turbulent quotes

The experience of democracy is like the experience of life itselfalways changing, infinite in its variety, sometimesturbulent and allthemorevaluableforhaving been tested by adversity.

-Jimmy (James Earl) Carter
  Address to the Parliament of India, 2  Jun.

Will no one rid me of this turbulent priest?

-Henry II
  Of Thomas   a' Becket. Quoted in W L  Warren Henry II, p508. Four of Henry's soldiers took his words to heart and proceeded to Canterbury, where they murdered Becket in the cathedral.