Time wounds all heels.
Julius H. Marx

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Samuel L. Clemens

Life is like a sewer; what you get out of it depends on what you put into it.
Tom Lehrer

Character consists of avoiding fools, not in conquering them; I seek no victory for the honour of my soul.
Moses Maimonides

Christianity neither is, nor ever was, a part of the common law.
Thomas Jefferson

Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin

In every country and in every age, the priest has been hostile to liberty.   He is always in alliance with the despot, abetting his abuses in return for protection to his own.
Thomas Jefferson

If we can't persuade nations of comparable values of the merit of our cause, we'd better re-examine our reasons.
Robert S. McNamara

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much; it is whether we provide enough for those who have too little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

You vowed to liberate the Holy Land but you rashly turned away from the purity of your vow when you took up arms not against Saracens but Christians. ... The Greek Church has seen in the Latins nothing other than an example of affliction and the works of Hell, so that now it rightly detests them more than dogs.
Pope Innocent III

Blessed are the poor in spirit: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are the meek: for they shall posses the land.
Blessed are they who mourn: for they shall be comforted.
Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.
Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the clean of heart: for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers: for they shall be called the children of God.
Blessed are they that suffer persecution for justice' sake, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
A philosopher who was definitely a liberal.

Why should the Arabs make peace? If I was an Arab leader I would never make terms with Israel. That is natural: we have taken their country. Sure God promised it to us, but what does that matter to them? Our God is not theirs. We come from Israel, but two thousand years ago, and what is that to them? There has been antisemitism, the Nazis, Hitler, Auschwitz, but was that their fault? They only see one thing: we have come here and stolen their country. Why should they accept that? They may perhaps forget in one or two generations' time, but for the moment there is no chance. So, it's simple: we have to stay strong and maintain a powerful army. Our whole policy is there. Otherwise the Arabs will wipe us out.
David Ben Gurion, as quoted by Nahum Goldmann in The Jewish Paradox : A Personal Memoir (1978), translated by Steve Cox