#ran

Mutual forbearance and reciprocal concessions: thro' their agency the Union was established - the patriotic spirit from which they emanated will forever sustain it. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#concessions #emanated #established #forbearance #forever

Those who have wrought great changes in the world never succeeded by gaining over chiefs; but always by exciting the multitude. The first is the resource of intrigue and produces only secondary results, the second is the resort of genius and transforms the universe. ↗

— Martin Van Buren

#changes #chiefs #exciting #first #gaining

The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#admit #another #bold #common #common sense

I liked Latin, I like languages, I liked all the myths, and the Roman tales that we were required to translate in Latin, and all these interesting people who were never quite what they thought they would be or seemed to be. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#interesting #interesting people #languages #latin #like

Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#beer #brandy #called #cares #condition

We can realise a lasting peace and transform the East-West relationship to one of enduring co-operation. ↗

— George H. W. Bush

#enduring #lasting #lasting peace #peace #realise

I used to love to play dress-up, where you get your mother's or your grandmother's dresses and high heels. ↗

— Suzanne Farrell

#dresses #get #grandmother #heels #high

When you head on out to the Moon, in very short order, and you get a chance to look back at the Earth, that horizon slowly curves around in upon himself, and all of sudden you're looking at something that is very strange, but yet is very, very familiar, because you're beginning to see the Earth evolve. ↗

— Gene Cernan

#back #because #beginning #chance #curves

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants. ↗

— Edmund Burke

#extinguished #heart #keeps #minds #moderation

I say to you quite frankly that the time for racial discrimination is over. ↗

— Jimmy Carter

#frankly #i #over #quite #quite frankly