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The hero was distinguished by his achievement; the celebrity by his name or trademark.
I liked the thought that the book I was now holding had been held by dozens of others.
[The] vain and transitory scenes of human greatness are unworthy of a serious thought.
The fortified towns of the Hurons were all on the side exposed to Iroquois incursions.
This is God's world, not Satan's. Christians are the lawful heirs, not non-Christians.
We combat obstacles in order to get repose, and when got, the repose is insupportable.
An American Virgin would never dare command; an American Venus would never dare exist.
To administer is to govern: to govern is to reign. That is the essence of the problem.
Why do we have to be a military superpower? Why can't we be a humanitarian superpower?
Right is not only to act within the law. It's to also act according to the conscience.
Baseball is a kind of collective chess with arms and legs in full play under sunlight.
The content of the ideal is a desire to return to the perfection of an imaginary past.
Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture.
There are certain wicked people in the world that you can't deal with except by force.
Being called a sophisticated snake oil salesman was a low point in my personal career.
The fighting was fierce and lasted for the greater part of a day; blood ran in rivers.
I always wanted to be a lawyer,but I certainly never wanted to be a trapeze performer.
[Left] are very hesitant to criticize [Barack] Obama, but that is beginning to change.
Good order and discipline in any army are to be depended upon more than courage alone.
Ive summarized dozens of books in my literary career; its become rather second nature.
Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.]
Even in its third century, America is still the most meritocratic nation in the world.
It is African scholars themselves who will create the ultimate Encyclopaedia Africana.
A writer is an organism that will go on writing even after its heart has been cut out.
It's easier to die than to move ... at least for the Other Side you don't need trunks.
Washington's defeat in 1754 was followed by active military preparations on both sides.
Nature secretly avenges herself for the constraint imposed upon her by the laws of man.
I have always noticed in politics how often men are ruined by having too good a memory.
The source of better ideas is wisdom. The surest path to wisdom is a liberal education.
Wicked deeds are generally done, even with impunity, for the mere desire of occupation.
The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.
One can cite cases of Negroes who opposed emancipation and denounced the abolitionists.
The job of the press is to encourage debate, not to supply the public with information.
You have to liberate yourself first from the prejudices of the world in which you live.
It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.
I did frequently refer to my war record in World War II, but not in any flamboyant way.
Art is expression, and to have high expression you must have something high to express.
It is not as easy to emigrate with steel mills as it is with the manuscript of a novel.
The history of the world is the record of a man in quest of his daily bread and butter.
Every man should have a fair-sized cemetary in which to bury the faults of his friends.
The study of history is useful to the historian by teaching him his ignorance of women.
The Roman jurisprudence has the longest known history of any set of human institutions.
The highways of American cities are an enduring testimony to our acceptance of ugliness
Intellect has nothing to do with equality except to respect it as a sublime convention.
The reason teaching has to go on is that children are not born human; they are made so.
A revolution is an act of violence whereby one class shatters the authority of another.
Culture requires in the first place a certain balance of material and spiritual values.
The ferocious inroads of the Normans scared many weak and timid persons into servitude.
Modernity is a shifting entity, not easily defined. Exactly the same is true of empire.
We can prevent fighting by limiting weapons or finding nonviolent ways to end disputes.