Let us retreat when we can, not when we must. Lord Chatham

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

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

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.

The worst thing a kid can say about homework is that it is too hard. The worst thing a kid can say about a game is it's too easy.

When you love another deeply, you gain strength. When you receive anothers deep love, you gain courage

Well it just looks so ugly. Is it a boy or is it a girl?

Clarity is the ability to see the soul in action in the physical world.

I've been turning it over in after-dinner speeches, but it looks awkward-it's not what people are used to-it wants a good deal of Latin to make it go down.

Knowledge is no burden.

God pity the man of science who believes in nothing but what he can prove by scientific methods; for if ever a human being needed divine pity, he does.

The economy is just a metaphorical device, it’s not real. That's why it's got the word con in it.

Whenever you do an animated project or a voice-over project it's inevitable that part of your personality comes into play.