Today

"All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.”

- Seán O'Casey

“If you love deeply, you're going to get hurt badly. But it's still worth it.”

- C.S. Lewis

"The question, in brief, is whether democracy and freedom are values to be preserved or threats to be avoided. In this possibly terminal phase of human existence, democracy and freedom are more than values to be treasured, they may well be essential to survival.”

- Noam Chomsky

“in a world full of temporary things, you are a perpetual feeling.”

- Sanober Khan

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

- Vladimir Lenin

"If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it.”

- Mark Twain

“The liberty of a democracy is not safe if the people tolerated the growth of private power to a point where it becomes stronger than the democratic state itself. That in its essence is fascism: ownership of government by an individual, by a group, or any controlling private power.”

- Franklin D. Roosevelt

"I had always thought that our institutions would forever protect us against individual transgressors. But it turns out that our institutions need us as much as we need them."

-Marie Yovanovich

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard.”

- H.L. Mencken, A Little Book In C Major

“Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good.”

- H.L. Mencken