No class of Americans, so far as I know, has ever objected . . . to any amount of governmental meddling if it appeared to benefit that particular class.

The significance of man is that he is insignificant and is aware of it.

All historians, even the most scientific, have bias, if in no other sense than the determination not to have any.

History is the memory of things said and done.

History is an indispensable even though not the highest form of intellectual endeavor.

To ask whether the natural rights philosophy of the Declaration of Independence is true or false, is essentially a meaningless question.

Corporations have at different times been so far unable to distinguish freedom of speech from freedom of lying that their freedom has to be curbed.

Writer does nothing, But think deeply.

History is the only true teacher, the revolution the best school for the proletariat.

I strive for an architecture from which nothing can be taken away.

I would've been intrigued by being a film director. I would've been intrigued by politics. I thought about architecture.

When you look back from your Olympic experience, you never want to question whether you could have done more. The one thing you can control is your off-ice preparation.

There is a single thread of attitude, a single direction of flow, that joins our present time to it's early burgeoning in Mediterranean civilization...

Chin up, don’t smile, don’t cry, don’t fall, walk.

Clothes don't make the man, but they make all of him except his hands and face during business hours, and that's a pretty considerable area of the human animal.

The name is Schitt," he replied. "Jack Schitt.

We reap what we sow. We are the makers of our own fate. None else has the blame, none has the praise.