People who don't cherish their elderly have forgotten whence they came and whither they go.

We're not a democracy. It's a terrible misunderstandin g and a slander to the idea of democracy to call us that. In reality, we're a plutocracy: a government by the wealthy.

The measure of your quality as a public person, as a citizen, is the gap between what you do and what you say.

A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.

The greatest crime since World War II has been U.S. foreign policy.

Islam is the only religion that gives dignity to the poor.

There are few better measures of the concern a society has for its individual members and its own well being than the way it handles criminals.

This country of ours has committed the most serious act of aggression in its history by engaging in a war of aggression without a declaration of war by Congress.

Who will protect the public when the police violate the law?

The great and constant need of those who investigate homicide and practice forensic pathology or criminal law is a warm humanism.

Violence is the ultimate human degradation.

A curious mind enjoys inquiring, experimenting and discovering.

CONGRATULATIONS DL Havlin! Your entry, "There are No Lights in Naples", an unpublished short fiction - flash fiction genre category, is a finalist for the 2016 Royal Palm Literary Awards competition!

Every good relationship, especially marriage, is based on respect. If it's not based on respect, nothing that appears to be good will last very long.

Older men start wars, but younger men fight them.

A whole generation of writers dined out on the dialectic between original cultures and their culture by "progress.

I try to live a faith-filled life. I'm a believer.

My parents dreaded the fact that I was changing my life to do this, but I just kept doing it.

Growing up, my sisters were both into dancing, so I went to a lot of dance recitals, mostly because there were always pretty girls in leotards.

Other things may be seized by might, or purchased with money, but knowledge is to be gained only by study, and study to be prosecuted only in retirement.

My most earnest wish is to see the republican element of popular control pushed to the maximum of its practicable exercise. I shall then believe that our government may be pure and perpetual.