Politicians who complain about the media are like sailors who complain about the sea.

As I look ahead, I am filled with foreboding. Like the Roman, I seem to see "the River Tiber foaming with much blood.

In the end, the Labour party could cease to represent labour. Stranger historic ironies have happened than that.

A politician complaining about the media is like a sailor complaining about the sea.

Independence, the freedom of a self-governing nation, is in my estimation the highest political good, for which any disadvantage, if need be, and any sacrifice are a cheap price.

All political lives, unless they are cut off in midstream at a happy juncture, end in failure, because that is the nature of politics and of human affairs.

The supreme function of statesmanship is to provide against preventable evils.

If my ship sails from sight, it doesn't mean my journey ends, it simply means the river bends.

If I cannot understand my friend's silence, I will never get to understand his words.

People are disposed to mistake predicting troubles for causing troubles and even for desiring troubles.

The enemies of advertising are the enemies of freedom.

Desire isn't lack, it's surplus energy - a claustrophobia inside your skin -.

I'm a crumbled up piece of paper lying here, 'cause I remember it all too well

Either God is real or he isn't

Macaulay is well for awhile but one wouldn't live under Niagara.

The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.

I believe that much of the maladjustment in our societies is caused, not by malevolence and corruption, but simply by ignorance.

The meaning of the universe lies outside the universe.

The less we move, the less we are capable of moving.

Russia is the biggest country in the world. It would be very difficult to surround it, and the world is changing so fast that it would basically be impossible, even in theory.

The sense of death is most in apprehension, And the poor beetle, that we tread upon, In corporal sufferance finds a pang as great As when a giant dies.