Our misconception in viewing the past lies in assuming that doubt and fear, permit, protests, violence and hate were not equally present.

Everything interested him and everything excited him.

William McKinley was a man made to be managed.

What other country has had the privilege of making the world's heart beat faster?

Diplomacy's primary law: LEAVE ROOM FOR NEGOTIATION.

The art of oratory was considered part of the equipment of a statesman.

The author says one patrician English leader saw his relationship with the populace thusly: He wasn't responsible TO them. He was responsible FOR them. He was responsible for their care.

A minister's (cabinet member's) function was not to DO the work but to see that it got done.

Duty was not untinged by ambition.

Britain had an air of careless supremacy which GALLED her neighbors.

Even his own speeches bored him.

They made love through their eyes, while their gestures conveyed otherwise!

In broad terms

True friendships are life-saving bridges over troubled waters.

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City life is millions of people being lonesome together.

I was on a well-beaten path of actors - what we all call 'the Law and Order route'. I spent two years of auditioning for everything... and then 'The Wire' came up.

There is, in the heart, the hard-rendering profit. As if we were plucking the leaves from the trees.

A dwarf who brings a standard along with him to measure his own size, take my word, is a dwarf in more articles than one.

Children aren't everything. There are other things in the world, though I admit some people don't seem to suspect it.

I don't know that I could draw one that's perfect. But I'd rather by approximately right than precisely wrong, and it would be precisely wrong to turn it down.