He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

Strong prejudices in an ill-formed mind are hazardous to government.

I don't think you will crawl when you have legs to walk. I don't think you will walk when you have wings to fly.

Respect is a kind of magic too, you know.

Sometimes our best speech is the way we look in silence!

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

And Walker was made with a Mexican crew, although it was shot in Nicaragua.

All the vices lead to fortune when they are joined with the vilest of all--avarice. This is the secret of life.

Remember that all is opinion. For what was said by the Cynic Monimus is manifest: and manifest too is the use of what was said, if a man receives what may be got out of it as far as it is true.

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish.

Books are easily destroyed. But words will live as long as people can remember them.

By my love and my hope I beseech you - do not forsake hero in your soul!