#pol

This is Just to Say I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox and which you were probably saving for breakfast Forgive me they were delicious so sweet and so cold ↗

— William Carlos Williams

#poetry #forgiveness

I loved and adored you, but I drained you like a thirsty man at a spring. I loved what you could give me - your admiration, your acceptance, your love, your forgiveness. I forgot to love you for yourself. ↗

— Jennifer Ashley

#forgiveness #love #forgiveness

We must try again to be alive to what the people of our country really long for in our national life: forgiveness and grace, maturity and wisdom. ...Our political leaders will know our priorities only if we tell them, again and again, and if those priorities begin to show up in the polls. ↗

— Peggy Noonan

#polls #priorities #voting #forgiveness

Because I'm not, in fact, depressed, Prozac makes me manic and numb - one of the reasons I slice my arm in the first place is that I'm coked to the gills on something utterly wrong for what I have. ↗

— Marya Hornbacher

#marya-hornbacher #mental-illness #life

Isn’t it funny? You forgive people before they ask forgiveness. Later they expect your apologize. ↗

— M.F. Moonzajer

#expect #funny #forgiveness

We need to understand the more government spends, the more freedom is lost...Instead of simply debating spending levels, we ought to be debating whether the departments, agencies, and programs funded by the budget should exist at all. ↗

— Ron Paul

#freedom

I predict future happiness for Americans, if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them. ↗

— Thomas Jefferson

#government #politics #freedom

Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear." [Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950] ↗

— Harry S. Truman

#dissent #freedom-of-speech #opposition #politics #repression

Despair is typical of those who do not understand the causes of evil, see no way out, and are incapable of struggle. ↗

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

#democracy #freedom #history #hope #individualism

The truly revolutionary promise of our nation's founding document is the freedom to pursue happiness-with-a-capital-H. ↗

— Dan Savage

#happiness #politics #freedom