Rebekah

“You cannot reason a person out of a position he did not reason himself into in the first place.”
― Jonathan Swift

“Only ignorance! only ignorance! how can you talk about only ignorance? Don't you know that it is the worst thing in the world, next to wickedness? -- and which does the most mischief heaven only knows. If people can say, 'Oh! I did not know, I did not mean any harm,' they think it is all right.”
― Anna Sewell, Black Beauty

“Don't worry," he said. "We fight our best when we're losing.”
― Adam Makos, A Higher Call: An Incredible True Story of Combat and Chivalry in the War-Torn Skies of World War II

“[...] people do not wish to see uncertainty, conflicting opinions, long debate, competing interests, confusion, bargaining, and compromised, imperfect solutions. They want government to do its job quietly and efficiently, sans conflict and sans fuss. In short, we submit, they often seek a patently unrealistic form of democracy.”
― John R. Hibbing and Elizabeth Theiss-Morse