"And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever." — Thomas Jefferson

The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing that you will make one. –Elbert Hubbard

It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. — Albert Einstein

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new." — Albert Einstein

"A professional politician is a professionally dishonorable man. In order to get anywhere near high office he has to make so many compromises and submit to so many humiliations that he becomes indistinguishable from a streetwalker." — H. L. Mencken

"The difference between truth and fiction: fiction has to make sense." — Mark Twain