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Men as a whole judge more with their eyes than with their hands.
In the Olympic Oath, I ask for only one thing: sporting loyalty.
The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle.
Sport must be the heritage of all men and of all social classes.
Russia and Iran are not going to allow the Assad regime to fall.
Anti-Catholicism has always been the pornography of the Puritan.
A desire to resist oppression is implanted in the nature of man.
In a state where corruption abounds, laws must be very numerous.
When a woman has lost her chastity she will shrink from nothing.
All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome.
Posterity allows to every man his true value and proper honours.
We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.
We do not write what we know; we write what we want to find out.
it is an easy mistake to think that non-talkers are non-feelers.
The more alike men are, the weaker each feels in the face of all.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail.
The passion for tidiness is the historian's occupational disease.
More appealing than knowledge itself is the feeling of knowledge.
The Palestinians are a miserable people...and they deserve to be.
I love mysteries, and I read them every night before I go to bed.
[T]he historian must serve two masters, the past and the present.
Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Power is poison. Its effect on Presidents had always been tragic.
I know that human happiness never remains long in the same place.
The sun will not shine on any country that has borders with ours.
The king's might is greater than human, and his arm is very long.
How can you have a war on terrorism when war itself is terrorism?
In between war and passivity, there are a thousand possibilities.
Second terms in the White House open the way for second thoughts.
War is an irrational, counter-productive way to handle conflicts.
The worst kind of shame is being ashamed of frugality or poverty.
Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.
[The Poles] will die for their country; but few will work for it.
Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
A better world could be brought about only by better individuals.
Let the die be cast. [Lat., Jacta alea esto; or, jacta esa alea.)
If you would know who controls you see who you may not criticise.
Deos fortioribus adesse. The gods support those who are stronger.
Old things are always in good repute, present things in disfavor.
We are corrupted by good fortune. [Lat., Felicitate corrumpimur.]
The love of fame is the last weakness which even the wise resign.
We secure our friends not by accepting favours but by doing them.
[I]t is dangerous for a bride to be apologetic about her husband.
Revolution is the most dramatic appearance of a conscious people.
When truth and reason cannot be heard, then must presumption rule.
I want the reader to turn the page and keep on turning to the end.
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.
Pessimism is only the name that men of weak nerves give to wisdom.
The object of jihad is to bring the whole world under Islamic Law.
The 1860 election became a referendum on the southern way of life.