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• Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. -- --Aristotle
• We live in the kind of world where courage is the most essential of virtue
  without courage, the other virtues are useless. -- Edward Abbey...
• FORK, n. An instrument used chiefly for the purpose of putting dead animals into the mouth.
  Formerly the knife was employed for this purpose, and by many worthy persons is still thought to have many advantages over the other tool, which, however, they do not altogether reject, but use to assist in charging the knife....
• Courage is the ladder on which all other virtues mount. -- Clare Booth Luce
• Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce
• Few persons have sufficient wisdom to prefer censure which is useful to them, to praise which deceives them.
  -- La Rochefoucauld...
• Lead: A heavy blue-grey mineral most useful in imparting a sense of responsibility to those who love not wisely but other men's wives.
  -- Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary...
• Thus it is manifest that the best political community is formed by citizens of the middle cla
  and that those states are likely to be well-administered in which the middle class is large, and stronger if possible than both the other classes....
• I am for those means which will give the greatest good to the greatest number. -- Abraham Lincol