Altgeld Quotes

#1. What America did in Vietnam and the Congo - we feel. And as a result come these demonstrations. I am not defending the act of burning USIS books. We deplore it. But we can understand the motives of the students.

Sukarno

#2. If 2012 is the end of the world can I have a table for two at Ground Zero?

Stanley Victor Paskavich

#3. I simply wanted a kiss. I was a freshman girl who had never been kissed. Never. But I liked the boy, he liked me, and I was going to kiss him. That's the story, the whole story, right there.

Jay Asher

#4. Shakespeare, Leonardo da Vinci, Benjamin Franklin and Abraham Lincoln never saw a movie, heard a radio or looked at television. They had 'Loneliness' and knew what to do with it. They were not afraid of being lonely because they knew that was when the creative mood in them would work.

Carl Sandburg

#5. Justice, not expedience, must be the guiding light. The orator must fix his eye on the polestar of justice, and plough straight thither. The moment he glances toward expediency, he falls from his high estate.

John Peter Altgeld

#6. As labor creates the wealth of the country, we demand the passage of such laws as may be necessary to protect it in all its rights.

John Peter Altgeld

#7. To be perfectly honest, if it was up to me, I would be invisible as an artist.

Adrian Tomine

#8. The most important phase of a child's life was the beginning of it. He must be started right.

Caroline Pratt

#9. No man's ambitions (have) a right to stand in the way of performing a simple act of justice.

John Peter Altgeld

#10. Freedom of thought and freedom of speech in our great institutions are absolutely necessary for the preservation of our country. The moment either is restricted, liberty begins to wither and die ...

John Peter Altgeld

#11. Love Comes Quickly is our favourite record ever, and it did really badly.

Chris Lowe

#12. taken Society and Economic Change, I assume?" Yes, but I assume you've never taken Poverty and Inequality.

Willa Thorne