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

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 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.

He had been present in their minds not as a man but as an idea.

Forget being a bad failure, use Cosmic Ordering and be good at success.

What would be the significance of the candlelight, if there were no darkness? What would be the power of the stars over our minds, if there were no night?

the greatest Americanshave not been born yetthey are waiting patientlyfor the past to die

We don't need geography, dogs are our world

Americans care more about the rights of animals than about what happens to us!

Guilt is cancer. Guilt will confine you, torture you, destroy you as an artist. It's a black wall. It's a thief.

Surfeits kill more than fasting does.

God speaks to each of us as he makes us, then walks with us silently out of the night.

I think, you're not blagging me on this ridiculous journey, with this bit of paper. I think if you want to change things, it's not with an X on a piece of paper, it's with an X on someone's forehead.

No research will answer all queries that the future may raise. It is wiser to praise the work for what it has accomplished and then to formulate the problems still to be solved.