If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men I will find something in them which will hang him.

If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him.

Friendship is the medicine for all misfortune; but ingratitude dries up the fountain of all goodness.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Had Luther and Calvin been confined before they had begun to dogmatize, the states would have been spared many troubles.

First, all means to conciliate; failing that, all means to crush.

A single word has sometimes lost or won an empire.

If God forbade drinking, would He have made wine so good?

Nothing so upholds the laws as the punishment of persons whose rank is as great as their crime.

Give me six lines written by the most honorable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows.

Deception is the knowledge of kings.

Always say yes and try before you say no.

Marriage has no guarantees. If that's what you're looking for go live with a car battery.

An organization's intelligence is distributed to the point of being ubiquitous.

Iran is a huge country and much, much more sophisticated than most people imagine... It certainly has the potential to be at least the way Turkey is to most Americans.

I could almost see common sense and denial fighting away at each other within her. In the end, denial won, as it so often does.

You cannot enjoy others until you enjoy yourself because you cannot give to others what you do not have.

One in seven Americans lives without health insurance, and that's a truly staggering figure.

Truth and nonviolence demand that no human being may debar himself from serving any other human being, no matter how sinful he may be.

When you're doing some things that are damaging you, you don't really realise it at the time.

This is my child. I planted it. I saw it grow. I loved it. Don't cut it down.