I can express all my views on the slavery question by quotations from Henry Clay.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

Blacks, especially in America, have been raised with a slave mentality – they don’t feel that they have the right to speak as loud as possible.

Characters do not change. Opinions alter, but characters are only developed.

The lady doth protest too much, methinks.

The reactionary is always willing to take a progressive attitude on any issue that is dead.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

History should be written as philosophy.

When one begins to live by habit and by quotation, one has begun to stop living.

It pays to be obvious, especially if you have a reputation for subtlety.

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

Russia is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.

I think that in the discussion of natural problems we ought to begin not with the Scriptures, but with experiments, and demonstrations.

In doubtful cases the more liberal interpretation must always be preferred.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

I’m not concerned about all hell breaking loose, but that a PART of hell will break loose… it’ll be much harder to detect.

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

An economist’s guess is liable to be as good as anybody else’s.

How well he’s read, to reason against reading!

Atoms are very special: they like certain particular partners, certain particular directions, and so on. It is the job of physics to analyze why each one wants what it wants.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.

This administration is going to be cussed and discussed for years to come.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

I believe the Republicans have never thought that democracy was anything but a tribal myth.

Politically there were failures. And also on the personal level, there were tremendous failures.

We should not look at terrorism from the nameplates – which group they belong to, what is their geographical location, who are the victims. These individual groups or names will keep changing. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

In the last analysis, even the best man is evil: in the last analysis, even the best woman is bad.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

The distinguishing sign of slavery is to have a price, and to be bought for it.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

‚A living dog is better than a dead lion.‘ Judge Douglas, if not a dead lion for this work, is at least a caged and toothless one. How can he oppose the advances of slavery? He don’t care anything about it.

Hoover was a patriot in his heart, but he definitely exceeded his power.

The more you observe politics, the more you’ve got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

What we achieved was a nuclear pause, not a nuclear halt.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Slavery is a weed that grows on every soil.

A critic should be taught to criticise a work of art without making any reference to the personality of the author.

The man who could go to Africa and rob her of her children, and then sell them into interminable bondage, with no other motive than that which is furnished by dollars and cents, is so much worse than the most depraved murderer that he can never receive pardon at my hand.

Dispassionate objectivity is itself a passion, for the real and for the truth.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

The worst of madmen is a saint run mad.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

No one’s policing their own minds more than an author. You spend a lot of time in your own head analysing what you think about things, and a philosophy comes.

For my part, I consider that it will be found much better by all parties to leave the past to history, especially as I propose to write that history myself.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The trouble with our people is as soon as they got out of slavery they didn’t want to give the white man nothing else. But the fact is, you got to give em something. Either your money, your land, your woman or your ass.

Theories are always very thin and insubstantial, experience only is tangible.

If all the economists were laid end to end, they’d never reach a conclusion.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The political object is the goal, war is the means of reaching it, and the means can never be considered in isolation from their purposes.

‚Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems.

You do not examine legislation in the light of the benefits it will convey if properly administered, but in the light of the wrongs it would do and the harms it would cause if improperly administered.

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.