An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the long run. - James Russell Lowell
Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor. - James Russell Lowell
Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change. - James Russell Lowell
It is the privilege of genius that life never grows common place, as it does for the rest of us. - James Russell Lowell
If a speculator is correct half of the time, he is hitting a good average. Even being right 3 or 4 times out of 10 should yield a person a fortune if he has the sense to cut his losses quickly on the ventures where he is wrong. - Bernard Baruch
The result is - document destruction - we're really not going to be able to prove beyond a truth the negatives and some of the positive conclusions that we're going to come to. There will be always unresolved ambiguity here. - David Kay
It is good to express a thing twice right at the outset and so to give it a right foot and also a left one. Truth can surely stand on one leg, but with two it will be able to walk and get around. - Friedrich Nietzsche
It's innate in me to be a Democrat - a true Southern populist kind of Democrat. There's not a lot of those anymore. I'm not saying I'm right or wrong. That's just the way I feel. - Tim McGraw
If the facts are contrary to any predictions, then the hypothesis is wrong no matter how appealing. - David Douglass