Defeat begins with the fear that one had lost.

Do you shovel to survive, or survive to shovel?

Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.

A lot of political music to me can be rather pedantic and corny, and when it's done right - like Bruce Springsteen or Jackson Browne or great satire from Randy Newman, there's nothing better.

It so happens that the world is undergoing a transformation to which no change that has yet occurred can be compared, either in scope or in rapidity.

I'd always somehow felt slightly as if I'd been born in the wrong country.

I knew it might put him in an awkward position that we had a discussion before finality has finally happened in this presidential race.

I have discovered nothing new; I have only perceived what I already knew.

Who fastest walks, but walks astray, Is only furthest from his way.

There's nothing like confidence.

Loyalty consists of many things, including being truthful with our friends. When you really disagree, you have to say so.

The consolidation of the states into one vast empire, sure to be aggressive abroad and despotic at home, will be the certain precursor of ruin which has overwhelmed all that preceded it.