No real English gentleman, in his secret soul, was ever sorry for the death of a political economist.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

You may talk of the tyranny of Nero and Tiberius; but the real tyranny is the tyranny of your next-door neighbor.

A severe though not unfriendly critic of our institutions said that the cure for admiring the House of Lords was to go and look at it.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

Progress would not have been the rarity it is if the early food had not been the late poison.

Royalty is a government in which the attention of the nation is concentrated on one person doing interesting actions.

Nothing is more unpleasant than a virtuous person with a mean mind.

One of the greatest pains to human nature is the pain of a new idea.

It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.

A Parliament is nothing less than a big meeting of more or less idle people.

Man be merciful, for your Maker is merciful.

legal investigation. As Clinton noted, “My goal in this deposition was to be truthful, but not particularly helpful.

It is enough that I am of value to somebody today.

Computers do the calculating to allow people to transform the world.

We rush for the stars as we crawl toward our graves.

Openness is the first step toward recovery... addiction remains a secret because of the overwhelming shame associated with it.

America has this understanding of Africans that plays like National Geographic: a bunch of Negroes with loincloths running around the plain fields of Africa chasing gazelles.

Ex-convicts prepared the eggs for the White House’s Easter Egg Roll. It’s nice to see the White House reaching out to former members of Congress.

Decisions taken by the most democratic institutions in the world are very often wrong.

The first time I remember really being excited about a book was The Count of Monte Cristo.