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

We call a man a bigot or a slave of dogma because he is a thinker who has thought thoroughly and to a definite end.

I don’t think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times.

You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

Fame is but the breath of people, and that often unwholesome.

Politics is the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn’t happen.

Get your facts first, then you can distort them as you please.

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.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Sure, women sportswriters look when they’re in the clubhouse. Read their stories. How else do you explain a capital letter in the middle of a word?

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.

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.

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.

The story as told in The Odyssey doesn’t hold water. There are too many inconsistencies.

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

Biographies are but the clothes and buttons of the man. The biography of the man himself cannot be written.

If you judge, investigate.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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

We should work with the principle that a work that can be done at a lower level should never be escalated to a higher level.

In no instance have… the churches been guardians of the liberties of the people.

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

History, a distillation of rumour.

I should like to know if, taking this old Declaration of Independence, which declares that all men are equal upon principle, you begin making exceptions to it, where will you stop? If one man says it does not mean a Negro, why not another say it does not mean some other man?

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

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Humor is the most engaging cowardice.

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.

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

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

It’s not a coincidence that in the Scriptures, poverty is mentioned more than 2,100 times. It’s not an accident. That’s a lot of air time, 2,100 mentions.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Pop is totally results-oriented and there is a very strong feedback loop.

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

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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

Look at situations from all angles, and you will become more open.

The fundamental cause of the trouble is that in the modern world the stupid are cocksure while the intelligent are full of doubt.

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

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning.

I do not believe any of the statistical claims that are made about public opinion. I don’t see why anybody does.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

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

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

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

History should be written as philosophy.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Industry need not wish.

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

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

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.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

The deepest principle in human nature is the craving to be appreciated.

Women. They are a complete mystery.

The usual fortune of complaint is to excite contempt more than pity.

Analysis is like a lobotomy. Who wants to have all their edges shaved off?

Realists do not fear the results of their study.