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With Barack, there's an emotional need to succeed, to win, to obtain victory. He always believes that he's the smartest person in the room.
If your ambition comes at the price of an unbalanced life, that there's nothing else that gives you comfort but success, it's not worth it.
The highest patriotism is not a blind acceptance of official policy, but a love of one's country deep enough to call her to a higher plain.
If you're Iran's minister of defense, I think you'd try to develop at least one nuclear weapon to save yourself from what happened to Iraq.
I hate photographs abstractly, because they have given me more ideas perversely and immovably wrong, than I ever should get by imagination.
The Macedonian people and their kings were of Greek stock, as their traditions and the scanty remains of their language combine to testify.
Convince yourself that you are working in clay, not marble, on paper not eternal bronze: Let that first sentence be as stupid as it wishes.
Men killing other men really is an extraordinary phenomenon. Why does it happen? And how long has it gone on? And have the motives changed?
All the nationalists are wasms - except one, the most powerful of this century, indeed, of the entire democratic age, which is nationalism.
Sabbath on Saturday in favor of The Lord's Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected Judaizing (Mag 10.3), first use of term Christianity (Mag 10).
I don't reverberate to victimhood, probably because of my own life. I refused to become a victim myself, so it's not one of my big stories.
Life is an art we are required to practice without preparation, a score that we play at sight even before we have mastered our instruments.
Idealism and science continue to function in separate compartments; and yet 'the happiness of man on earth' depends upon their combination.
America's soldiery, like its war dead, comes disproportionately from its southern states and from its aspiring poor - both white and black.
The dogma of woman's complete historical subjection to men must be rated as one of the most fantastic myths ever created by the human mind.
Roosevelt understands that there are things that are worth surrendering your career for, like defending the country against [Adolf] Hitler.
Therefore it is unnecessary for a prince to have all the good qualities I have enumerated, but it is very necessary to appear to have them.
The one who adapts his policy to the times prospers, and likewise that the one whose policy clashes with the demands of the times does not.
The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been studied, debated, and dramatized endlessly ever since.
I believe it is still true that conflicts among major powers usually stem from geopolitical rivalries but rarely from economic competition.
My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.
By what standard of morality can the violence used by a slave to break his chains be considered the same as the violence of a slave master?
One fact must be familiar to all those who have any experience of human nature - a sincerely religious man is often an exceedingly bad man.
All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.
Man can know his world without falling back on revelation; he can live his life without feeling his utter dependence on supernatural powers.
Good leadership requires you to surround yourself with people of diverse perspectives who can disagree with you without fear of retaliation.
I have but one lamp by which my feet are guided, and that is the lamp of experience. I know no way of judging of the future but by the past.
Many in the American military have learned the fundamental dilemma of modern warfare: More money and better weapons don't mean that you win.
Women's history is women's right-an essential, indispensable heritage from which we can draw pride, comfort, courage, and long range vision.
He is the best man who, when making his plans, fears and reflects on everything that can happen to him, but in the moment of action is bold.
An aristocratic culture does not advertise its emotions. In its forms of expression it is sober and reserved. Its general attitude is stoic.
The historian's first duties are sacrilege and the mocking of false gods. They are his indispensable instruments for establishing the truth.
Safety razors make it hard to grow beards in America: America would be a better place if there were a few bearded, savage, terrible old men.
In 21st-century America, as in Georgian Britain, elections are raucous, flamboyant, flag-waving, expensive, and sometimes ramshackle things.
The nuclear family must be destroyed... Whatever its ultimate meaning, the break-up of families now is an objectively revolutionary process.
A lot of my father's family in Canada volunteered in the First World War because they saw it as a war that was defending the mother country.
Could anyone fail to be depressed by a book he or she has published? Don't we always outgrow them the moment the last page has been written?
The ACLU sees the separation of church and state as so absolute that not a single religious word must be allowed to pass a schoolhouse door.
I have always been quite careful when I have been approached to do a television project to have the option of writing the accompanying book.
It is better to be bold than too circumspect, because fortune is of a sex which likes not a tardy wooer and repulses all who are not ardent.
(A ruler) cannot and should not keep his word when to do so would go against his interests or when the reason he pledged it no longer holds.
A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.
Who the first inhabitants of Britain were, whether natives or immigrants, remains obscure; one must remember we are dealing with barbarians.
The task of history is to hold out for reprobation every evil word and deed, and to hold out for praise every great and noble word and deed.
Right, as the world goes, is only in question between equals in power, while the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must.
still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.
But what of black women?... I most sincerely doubt if any other race of women could have brought its fineness up through so devilish a fire.
Whatever landscape a child is exposed to early on, that will be the sort of gauze through which he or she will see all the world afterwards.
National parks are the best idea we ever had. Absolutely American, absolutely democratic, they reflect us at our best rather than our worst.
By pagans the Jews (and later Christians) were seen as perverse, almost indeed as atheists, for they denied the very existence of other gods.