As abhorrent as some of this content can be, I do think that it gets down to this principle of giving people a voice.

Although the big word on the left is ‚compassion,‘ the big agenda on the left is dependency.

The principle of all successful effort is to try to do not what is absolutely the best, but what is easily within our power, and suited for our temperament and condition.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

If there is one principle more deeply rooted in the mind of every American, it is that we should have nothing to do with conquest.

Nothing is more despicable than respect based on fear.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

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

My speculation is that the U.S. does not want to establish the principle that it has to defer to some higher authority before carrying out the use of violence.

Thinking fragments reality – it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.

I guess every single word I’ve ever said is going to be dissected now.

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

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

Prejudices are what fools use for reason.

The value of a principle is the number of things it will explain.

A president has an inescapable responsibility to provide direction: What are we trying to achieve? What are we trying to prevent? Why? To do that, he has to both analyze and reflect.

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

Infinites, when considered absolutely without any restriction or limitation, are neither equal nor unequal, nor have any certain proportion one to another, and therefore, the principle that all infinites are equal is a precarious one.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

It is my belief that nearly any invented quotation, played with confidence, stands a good chance to deceive.

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

There’s no art to find the mind’s construction in the face.

Conservatism discards Prescription, shrinks from Principle, disavows Progress; having rejected all respect for antiquity, it offers no redress for the present, and makes no preparation for the future.

The answers you get from literature depend on the questions you pose.

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.

To insure the adoration of a theorem for any length of time, faith is not enough, a police force is needed as well.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

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

It is always good men who do the most harm in the world.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

If you’re in business or politics, you need to have an intense understanding of what’s going on around you.

All art is quite useless.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

The virtues, like the Muses, are always seen in groups. A good principle was never found solitary in any breast.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

The difference between literature and journalism is that journalism is unreadable and literature is not read.

It is easy enough to define what the Commonwealth is not. Indeed this is quite a popular pastime.

There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted.

The Holy Roman Empire is neither Holy, nor Roman, nor an Empire.

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.

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

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

What do I think of Western civilization? I think it would be a very good idea.

I read the book of Job last night, I don’t think God comes out well in it.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Criticism is prejudice made plausible.

The method of nature: who could ever analyze it?

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

There’s a tremendous gap between public opinion and public policy.

It amazes me sometimes that even intelligent people will analyze a situation or make a judgement after only recognizing the standard or traditional structure of a piece.

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

If you judge, investigate.

I’m a writer. I don’t support any war. That’s my principle.

The Army will take its lessons learned. They’re excellent at looking into themselves and reflecting on what did we do right, what did we do wrong.

Industry need not wish.