What I admire in Columbus is not his having discovered a new world but his having gone to search for it on the faith of an opinion.

Scrupulous people are not suited to great affairs.

It is not error which opposes the progress of truth; it is indolence, obstinacy, the spirit of routine, every thing which favors inaction.

The whole mass of humanity . . . marches constantly, though slowly, toward greater perfection.

All merchandize has the two essential properties of money, to measure and to represent all value: and in this sense all merchandize is money.

Every soil does not produce every material.

Eripuit coelo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis. He snatched the lightning from the sky and the sceptre from tyrants.

All money is essentially merchandize.

Gold and silver are constituted, by the nature of things, money, and universal money, independent of all convention, and of all laws.

I feel your body against mine, while our lips are intertwined.

Emotion is the timbre of thought.

Grandfather always said school's a place where they take sixteen years to wear down your brain. Grandfather hardly went to school either.

They're funny things, Accidents. You never have them till you're having them.

From early on, everything I did was calculated to being elected to Congress.

The Japanese are a disease of the skin. The Communists are a disease of the heart.

Man must be doing something, or fancy that he is doing something, for in him throbs the creative impulse; the mere basker in the sunshine is not a natural, but an abnormal man.

At home, I have a wife, fortunately, and my children are all grown, and I have many grandchildren. I spend weekends with my grandchildren; I adore them.

We have been given the trust and goodwill of New Zealanders. I do not take that trust for granted, and I never will.