Federals Quotes

#1. Awakened by artillery fire, the frightened Confederate recruits ran out of town, some still in their bedclothes. The Federals gave this embarrassing retreat the derisive nickname of "The Battle of the Philippi Races.

Clint Johnson

#2. Society seldom forgives those who have discovered the emptiness of its pleasures, and who can live independent of it and them.

Marguerite Gardiner, Countess Of Blessington

#3. I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

Jim Wallis

#4. It is a poor, unwise and very imbecile people who cannot take care of themselves.

Brigham Young

#5. To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.

Robin Sharma

#6. MacKinnon's treatment of the central issue of pornography as she herself poses it - the harm that pornography does to women - is shockingly causal. Much of her evidence is anecdotal, and in a nation of 260 Million people, anecdotes are a weak form of evidence.

Richard Posner

#7. You're thinking of Eurpoe as Germany and France. I don't. I think that's old Europe.

Donald Rumsfeld

#8. Ignorance is a voluntary condition.

Herbert V. Prochnow

#9. I have a theory that evolutionary biologists are more vain than particle physicists.

Robin Ince

#10. Who am I? The sum of your dreams, the thrill you refuse to grasp, the unknown you fear.

Neal Shusterman

#11. I want a man who knows something about himself. And is appalled. And has to forgive himself to get along.

C.P. Snow

#12. Things at the worst will cease, or else climb upward
To what they were before.

William Shakespeare

#13. When I was handed a hammer, my first project was building a three-story tree house.

Ty Pennington

#14. (Wiis? Wiii? What is the plural?)

Rachel Cohn

#15. When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Joseph Heller