The people will always attempt to find the positive aspects of all circumstances, which, in themselves, are not susceptible to danger.

Everybody has a right to be stupid, but some people abuse the privilege.

It's not the people who vote that count. It's the people who count the votes.

Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns, why should we let them have ideas.

Great Britain provided time; the United States provided money and Soviet Russia provided blood.

This creature softened my heart of stone. She died and with her died my last warm feelings for humanity.

Education is a weapon the effect of which is determined by the hands which wield it, by who is to be struck down.

The death of one man is tragic, but the death of thousands is statistic.

When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use.

When there's a person, there's a problem. When there's no person, there's no problem. Josef Stalin

To choose one's victims, to prepare one's plan minutely, to slake an implacable vengeance, and then to go to bed... There is nothing sweeter in the world.

You may have some scars from the past but this will fade away in time.

I don't know much about kisses, but I can assure you that hers were no less fierce than a swarm of bullets tearing the air

A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.

I believe that inside every tool is a hammer.

I have been on the margins in terms of having to find a place to live and getting a job, but at some point, and before that point, I always thought no matter where I am, that's the center.

I promise to be a splendid husband, but give me a wife who, like the moon, won't in my sky every day...

Today nearly all historians, whether Christians or not, accept that Jesus existed and that the Gospels contain plenty of valuable evidence which has to be weighed and assessed critically.

What you have to understand about period drama is that it's 'history light.

American voters should understand that Congress will always find a way to spend every last dollar sent to Washington.

It is difficult to be funny and great at the same time. Aristophanes and Moliere and Mark Twain must sit below Aristotle and Bossuet and Emerson.