We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Walt Kelly
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
- G. K. Chesterton
Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
- E. B. White
Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes