Bed Quote by Anonymous

When I'm an old dude in a rocking chair, I'll have these great war stories.

— Matt Serra

The history of ancient and modern republics had taught them that many of the evils which those republics suffered arose from the want of…

— Alexander Hamilton

If I desired to kill the senator why did I not do it? You all admit that I had him in my power.

— Preston Brooks

In the good old days when I was a senator, I was my own man.

— Joe Biden

“that the whole nation, tired of war, actually only longed for order, quiet, and a little security and bourgeois life. And, secretly it hated…

— Stefan Zweig

Politically I did not like Mr. Lincoln, for in him I saw the destroyer.

— Belle Boyd

Any commands which Congress may have for me shall be cheerfully executed by one of their earliest soldiers, whose happiness it is to think…

— Marquis de Lafayette

Only in a nation like ours could someone like me, the scrappy son of a simple carpenter, grow up to become a simple senator.

— Orrin Hatch

“Soldiers were the backbone of a people, but the leader was the head and heart. We had to make the big choices, the hard…

— Jaymin Eve

“That was an ordinary way for a patriotic American to talk back then. It’s hard to believe how sick of war we used to…

— Kurt Vonnegut

“The besom of reform hath swept him out of office, and a worthier successor wears his dignity and pockets his emoluments.”

— Nathaniel Hawthorne

Secrets, silent, stony sit in the dark palaces of both our hearts: secrets weary of their tyranny: tyrants willing to be dethroned.

— James Joyce