No one is is sure of his premise as the man who knows too little.

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.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Trams and disciplined people always reach their destinations!

He heapeth up riches and knoweth not who shall gather them.

Everyone whose deeds are more than his wisdom his wisdom endures. And everyone whose wisdom is more than his deeds his wisdom does not endure.

The illiteracy level of our children are appalling.

Don't be interesting - be interested.

I love it. I hate that word (fatherhood), but I love being a father; it's changed everything in so many ways.

I just think, who wants new soul? I want my soul to be the same as Otis Redding, I don't wanna have a new one.

Statistics are just people with the tears wiped off.

Words are but the vague shadows of the volumes we mean. Little audible links, they are, chaining together great inaudible feelings and purposes.