In proportion that property is small, the danger of misusing the franchisee is great.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Even his own speeches bored him.

Peace does not walk up to our doorsteps and press the calling bell! We have to go out there and search for it.

it struck me as an operational way to define free will, in a way that allowed you to reconcile free will with determinism. The system is deterministic, but you can’t say what it’s going to do next.

I think the future for solar energy is bright.

A tender sadness drops upon my soul, like the soft twilight dropping on the world.

I've always loved to sing and dance, but the caliber of my talent in those areas obviously is not nearing Patti LuPone or Sutton Foster.

..Advantage of the Bible is that it is profitable for training in righteous living.

Pulling off a zebra-print dress can be challenging for some.

To attract joy and create more success, try doing less but doing it with more enthusiasm.

A policy is a temporary creed liable to be changed, but while it holds good it has got to be pursued with apostolic zeal.

It was a symptom of the insanity of human beings in a cosmos obviously designed for them to live in, but which they industriously prepare to make unlivable.