Skönheten i för och sig är ett gott, emedan den stegrar vår livskänsla och mångfaldigar våra glädjeämnen.
– Ellen Key, författare, humanist (1849-1926).
High taxes reach everywhere and burden everybody. They gear most heavily upon the poor. They diminish industry and commerce. They make agriculture unprofitable. They increase the rates on transportation. They are a charge on every necessary of life.
– Calvin Coolidge, State of the Union Address, 1923.
People don’t seem to understand that it’s damn war out there. Maybe my methods aren’t socially acceptable to some, but it’s what I have to do to survive. I don’t go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.
– Jimmy Connors, åttafaldig Grand Slam-vinnare. Den 14 maj kommer hans memoarer The Outsider.