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People flatter us because they can depend upon our credulity.
When the State is corrupt, then the laws are most multiplied.
Of all manifestations of power, restraint impresses men most.
Peace is an armistice in a war that is continuously going on.
Contempt for an assailant is best shown by bravery in action.
History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
Do we respond only to people who seem to find us interesting?
There is no such thing as gratitude in international politics.
satire is a wrapping of exaggeration around a core of reality.
I have always been in a condition in which I cannot not write.
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.
The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.
We read advertisements... to discover and enlarge our desires.
Teachers' working conditions are students' learning conditions
History is tangled, messy, contradictory. But is where we are.
A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
It was here that I suspended my religious inquiries (aged 17).
The progress of despotism tends to disappoint its own purpose.
A few hours' ride brought us to the banks of the river Kansas.
Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile.
Before a man dies, hold back and call him not happy but lucky.
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
Often, what you see in the media is driven by economic forces.
I would say readers can trust my work more than anyone else's.
Men are least safe from what success induces them not to fear.
Presidents fall into second-term slumps for different reasons.
To make a living space, there first had to be a killing space.
A sign of intelligence is an awareness of one's own ignorance.
Wars begin when you will, but they do not end when you please.
The United Kingdom is not, and never has been, a nation state.
When you have a hammer, all problems start to look like nails.
Laws were most numerous when the commonwealth was most corrupt
We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
It's Israelis who are ready to abandon the hard work of peace.
There is a sense in which we are all each other's consequences
That is all the National Parks are about. Use, but do no harm.
In 1763 the English were the most powerful nation in the world.
I have only one passion, the love of liberty and human dignity.
Military discipline is merely a perfection of social servitude.
Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.
Politics in a democracy is, at the end, an educational process.
In fact, the confidence of the people is worth more than money.
Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.
In the end, they wanted security more than they wanted freedom.
The paradox of communism in power was that it was conservative.
The return we reap from generous actions is not always evident.
Well, we ought to be stirred, even to tears, by society's ills.
At least I have precluded the possibility of peaking too early.
Sex acts don't drive erotica, the people who engage in them do.
The Jewish question is really the most serious of our problems.