Why don't we just buy one airplane and let the pilots take turns flying it.

Don't expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.

The nation which forgets its defenders will be itself forgotten.

Christmas is not a time nor a season, but a state of mind. To cherish peace and goodwill, to be plenteous in mercy, is to have the real spirit of Christmas.

Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.

No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.

We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Liberty is not collective, it is personal. All liberty is individual liberty.

Nothing is more common than unsuccessful people with talent.

You can't increase prosperity by taxing success.

Jasnah had once defined a fool as a person who ignored information because it disagreed with desired results.

Tell me whom you haunt and I’ll tell you who you are.

Work becomes satisfaction when it is in the area of your calling

She liked the sharp salty smell of the air, and the vastness of horizons bounded only by a vault of azure sky above.

What’s your poison or should I just waste my money by guessing something you probably won’t even drink? I’d much rather get you something you like.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

Wickedness is always wickedness, but folly is not always folly.

Language is magic: it makes things appear and disappear.

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism.

In the end of 2012 no one looks back on this year and remembers the nights they got plenty of sleep