"The republic is a dream. Nothing happens unless first a dream." - Carl Sandburg (1922)

"Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide." - John Adams (1814)

"Freedom is never given; it is won." - A. Philip Randolph (1937)

"None who have always been free can understand the terrible fascinating power of the hope of freedom to those who are not free." - Pearl S. Buck

"The surface of American society is covered with a layer of democratic paint, but from time to time one can see the old aristocratic colors breaking through." - Alexis de Tocqueville (1840)

"Discussion in America means dissent." - James Thurber (1961)

"The destiny of the colored America is the destiny of America." - Frederick Douglass (1862)

"The danger of a conflict between the white and the black inhabitants perpetually haunts the imagination of the Americans like a bad dream." Alexis de Tocqueville (1835)

"Their name is on your water, ye may not wash it out." - Lydia Huntley Sigourney, Indian Names (1841)

"Remember always that all of us . . . are descended from immigrants and revolutionists." - Franklin D. Roosevelt (1938)

"There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America." - Bill Clinton (1993)

"Politics is the reflex of the business and industrial world." - Emma Goldman (1910)

"All politics is local." - Thomas P. "Tip" O'Neill

"Practical politics consists of ignoring facts." - Henry Adams

"Ma, ma, where's my pa?" - Campaign slogan against Grover Cleveland (1884)

"I have not yet begun to fight." - John Paul Jones when asked to surrender (1779)