The most fun in breaking a rule is in knowing what rule you're breaking.

Never assume the obvious is true.

Nobody stands taller than those willing to stand corrected.

To be accused of 'channeling' is to be dismissed as a ventriloquist's live dummy, derogated at not having a mind of one's own.

When articulation is impossible, gesticulation comes to the rescue.

As long as one American is hungry... then we have unfinished business in this country.

It is in the nature of tyranny to deride the will of the people as the voice of the mob, and to denounce the cry for freedom as the roar of anarchy.

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.

Only in grammar can you be more than perfect.

The Latin motto over Poindexter's new Pentagon office reads Scientia Est Potentia - "knowledge is power." Exactly: the government's infinite knowledge about you is its power over you.

Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague.

Life is given for increase and multiplication of the glory of God

Like most of those who study history, he (Napoleon III) learned from the mistakes of the past how to make new ones.

If someone loves you, they can fall out of love with you but they're probably going to keep fearing you. That's where we are with [Donald] Trump.

I've been going up and bombing everywhere. It's great. I love it. It's hilarious.

As every bookie knows instinctively, a number such as reliability - a qualitative rather than a quantitative measure - is needed to make the valuation of information practically useful.

Imitation pleases, because it affords matter for inquiring into the truth or falsehood of imitation, by comparing its likeness or unlikeness with the original.

I am never frightened when I tell the truth.

Complete free trade is not politically feasible. Why? Because it's only in the general interest and in no one's special interest.

The country shall be independent, and we will be satisfied with nothing short of it.

Man is the only creature we know, that, when the term of his natural life is ended, leaves the memory of himself behind him.