On February 25, Theodore Roosevelt cabled naval commanders in the Pacific to prepare for military action against Spain. President McKinley ordered most of the cables undone, but he did leave Admiral George Dewey. Dewey was told to attack the Spanish fleet in the Philippines if the U.S. went to war with Spain.

Cuba rebelled against Spain in 1868 and fought for ten years.

The U.S.S. Maine was sent into Havana's harbor to protect American citizens and property and to intimidate the Cubans into behaving. Then it exploded on February 15. It killed more than 250 sailors.

Late in March, McKinley sent a list of demands to Spain, including; compensation for the Maine, an end to the reconcentration camps, a truce in Cuba, and Cuban independence. Spain accepted all but the last.

McKinley decided he could not stop the cries for war, even after Spain accepted all but the last of his demands. On April 11, 1898 he sent a war message to Congress. Not soon after that, Congress recognized Cuban independence and authorized force against Spain.

We have many cases of men committing suicide rather than face their own individuality. I know of no case of a woman who committed suicide because she was gay.

Stick to the basics, hold on to your family and friends - they will never go out of fashion.

I'm a nerdy, geeky fan of' Labyrinth' and 'Dark Crystal'.

Men rarely worry about using or being used because all relationships work that way. A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman. 'Use' is a dirty word only when there's an imbalance in the relationship.

Authors as diverse as Rudyard Kipling, E. Nesbit, and J. R. R. Tolkien have shaped modern paganism as greatly as any theological underpinnings.

We do have a problem in this country. You can either make a movie and ignore that, or you can acknowledge it and say, this is the water that we're living in. You know this - the movie lives in this - it's centered around this particular problem, and I chose to acknowledge it.

Honey, God loves everybody. It's human beings who mess things up.

Controlling people often demean or criticize others as a means of building themselves up and appearing superior and in control. In fact a controlling person is easy to spot from the constant monologue about how rotten stupid evil ridiculous annoying etc. Everyone else is presumably theyre never any of these things.

I'm thankful that my memory is good because my vision is going.

The shortage of buyers, which the world is suffering from, is readily understood, not as due to people not wishing to obtain possession of goods, but as people being unwilling to part with something which might earn a regular income in exchange for those goods.

I kind of like pony tails, beards, maybe a tattoo. My massive obsession - I'm really targeting a niche market here - a hair lip.

Nobody's going to fix the world for us, but working together, making use of technological innovations and human communities alike, we might just be able to fix it ourselves.

Writing is not an unknown territory for me.

I've got the Xbox 360, a Wii, and a PlayStation 3. I got everything you could think of.

I like the physical activity of gardening. It's kind of thrilling. I do a lot of weeding.

I don't have to show anything to anyone. There is nothing to prove.

Martyrdom is evidence only of a man's honesty - it is no evidence that he is not mistaken. Men have suffered martyrdom for all sorts of opinions in politics and in religion; yet they could not therefore have all been in the right; although they could give no stronger evidence that they believed themselves in the right.

Racial profiling is illegal, and I do not support it.

The more riches you have, the more you can share. So I like to share everything that I have that's of value.

My husband taught me so much about being a father. No matter what any of our children do, my husband will always believe in them, love them and accept them.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

You are the soul, free and eternal, ever free, ever blessed. Have faith enough and you will be free in a minute.

To grow up under really simple circumstances, and to understand that certain things were ornamental... that made an impression on me as a child and is something I use.

He is not someone who went off to play in Europe and only a few Americans follow. He has the potential to be on magazine covers and more newspaper coverage.