• Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter.
• The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the salve of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events – Winston Churchill

• We decry violence all the time in this country, but look at our history.  We were born in a violent revolution, and we’ve been in wars ever since.  We’re not a pacific people – James Lee Burke

• Over the long hand of life on this planet, it is the ecologists, and not the bookkeepers of business, who are the ultimate accountants – Stewart Udall

• Hugging trees has a calming effect on me.  I’m talking about enormous trees that will be there when we are all dead and gone.  I’ve hugged trees in every part of this little island – Gerry Adams

• If you would not be forgotten, As soon as you are dead and rotten, Either write things worthy reading, Or do things worth the writing.

• Dachshunds are ideal dogs for small children, as they are already stretched and pulled to such a length that the child cannot do much harm one way or the other – Robert Benchley

• If we had no winter, the spring would not be so pleasant; if we did not sometimes taste of adversity; prosperity would not be so welcome – Josh Billings

• We have moved into an era where we are called upon to raise certain basic questions about the whole society.  We are still called upon to give aid to the beggar who finds himself in misery and agony on life’s highway.  But one day, we must ask the question of whether an edifice which produces beggars must not be restructured and refurbished.

• I think perhaps the most important problem is that we are trying to understand the fundamental workings of the universe via a language devised for telling one another when the best fruit is – Terry Prachett

• When beholding the tranquil beauty and brilliancy of the ocean’s skin, one forgets the tiger heart that pants beneath it; and would not willingly remember that this velver paw but conceals a remorseless fang – Herman Melville

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