Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

Life shouldn’t be about survival alone but about living

Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.

one of those world builders who do othing but destroy,

Mom would kill me if I showed my navel.

Angelina wanted to make sure that any fighting in the movie would be comparable to any male actor. Everything from stick fighting to horse riding was real to her.

It's taken me 30 years to get this way, and I don't intend to let go. I work hard, but I play hard, too, and that's the one part of me that nobody sees. But I intend to be around for a long time yet.

A little still she strove, and much repented, And whispering “I will ne'er consent”—consented.

I doubt that America will come to Europe again. You'll be on your own against militant Islam.

Romeo wouldn’t change his mind. That’s why people still remembered his name, always twined with hers.

Philosophy means nothing unless it is connected to birth, death, and the continuance of life. Anytime you are going to build a society that works, you have to begin from nature and the body.