So be it. God created profoundly fallible creatures on this earth, and human history is mostly the story of error and accident.

The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.

Just wage a total war against these tyrants; I think we will do very well and our children will sing great songs about us years from now.

Paradoxically, preserving liberty may require the rule of a single leader-a dictator-willing to use those dreaded 'extraordinary measures, which few know how, or are willing, to employ.'

They must attack us in order to survive, just as we must destroy them to advance our historic mission.

China is a civilization pretending to be a nation.

There is no more dramatic proof of the death of the Left than the passage of its central vision - global democratic revolution - into the hands of those who call themselves conservatives.

how I wish I could fist a bit of old-fashioned beef in the fore-castle, as I used to when i was before the mast.

There were times after my marriage ended where, you know, I really felt like I was at the bottom of a mountain, there was a great big, fog up there, and I'm never going to cross to the other side.

Even as the unborn babe is in the womb of his mother, these five are fixed as his life destiny: his life span, his activities, his acquisition of wealth and knowledge, and his time of death.

And every last one of us can do better than give up.

But if we're going to make our immigration system work, then we have to be prepared to talk honestly and without fear about these important and very sensitive issues.

Let no man pray that he know not sorrow, Let no soul ask to be free from pain, For the gall of to-day is the sweet of to-morrow, And the moment's loss is the lifetime's gain.

Sacrifice is a form of bargaining.

The strong live and the weak die. There is some bloodshed, and out of it emerges a much leaner industry, which tends to survive.

One can impose silence on sentiment, but one can not give it limits.

I just realized that we're facing here is an empathy gap. And this was just another way to generate conversation about something that nobody wanted to look at.