An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.
Thomas Jefferson

Words mean more than what is set down on paper. It takes the human voice to infuse them with deeper meaning.
Maya Angelou

The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.
Maya Angelou

If you're walking down the right path and you're willing to keep walking, eventually you'll make progress.
Barack Obama

Mr Gorbachev, tear down this wall!
Ronald Reagan

Only buy something that you'd be perfectly happy to hold if the market shut down for 10 years.
Warren Buffett

Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe.
Abraham Lincoln

Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another, but let him work diligently and build one for himself, thus by example assuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
Abraham Lincoln

If I had eight hours to chop down a tree, I'd spend six hours sharpening my ax.
Abraham Lincoln

I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.
Abraham Lincoln

Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak; courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen.
Winston Churchill

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.
Winston Churchill

The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts.
C. S. Lewis

It's not whether you get knocked down, it's whether you get up.
Vince Lombardi

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

There is nothing more tragic than to find an individual bogged down in the length of life, devoid of breadth.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

I don't go down the road of condemning.
Joel Osteen

All our words are but crumbs that fall down from the feast of the mind.
Kahlil Gibran

Only a man who knows what it is like to be defeated can reach down to the bottom of his soul and come up with the extra ounce of power it takes to win when the match is even.
Muhammad Ali

I figure I'll be champ for about ten years and then I'll let my brother take over - like the Kennedys down in Washington.
Muhammad Ali