We are confronted with insurmountable opportunities.
- Walt Kelly

Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses to submit to the small and arrogant oligarchy of those who merely happen to be walking about.
- G. K. Chesterton

Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half the time.
- E. B. White

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity. They seem more afraid of life than death.
- James F. Byrnes