Best Quotes
“Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.”
“Every year of my life I grow more convinced that it is wisest and best to fix our attention on the beautiful and the good, and dwell as little as possible on the evil and the false.”
-- Richard Cecil
“A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.”
-- H. L. Mencken
“Voting is a right best exercised by people who have taken time to learn about the issues.”
-- Tony Snow
“The best books for a man are not always those which the wise recommend, but often those which meet the peculiar wants, the natural thirst of his mind, and therefore awaken interest and rivet thought.”
-- William Ellery Channing
“I have believed the best of every man. And find that to believe is enough to make a bad man show him at his best, or even a good man swings his lantern higher.”
-- William Butler Yeats