#ton

For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'. ↗

Hoods are good parts because they're always flashy and attract attention. If you've got any ability, you can use that as a stepping stone. ↗

— Richard Widmark

#always #any #attention #attract #because

During the 2008 campaign, I strongly endorsed Barack Obama for president. I did so early, when many Democratic leaders - including many prominent African-American politicians - believed the safe bet was to back then-front-runner Hillary Clinton. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#back #barack #barack obama #believed #bet

Since Obama has expressed admiration for the portrait of Abraham Lincoln that Doris Kearns Goodwin paints in 'Team of Rivals,' he could do the 16th president one better: He should name Hillary Clinton as his running mate in 2012. That would be both needed change and audacious. ↗

— Douglas Wilder

#abraham lincoln #admiration #audacious #better #both

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government. ↗

— George Will

#central #central government #country #government #hamilton

I suppose there's a melancholy tone at the back of the American mind, a sense of something lost. And it's the lost world of Thomas Jefferson. It is the lost sense of innocence that we could live with a very minimal state, with a vast sense of space in which to work out freedom. ↗

— George Will

#back #could #freedom #i #innocence

In Washington, DC, politics dominate even the most casual conversations. ↗

— Armstrong Williams

#conversations #dc #dominate #even #most

But if you're looking to be spooked by really tall trees then you've got to go to Washington State. ↗

— Dar Williams

#got #looking #really #state #tall

That's what prison did for me, it isolated me, you know, it polished me up like a stone. ↗

— Jayson Williams

#isolated #know #like #me #polished

Newton, of course, was the inventor of differential calculus so his place in the tale is quite special. ↗