been frigid I would have pretended otherwise just to be able to smoke it. ↗

— Florence King

#about #been #best #cigarette #even

Good writers are in the business of leaving signposts saying, Tour my world, see and feel it through my eyes; I am your guide. ↗

— Larry King

#business #eyes #feel #good #guide

I don't know anyone at the highest levels who approved Abu Ghraib. If President Barack Obama for a moment thought that somebody at a high level had approved it, he would go after them. ↗

— Peter King

#after #anyone #approved #barack #barack obama

One should mature over 20 years. ↗

— Aung San Suu Kyi

#over #should #years