Commodore Stephen Decatur Quotes

#1. One of the things about equality is not just that you be treated equally to a man, but that you treat yourself equally to the way you treat a man.

Marlo Thomas

#2. The only way of really finding out a man's true character is to play golf with him. In no other walk of life does the cloven hoof so quickly display itself.

P.G. Wodehouse

#3. These ball boys are marvellous. You don't even notice them. There's a left handed one over there. I noticed him earlier .

Max Robertson

#4. With the pride of the artist, you must blow against the walls of every power that exists the small trumpet of your defiance.

Norman Mailer

#5. Governments regard their own citizens as their main enemy, and they have to be - protect themselves. That's why you have state secret laws. Citizens are not supposed to know what their government is doing to them.

Noam Chomsky

#6. I know I would crumble if I lost you.

Shannon Hale

#7. What happened December 12?" Polyester asks.
I look at the wall, my attention suddenly riveted by a palmetto bug, feelers writhing. I could kill it if I wanted.
He hit me."
The bug slides to the floor.

Alex Flinn

#8. My feeling is that the hero has now been defined by phrases like the odious one that we were all raised with - crimes does not pay. Of course it pays, you schmuck. That's not why we don't do it. We don't do it because it is wrong.

Frank Miller

#9. Choosing makes you the leader of your life!

Karen James

#10. The temptation was great to muster what force we could and put up a fight. It's the easiest way out, and the most satisfactory to self-respect
but, nearly invariably, the stupidest.

Isaac Asimov

#11. Durhallem, Ydramil, Wrommish, Paedle, Truska-Pren, Wheklam, and Ordna.

James A. Moore