Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.

Saying we should keep the two-party system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life-rafts.

An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.

We do not need presidents who are bigger than the country, but rather ones who speak for it and support it.

As long as the differences and diversities of mankind exist, democracy must allow for compromise, for accommodation, and for the recognition of differences.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

Vote against anything introduced with a "re" in it, especially reforms, reorganizations, and recodifications. This usually means going back to something that failed once and is likely to do so again.

We don't declare war any more; we declare national defense.

It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.

Whatever is morally necessary must be made politically possible.

The only thing that saves us from bureaucracy is its inefficiency.

A good picture is equivalent to a good deed.

And she felt as though she had been there, on that bench, for an eternity. For an infinity of passion can be contained in one minute, like a crowd in a small space.

Stop talking about how you will build an empire, and start building it right at this very moment. Time never waits for anyone to feel perfectly ready.

Men so sick they are dying of death.

The fact that I am a woman does not make me a different kind of Christian, but the fact that I am a Christian makes me a different kind of woman.

Jack Kerouac did what he most wanted to do. He wrote great prose. He became the writer he wanted to be.

Every literary critic believes he will outwit history and have the last word.

Let's go and do jihad

No man ought to commit his life into the hands of that Physician, who is ignorant of Astrologic: because he is a Physician of no value.