To those who think them selves strong, force always seems the easiest solution.

Chief among the forces affecting political folly is lust for power, named by Tacitus as "the most flagrant of all passions.

Government was rarely more than a choice between the disastrous and the unpalatable.

The process of gaining power employs means which degrade or brutalize the seeker, who awakes to find that power has been possessed at the cost of virtue or moral purpose lost.

House speaker Thomas read could see the trend, but he could not have changed himself.

Confronted by menace or what is perceived as menace, governments will usually attempt to smash it, rarely to examine it, understand it, and drefine it.

The utility of perseverance in absurdity is more than I could ever discern. Edmund Burke

He was always acting, always enveloping himself in artificiality, perhaps to conceal the volcano within.

How much does a man's effort depend upon the age in which his work is cast? Pope Clement VII

No single characteristic ever overtakes an entire society.

Prison does not silence ideas whose time has come.

If you make your own path in this thing we call life, you will forever know that it was yours and not someone else's. - Michael A. Contés II

Drive. He’s already dead.

How deeply seated in the human heart is the liking for gardens and gardening.

I have no great faith in political arithmetic, and I mean not to warrant the exactness of either of these computations.

The thing is...what they don't tell you about forgiveness is this-you don't give it for the other person's sake, but your own.

My songs are the door to every dream I've ever had and every success I've ever achieved.

Because I'm anti-war, I've been called pro-Taliban.

When I played Robin Hood, I knew the great role was Alan Rickman's and it didn't bother me. I always think that leading actors should be called the best supporting actors.

There's so much more to me than swimming. I like to go and have fun, like to go dancing, hang out with my friends.

There is a fallible quality even in the greatest ones,everyone fails once in a while, be it Shah Rukh Khan or Ronaldhino