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America's entire homeland security enterprise positively invites questions even as it strives to reassure.
A fraudulent intent, however carefully concealed at the outset, will generally, in the end, betray itself.
Shared danger is the strongest of bonds; it will keep men united in spite of mutual dislike and suspicion.
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
The "Axis of Evil" was - and is - very real, as the tyrants of Iran, Iraq, and North Korea knew full well.
Big media companies have lots of money and content, but they have no way to tap into a good base of users.
As long as you have not grasped that you have to die to grow, you are a troubled guest on the dark earth".
Hence it comes that all armed Prophets have been victorious, and all unarmed Prophets have been destroyed.
Hillary Clinton made no outreach to Muslim Americans or Arab Americans. So they have to insert themselves.
Flattery was one of Kissinger's principal tools in winning over Nixon, and a tool he employed shamelessly.
Foreign policy is like hitting a baseball: if you fail 70 percent of the time, you go to the Hall of Fame.
I took five years on the first volume, five years on the second volume, and ten years on the third volume.
The brave and bold persist even against fortune; the timid and cowardly rush to despair though fear alone.
Men are more ready to repay an injury than a benefit, because gratitude is a burden and revenge a pleasure
When men of talents are punished, authority is strengthened. [Lat., Punitis ingeniis, gliscit auctoritas.]
Justice will not come to Athens until those who are not injured are as indignant as those who are injured.
Nuclear proliferation - the proliferation of WMDs altogether - is one of the greatest dangers of our time.
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.
We black men seem the sole oasis of simple faith and reverence in a dusty desert of dollars and smartness.
For the only great men among the unfree and the oppressed are those who struggle to destroy the oppressor.
England and France were rivals, not only on the continent, but in the West Indies, in India, and in Europe.
The reason that 'Stalingrad' took off was because it emphasized the influence of history on the individual.
We are not going to achieve a new world order without paying for it in blood as well as in words and money.
One must stop conducting research before one has finished. Otherwise, one will never stop and never finish.
If it is not profitable for the common good that authority should be retained, it ought to be relinquished.
Do you wait for things to happen, or do you make them happen yourself? I believe in writing your own story.
Let me wake up next to you, have coffee in the morning, and wander through the city with your hand in mine.
Relentless improvement of the product and upgrading of consumer tastes are the heart of mass merchandising.
Modern women like to think we invented the idea of balancing work and family but women have always done it.
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.
As a historian, what I trust is my ability to take a mass of information and tell a story shaped around it.
The past is not simply the past, but a prism through which the subject filters his own changing self-image.
There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind
The talk about balance, nuclear balance, seems to me to be metaphysical and doesn't seem to be real at all.
Extreme distress, which unites the virtue of a free people, imbitters the factions of a declining monarchy.
As far as the Jews were concerned, Hitler's only 'prayer' was that they be wiped off the face of the earth.
The only certain thing about the future is that it will surprise even those who have seen furthest into it.
If there is one thing all Fascists and National Socialists agreed on, it was their hostility to capitalism.
It is an act of virtue to deceive and lie, when by such means the interest of the church might be promoted.
It will sometimes be necessary to use falsehood for the benefit of those who need such a mode of treatment.
Leadership of a world-economy is an experience of power which may blind the victor to the march of history.
The ancient codes were doubtless originally suggested by the discovery and diffusion of the art of writing.
A man calumniated is doubly injured - first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
I'm a historian, I think history matters, but we don't have to be slavish in following it and restoring it.
We cannot appreciate the art of any age without first acquiring an equivalent of the experience it depicts.
For a century longer, Rome still retains its outward form, but the swarming nations are now in full career.
Chronology, so the saying goes, is the last refuge of the feeble-minded and the only resort for historians.
But history is neither watchmaking nor cabinet construction. It is an endeavor toward better understanding.
I guess I haven't talked to Bob Dylan since before then [interview to Rolling Stones]. I follow his career.
Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good.