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Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale.
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
Get dealt a set of cards in life, and just deal with them........no problem.
The doctrine of the absolute uniqueness of events in history seems nonsense.
We must abandon the prevalent belief in the superior wisdom of the ignorant.
[Courage] arises in a great measure from the consciousness of strength . . .
And the winds and the waves are always on the side of the ablest navigators.
The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds.
Disinterested intellectual curiosity is the life blood of real civilization.
It is impossible to underrate human intelligence - beginning with one's own.
A multitude of rulers is not a good thing. Let there be one ruler, one king.
When a woman removes her garment, she also removes the respect that is hers.
There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.
Politics is pointless if it does nothing to enhance the beauty of our lives.
The past resembles the future more than one drop of water resembles another.
Old age is like learning a new profession. And not one of your own choosing.
The ascetic is often a sensualist who has reached the limit of his capacity.
Of course, clothing fashions have always been impractical, except in Tahiti.
In the tenth century the old Batavian and later Roman forms have faded away.
There was much woe and lamentation in the seventies that the game was dying.
The time to save God's Dream is now. The people to save God's Dream are you.
The "hole in the moral ozone" is really what's behind the hole in the ozone.
The Fujiyama of Architecture?at once a lofty mountain and a national shrine.
Slaveholders deployed so-called scientific racism to justify racial slavery.
Please, shun darkness, and like trees, always seek to grow toward the light.
One who deceives will always find those who allow themselves to be deceived.
The best fortress which a prince can possess is the affection of his people.
Men sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their patrimony
If Roosevelt didn't have World War II, he never would have had a third term.
Grant was something rare in that or any war. He could learn from experience.
Nixon regarded himself as having been cheated by life. He never got my vote.
It is the nature of the human disposition to hate him whom you have injured.
There is but one coward on earth, and that is the coward that dare not know.
Freedom does not always win. This is one of the bitterest lessons of history.
We learn nothing from history except the infinite variety of men's behaviour.
We have inherited new difficulties because we have inherited more privileges.
When the past no longer illuminates the future, the spirit walks in darkness.
The man who asks of freedom anything other than itself is born to be a slave.
In a revolution, as in a novel, the most difficult part to invent is the end.
Adversity in the things of this world opens the door for spiritual salvation.
To be able to fill leisure intelligently is the last product of civilization.
In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.
When the gap between ideal and real becomes too wide, the system breaks down.
If I had taken a doctoral degree, it would have stifled any writing capacity.
Men see things late, and it may be that at times an evil fate drives them on.
When you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions.
A best-seller was a book which somehow sold well because it was selling well.
Human models are more vivid and more persuasive than explicit moral commands.
I write to discover what I think. After all, the bars aren't open that early.
Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.