An appearance of delicacy, and even fragility, is almost essential to beauty.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

We believed we were safe. That was the big fantasy.

To be free of fear is to be full of Love.

Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public revenues and from office, men want to be always in office.

Information doesn't mean a thing to people without inspiration.

I find it very annoying when people want to sit next to each other at a booth.

We class schools into four grades: leading school, first-rate school, good school and school.

More bad news for the Taliban. Remember how they are promised 72 virgins when they die? Turns out that it's only one 72-year-old virgin.

Government is an unnecessary evil.

I sighed; as comforting as it may be to some of us, sarcasm, like youth, is wasted on the young.

Only a few know, how much one must know to know how little one knows.