Steenhouwersvest Quotes & Sayings

Of our political revolution of '76, we all are justly proud. It has given us a degree of political freedom, far exceeding that of any other nation of the earth. In it the world has found a solution of the long mooted problem, as to the capability of man to govern himself. In it was the germ which has vegetated, and still is to grow and expand into the universal liberty of mankind. — Abraham Lincoln

Internal self-government under a local constitution was authorized by Congress and approved by the residents in 1952, but federal law is supreme in Puerto Rico and residents do not have voting representation in the Congress. — Dick Thornburgh

Be the change that you wish to see in the world. — Mahatma Gandhi

Beauty is just a light switch away ... 'click!' Beauty is not caused. It is. — Emily Dickinson

I want to settle down this last time. I say last, because I don't think I'm in any condition to live a long time from now. The bell's gonna ring pretty soon. — Elaine Stritch

You are almost not free, if you are teaching a group of graduate students, to become friends with one of them. I don't mean anything erotically charged, just a friendship. — Marilyn Hacker