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Furthermore, when citizens are all almost equal, it becomes difficult for them to defend their independence against the aggressions of power.
I just love the days when you come out of the archives with half a dozen excellent descriptions or poignant accounts of personal experiences.
The strongest bank in the United States will last only so long as the people will have sufficient confidence in it to keep their money there.
The left dismisses talk about the collapse of family life and talks instead about the emergence of the growing new diversity of family types.
Conservatives have no understanding of modern capitalism. They have a distorted understanding of the traditional values they claim to defend.
The hope of a new politics does not lie in formulating a left-wing reply to the right-it lies in rejecting conventional political categories.
Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.
Electricity and magnetism are those forces of nature by which people who know nothing about electricity and magnetism can explain everything.
It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
Those who seek education in the paths of duty are always deceived by the illusion that power in the hands of friends is an advantage to them.
All of life is action and passion, and not to be involved in the actions and passions of your time is to risk having not really lived at all.
It is sound planning that invariably earns us the outcome we want; without it, even the gods are unlikely to look with favour on our designs.
Utterly absorbing.... If you did not have the opportunity to witness the Soviet empire in its death throes, Lenin's Tomb will take you there.
In real life, the most practical advice for leaders is not to treat pawns like pawns, nor princes like princes, but all persons like persons.
The Australian divisions and the New Zealanders had become what they were to remain for the rest of the war the spearhead of the British Army
Donning a glove for a backyard toss, or watching a ball game, or just reflecting upon our baseball days, we are players again, forever young.
An androgynous mind was not a male mind. It was a mind attuned to the full range of human experience, including the invisible lives of women.
The wonder is not that so much cacophony appears in our actual individual lives, but that there is any appearance of harmony and progression.
Partly because women in the U.S. are better represented in the hierarchies, the culture wars over gender there have been particularly fierce.
When he comes into a room, you give a little gasp, deep inside, far inside,' someone once said when trying to describe what it meant to love.
We are going to have a long period where people are accustomed or conditioned to what's going on now with the raping of the Fourth Amendment.
Martin Williams persistently gets at essences, and that is why he has contributed so much to the very small body of authentic jazz criticism.
I was never a very convincing social conservative, and always avoided associating myself with that part of the broader conservative movement.
The sinews of war are not gold, but good soldiers; for gold alone will not procure good soldiers, but good soldiers will always procure gold.
When you're a writer, you never know which of your pieces are going to gain a toehold and which will not, and it's best not to care too much.
John Kennedy had so many different medical problems that began when he was a boy. He started out with intestinal problems... spastic colitis.
The American revolutionaries believed in the power of the word. But they had only word of mouth and the printing press. We have the Internet.
...so mankind is now trapped by the failure of its energies and by the depletion of those natural resources that men have plundered wantonly.
Eisenhower is my choice as the American of the 20th Century. Of all the men I've studied and written about, he is the brightest and the best.
Who today is willing to say that Texas and California and the remainder of the Southwest would be better off if they were governed by Mexico?
India has always had a strange way with her conquerors. In defeat, she beckons them in, then slowly seduces, assimilates and transforms them.
When I write I have no loyalty except to historical truth as I see it and care no more about British achievements and mistakes than any other.
Laws are always unstable unless they are founded on the manners of a nation; and manners are the only durable and resisting power in a people.
Every sea-captain who sailed to the West Indies was expected to bring home a turtle on the return voyage for a feast to his expectant friends.
The proper union of gin and vermouth is a great and sudden glory; it is one of the happiest marriages on earth, and one of the shortest lived.
In our so-called democracy we are accustomed to give the majority what they want rather than educate them to understand what is best for them.
The news appeals to the same jaded appetite that makes a child tire of a toy as soon as it becomes familiar and demand a new one in its place.
Once you choose to run for president of the United States and succeed, your earlier life, your biography, is a major part of American history.
Every now and again your life's course can turn on one simple thing, some small decision the import of which isn't at all obvious at the time.
They all start competing against Lincoln as the greatest president. And the [library] building becomes the symbol, the memorial to that dream.
It was among the ruins of the capitol that I first conceived the idea of a work which has amused and exercised nearly twenty years of my life.
In the middle of the sixteenth century, Spain was the incubus of Europe. Gloomy and portentous, she chilled the world with her baneful shadow.
I never knew a man go for an honest day's walk for whatever distance, great or small, and not have his reward in the repossession of his soul.
No student of history can fail to see the moral interest of the Middle Ages, any more than an artist can fail to see their aesthetic interest.
Charles Sumner's mind had reached the calm of WATER which receives and reflects images without absorbing them; it contains nothing but itself.
All taxation is an evil, but heavy taxes, indiscriminately levied on every everything are one of the greatest curses that can afflict a people
Laplace would have found it child's-play to fix a ratio of progression in mathematical science between Descartes, Leibnitz, Newton and himself
Every one must bear his own universe, and most persons are moderately interested in learning how their neighbors have managed to carry theirs.
Anyone who has spoken to experienced combat troops knows that they rarely brag about their exploits. Strong and silent is the preferred style.
As for myself, there are two things I dread, - death and marriage. I must die, but I need not marry. I have sworn I will never be taken alive.