In politics, reality and appearance are of equal importance. You cannot attend to one and neglect the other. A man must determine both what he is, and what others believe him to be.

The general of a large army may be defeated, but you cannot defeat the determined mind of a peasant.

I don't read reviews, and I don't include the press as part of my priorities or as part of the world that has any validity to what's really important to me.

Innovations and discoveries have created new industries giving more and more Americans better jobs and adding greatly to the prosperity and well being of all.

Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

If we have data, let's look at data. If all we have are opinions, let's go with mine.

Peter is ... adjusting. He's back in school, and he's doing quite well. I wish you could find it in your heart to forgive him." "I've got this funny resentful streak about people who try to kill me.

You may honestly feel grateful that homeopathy survived the attempts of the allopaths (orthodoxy) to destroy it.

Hope and change are hard-fought things.

...for though the flame of liberty may sometimes cease to shine, the coal can never expire.

The reader can't take much for granted in a fiction where the scenery can eat the characters.