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Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.
But I like not these great success of yours; for I know how jealous are the gods.
If the gods had intended for people to vote, they would have given us candidates.
It was an old lesson learned by governments: that war solves problems of control.
In grave difficulties, and with little hope, the boldest measures are the safest.
If History teaches any lesson at all, it is that there are no historical lessons.
No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.
There aren't many people who really put their life on the line for human freedom.
It is important to remember that John Paul II was not an American or a Frenchman.
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury.
After one party loses two elections in a row, there's sort of blood in the water.
These things by reason of our friendship I have not hesitated glo to communicate.
To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.
It is more reverent to believe in the works of the Deity than to comprehend them.
Perdomita Britannia et statim omissa. Britain was conquered and immediately lost.
Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.
everybody feels the evil, but no one has courage or energy enough to seek the cure
History is a gallery of pictures in which there are few originals and many copies.
In no obvious sense was the American Revolution undertaken as a social revolution.
You can no more keep a Martini in the refrigerator than you can keep a kiss there.
The best reason for putting anything down on paper is that one may then change it.
It's not about winning. It's the enjoyment of doing it - it gets your brain going.
I will hear no talk that there are no intermediate-range weapons on the NATO side.
Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.
Persuasion is the resource of the feeble; and the feeble can seldom persuade . . .
But a wild democracy . . . too often disdains the essential principles of justice.
The criminal penalties [for suicide] are the production of a later and darker age.
Over one in five American children is living in poverty, and the number is rising.
Empathy is born out of the old biblical injunction 'Love the neighbor as thyself.'
Reaganism is not only at odds with the Judeo-Christian heritage, it will not work.
What every college must do is hold up before the young the spectacle of greatness.
If honesty did not exist, we ought to invent it as the best means of getting rich.
Most wars, after all, present themselves as humanitarian endeavors to help people.
A complete assemblage of the smallest facts of human history will tell in the end.
Americans began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.
No other discipline has its portals so wide open to the general public as history.
Women are perfectly well aware that the more they seem to obey the more they rule.
The cities and mansions that people dream of are those in which they finally live.
The ultimate gift of conscious life is a sense of the mystery that encompasses it.
Men are only clever at shifting blame from their own shoulders to those of others.
The most honorable, as well as the safest course, is to rely entirely upon valour.
War is a crucial, deeply ingrained part of human history. It has to be understood.
Water symbolizes the whole of potentiality - the source of all possible existence.
Duke Ellington had a song, "What Am I Here For?" - this is what being pro-life is.
My father had always been a traveling salesman - New England, the South, whatever.
It is a common failing of man not to take account of tempests during fair weather.
Prudence therefore consists in knowing how to distinguish degrees of disadvantage.
Princes and governments are far more dangerous than other elements within society.
He who is the cause of another's advancement is thereby the cause of his own ruin.
One should never risk one's whole fortune unless supported by one's entire forces.