The British constitution has always been puzzling and always will be.

I don’t see the wisdom in modern politicians that I once saw in men like Dean Acheson, David Bruce, or George Marshall. In my day, the northeastern establishment dominated foreign policy formulation, but the composition and distribution of our population is very different today.

In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way.

I do think there should be some regulations on AI.

For my name and memory I leave to men’s charitable speeches, and to foreign nations and the next ages.

I don’t say very much I don’t really think through. I know that sounds inconsistent with Joe Biden.

I would rather drink weedkiller than support Obamacare.

I shall proceed from the simple to the complex. But in war more than in any other subject we must begin by looking at the nature of the whole; for here more than elsewhere the part and the whole must always be thought of together.

Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton both had exceptional natural abilities. Nelson Rockefeller was very good statewide but never gained national traction.

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

I’m afraid the SS’s relationship with the Catholic Church is something the Church still has to deal with and does not deny.

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

The people made worse off by slavery were those who were enslaved. Their descendants would have been worse off today if born in Africa instead of America. Put differently, the terrible fate of their ancestors benefitted them.

In my country we go to prison first and then become President.

Those who had demanded no more than an end to the bombing of North Vietnam and a commitment to negotiations saw their demands being realized, and lapsed into silence.

I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you’re sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me – so am I.

Divorce is probably of nearly the same date as marriage. I believe, however, that marriage is some weeks the more ancient.

Whatever final judgment awaits ‚Bush v. Gore‘ in the annals of history, I am certain that the good work and good faith of the U.S. federal judiciary as a whole will continue to sustain public confidence at a level never beyond repair.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

Democracy is a pathetic belief in the collective wisdom of individual ignorance.

I noticed words crudely spray-painted upon the wall, perhaps by a young Berliner: ‚This wall will fall. Beliefs become reality.‘ Yes, across Europe, this wall will fall. For it cannot withstand faith; it cannot withstand truth. The wall cannot withstand freedom.

Obama has succeeded in descending even below George W. Bush in approval in the Arab world. It’s minuscule, few percent.

For the first time in my adult lifetime, I am really proud of my country. And not just because Barack has done well, but because I think people are hungry for change. And I have been desperate to see our country moving in that direction.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn’t be here. It’d still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.

Anywhere in Latin America there is a potential threat of the pathology of caudillismo and it has to be guarded against.

Physics has a history of synthesizing many phenomena into a few theories.

I believed what my father taught me about the separation of church and state, so when I was President I never invited Billy Graham to have services in the White House because I didn’t think that was appropriate. He was injured a little bit, until I explained it to him.

The history of men’s opposition to women’s emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

The governments of the present day have to deal not merely with other governments, with emperors, kings and ministers, but also with the secret societies which have everywhere their unscrupulous agents, and can at the last moment upset all the governments‘ plans.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

The entering class I joined in 1956 included just nine women, up from five in the then second-year class, and only one African American. All professors, in those now-ancient days, were of the same race and sex.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

When I came to Johannesburg from the countryside, I knew nobody, but many strangers were very kind to me. I then was dragged into politics, and then, subsequently, I became a lawyer.

There were plenty of other hominids, but they disappeared, probably because humans exterminated them, but nobody knows for sure.

Money and investing can be complex, confusing, and often boring subjects.

Histories are more full of examples of the fidelity of dogs than of friends.

There’s a lot of fuss on the Left about election irregularities, like, you know, the voting machines were tampered with, they didn’t count the votes right, and so on. That’s all accurate and of some importance, but of far more importance is the fact that elections just don’t take place, not in any meaningful sense of the term ‚election.‘

Domestic policy can only defeat us; foreign policy can kill us.

When I look back at what I had to go through in black baseball, I can only marvel at the many black players who stuck it out for years in the Jim Crow leagues because they had nowhere else to go.

Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it.

History is more or less bunk.

The United States is a nation of laws: badly written and randomly enforced.

I haven’t been very active in politics.

The Bible is full of warnings about false prophets and false messiahs. These satanically inspired people have appeared in almost every generation of history.

Divide and rule, the politician cries; unite and lead, is watchword of the wise.

John Dalton’s records, carefully preserved for a century, were destroyed during the World War II bombing of Manchester. It is not only the living who are killed in war.

The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.

The charm of history and its enigmatic lesson consist in the fact that, from age to age, nothing changes and yet everything is completely different.

Every Republican’s voted for it. Look at what they value and look at their budget and what they’re proposing. Romney wants to let the – he said in the first 100 days he’s going to let the big banks once again write their own rules – unchain Wall Street. They’re gonna put y’all back in chains.

Ultimately, a real understanding of history means that we face nothing new under the sun.

It is as hard and severe a thing to be a true politician as to be truly moral.

Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.

I have always been an old-line Henry Clay Whig.

There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

Among the many misdeeds of the British rule in India, history will look upon the act depriving a whole nation of arms as the blackest.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

Liverpool is a club with a big, big, big history, and all the clubs in the world have a big history if the present is not too successful. If you have never had success, then nobody knows how it is, but in Liverpool, everybody knows how it was.

I believe we can continue the Great Society while we fight in Vietnam.