History shows how feeble are barriers of paper.

The history of the Franks becomes, therefore, the history of the Netherlands.

A third force, developing itself more slowly, becomes even more potent than the rest: the power of gold.

Monuments! what are they? the very pyramids have forgotten their builders, or to whom they were dedicated. Deeds, not stones, are the true monuments of the great.

In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.

The crusades made great improvement in the condition of the serfs.

A soil, exhausted by the long culture of Pagan empires, was to lie fallow for a still longer period.

Thus the whole country was broken into many shreds and patches of sovereignty.

A good lawyer is a bad Christian.

To the Calvinists, more than to any other class of men, the political liberties of Holland, England, and America are due.

Enthusiasm could not supply the place of experience.

Only one who loves can remember so well.

It means, Doug Swieteck, that in this class, you are not your brother.

Death was far more certain than God.

I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart.

Do you know, Masha, how revelation comes? Like death. So sudden, though you knew all along it must occur. A revelation is always the end of something. It might even be cause for grief.

I think it's this congenital problem with journalism that we oversell the difference we make. We make small differences.

The only thing I've ever regretted is not writing more; not being more honest; not saying how it really is in Baghdad. It's hard to get there sometimes.

I get bored in Hollywood.

The Whitehouse is talking different because we are walking different

I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.