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Do you ever make silly mistakes? It is one of my very few creative activities.
Avarice and luxury, those evils which have been the ruin of every great state.
Historians often find important decisions few knew were important at the time.
Counting the ones I've co-edited, I guess about 28 or 29 [books I've written].
I met [my wife Margot] on Fire Island when I had a house there many years ago.
There is no avoiding war; it can only be postponed to the advantage of others.
What someone doesn't want you to publish is journalism; all else is publicity.
At the start of first terms, presidents invariably have a measure of goodwill.
The ACLU has been able to harass out of existence public expressions of faith.
A combination of all that was best in the gladdest days of the departing year.
General Quotations about Evenings Let us add this one more night to our lives.
The love of fame is a love that even the wisest of men are reluctant to forgo.
The ancient boundary of Italy on the north was not the Alps but the Apennines.
When you are threatened, when your life is threatened, you have to fight back.
It is as though nature must needs make men narrow in order to give them force.
The colonies had little occasion to feel or to resent direct royal prerogative.
Those that despise people will never get the best out of others and themselves.
No wild beasts are so cruel as the Christians in their dealings with each other
Politicians are often tempted to deploy history as a weapon against each other.
I can not think of any circumstances in which advertising would not be an evil.
Nothing so comforts the military mind as the maxim of a great but dead general.
The Confederate Constitution was almost identical to that of the United States.
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language
The left no longer stands for common sense, as it did in the days of Tom Paine.
My definition of social justice: those who refuse to work deserve to go hungry.
Where ruts have not yet been worn, it requires less effort to stay out of them.
I'm not sure Lincoln would fare well if he were a presidential candidate today.
Accountability makes no sense when it undermines the larger goals of education.
Government is an art, not a science, and an adventure, not a planned itinerary.
The voice of history is often little more than the organ of hatred or flattery.
[Arabs are] a people, whom it is dangerous to provoke, and fruitless to attack.
Happiness, whether in business or private life, leaves little trace in history.
History repeats itself and History never repeats itself are about equally true.
Ennui is the desire of activity without the fit means of gratifying the desire.
Leadership is one of the most observed and least understood phenomena on earth.
Australia is a country not so much of fulfillment as of theatrical expectation.
The splendid empire of Charles the Fifth was erected upon the grave of liberty.
Distant replay morphs into instant replay, and future replay cannot be far off.
The Psalms, the anthology of the hymns of Israel, are still used by Christians.
Envy is blind, and she has no other quality than that of detracting from virtue
[Bill Shawn] didn't edit the writers very strongly, but he knew what he wanted.
What we can see depends heavily on what our culture has trained us to look for.
Gold will not always get you good soldiers, but good soldiers can get you gold.
Among other evils which being unarmed brings you, it causes you to be despised.
Benefits should be conferred gradually; and in that way they will taste better.
We cannot attribute to fortune or virtue that which is achieved without either.
The key to solving the social problems of our age is to abolish the white race.
The more violent the body contact of the sports you watch, the lower the class.
The simple is carefully shunned by those who labour to seem what they would be.
Alexander was not the first Greek to be honoured as a god for political favour.