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I am a liberal and always have been - just not the wild-eyed character the Republicans made me out to be.
I fully endorse the millennial goals to make (hunger) history, ... Those are big goals, but it's do-able.
The Americans who framed our Constitution felt that without freedom of religion no other freedom counted.
Art distills sensation and embodies it with enhanced meaning in a memorable form - or else it is not art.
Writing, at least a craft and at its best an art, aspiring to the unique, is the most difficult to learn.
The danger that may really threaten (crime fiction) is that soon there will be more writers than readers.
Those who expect moments of change to be comfortable and free of conflict have not learned their history.
In Gaul were two orders, the nobility and the priesthood, while the people, says Caesar, were all slaves.
Delusion about history is a serious matter; it can gravely affect the history that is waiting to be made.
A large part of Canada heads for Florida, California, and Hawaii in the winter to get away from the snow.
I live in a perpetual present. I don't look back and I don't look forward. I just live from week to week.
No enterprise is more likely to succeed than one concealed from the enemy until it is ripe for execution.
....nothing is so unhealthy or unstable as the reputation for power that is not based on one's own power.
The forces of adversaries are more diminished by the loss of those who flee than of those who are killed.
Wise men say, and not without reason, that whosoever wished to foresee the future might consult the past.
A more or less accurate measure of class in America is TV size: the bigger your TV, the lower your class.
It's always valuable for someone running for president... to have as much bipartisan support as possible.
How different our national perspective would be had Johnson, rather than Nixon, served from 1969 to 1973.
America was named after a man who discovered no part of the New World. History is like that, very chancy.
I think that the opportunity to improve race relations in the United States has been put off temporarily.
Trial by jury. Live wherever you can make a living. How could a government based on such principles fail?
Every recreant who proved his timidity in the hour of danger, was afterwards boldest in words and tongue.
I am not blaming those who are resolved to rule, only those who show an even greater readiness to submit.
We Greeks believe that a man who takes no part in public affairs is not merely lazy, but good for nothing
America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.
When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.
The world is shrinking together; it is finding itself neighbor to itself in strange, almost magic degree.
History is not another name for the past, as many people imply. It is the name for stories about the past.
Town meetings are to liberty what primary schools are to science; they bring it within the people's reach.
Woman was the Church's rival, the temptress, the distraction, the obstacle to holiness, the Devil's decoy.
The appetite for power is old and irrepressible in humankind, and in its action almost always destructive.
The only places where American medicine can fully live up to its possibilities are the teaching hospitals.
We do not show the Negro how to overcome segregation, but we teach him how to accept it as final and just.
A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.
The Left is deeply invested in Obama's presidency; they believe he's too important, symbolically, to fail.
By common consent, gray hairs are a crown of glory: the only object of respect that can never excite envy.
The real movement of history, it turns out, is fueled not by matter but by spirit, by the will to freedom.
Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds.
The photograph is a coarse fraud, and seems to delight only in taking the whole beauty out of the picture.
The progress of evolution from President Washington to President Grant was alone evidence to upset Darwin.
It is clear that not in one thing alone, but in many ways equality and freedom of speech are a good thing.
The establishment, whatever rewards it gives us, will also, if necessary to maintain it's control, kill us
Use the Day of Atonement not to pray for the dead but to act for the living, to rescue those about to die.
An artist has every right - one may even say a duty - to exhibit his productions as prominently as he can.
In Europe art has to a large degree taken the place of religion. In America it seems rather to be science.
The doctrine of preemption has a long and distinguished history in the history of American foreign policy.
The National League was born the following year, as an attempt to exert the control of capital over labor.
This illuminates not only fans' interest in major league teams but also the minors and even Little League.
It is hard to convince people that you mean them well if you are looking at them down the barrel of a gun.
American prejudices about Europe rarely surface in headlines, but they are real, pervasive, and ingrained.