Our work is to present things that are as they are.

Great things are achieved only when we take great risks.

All religions must be tolerated ... every man must go to heaven in his own way. [Die Religionen müssen alle toleriert werden ... denn hier muss ein jeder nach seiner Fasson selig werden.]

The more I see of men, the better I like my dog.

Diplomacy without military might is like music without instruments.

Great advantage is drawn from knowledge of your adversary, and when you know the measure of his intelligence and character, you can use it to play on his weakness.

Every man has a wild beast within him.

A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.

The greatest and noblest pleasure which we have in this world is to discover new truths, and the next is to shake off old prejudices.

No government can exist without taxation. The money must necessarily be levied on the people; and the grand art consists of levying so as not to oppress.

Many battles have been fought and won by soldiers nourished on beer, and the King does not believe that coffee-drinking soldiers can be relied upon to endure hardships in case of another war.

Mindfulness is not a mechanical process. It is developing a very gentle, kind, and creative awareness to the present moment.

If there is a media in a country which deceives its own people, that country needs no other enemy!

It is only losers that are prosecuted.

Luck favors the people who are willing to grind it out.

Three weeks ago, she learned how to drive. Last week she learned how to aim it.

What's your name?" Donald." Hi, Donald, missed you at the wienie roast.

Limited government must come politically, not judicially.

My dad was very fun and very adventurous, and from a formative age I learned to value men who would do things on a whim.

Epicurus says that you should rather have regard to the company with whom you eat and drink, than to what you eat and drink.

Loud dress becomes offensive to people of taste, as evincing an undue desire to reach and impress the untrained sensibilities of the vulgar.