But the age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded; and the glory of Europe is extinguished forever.

Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow.

We travel often to Asia, Africa, Europe, where they were born.

Everybody born comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory. We come from the Creator with creativity. I think that each one of us is born with creativity.

Are we simply waving farewell to the days when some of the most interesting thinking in Europe and America came to us from our fiction film-makers? BBC2, which once introduced and showed great films, now shows none.

If we turn our backs of the Scythians who have provoked us, how shamefully shall we march against the revolted Bactrians; but if we pass Tanais and make the Scythians feel, by dear experience, that we are invincible, not in Asia only, it is not to be doubted but that Europe itself, as well as Asia, will come within the bounds of our conquests.

I believe that each of us comes from the Creator trailing wisps of glory.

There’s a lot of revisionist history that goes on these days about Iraq.

When you are nominated for the best player in Europe, the Ballon d’Or, playing in the Champions League, there is so much pressure. You don’t know what will happen. This pressure is inside you – you always have it.

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

Women have no sympathy and my experience of women is almost as large as Europe.

Sectional football games have the glory and the despair of war, and when a Texas team takes the field against a foreign state, it is an army with banners.

Unlike Europe, China can’t be intimidated. Europe backs down if the United States looks at it the wrong way. But China, they’ve been there for 3,000 years and are paying no attention to the barbarians and don’t see any need to.

From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic, an iron curtain has descended across the Continent.

Everything is possible, from angels to demons to economists and politicians.

In general, I think, U.S. policies remain constant, going back to the Second World War. But the capacity to implement them is declining.

We have listened too long to the courtly Muses of Europe.

The human bird shall take his first flight, filling the world with amazement, all writings with his fame, and bringing eternal glory to the nest whence he sprang.

You and I come by road or rail, but economists travel on infrastructure.

We have a firm commitment to NATO, we are a part of NATO. We have a firm commitment to Europe. We are a part of Europe.

To walk through the ruined cities of Germany is to feel an actual doubt about the continuity of civilization.

London is a roost for every bird.

Quite frankly, Russian aggression in Ukraine and its illegal occupation of Crimea remind us that we still have a good deal more work to do to guarantee the strategic vision of a Europe whole, free and at peace.

Our forces saved the remnants of the Jewish people of Europe for a new life and a new hope in the reborn land of Israel. Along with all men of good will, I salute the young state and wish it well.

An artist has no home in Europe except in Paris.

Baldwin thought Europe was a bore, and Chamberlain thought it was only a greater Birmingham.

Stupidity and human incompetence are the great evils, not ambition and glory.

God is not willing to do everything, and thus take away our free will and that share of glory which belongs to us.

Europe has what we do not have yet, a sense of the mysterious and inexorable limits of life, a sense, in a word, of tragedy. And we have what they sorely need: a sense of life’s possibilities.

Europe is so well gardened that it resembles a work of art, a scientific theory, a neat metaphysical system. Man has re-created Europe in his own image.

I believe that there are many herbs and many trees that are worth much in Europe for dyes and for medicines; but I do not know, and this causes me great sorrow. Arriving at this cape, I found the smell of the trees and flowers so delicious that it seemed the pleasantest thing in the world.

China is a great manufacturing center, but it’s actually mostly an assembly plant. So it assembles parts and components, high technology that comes from the surrounding industrial – more advanced industrial centers – Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, Singapore, the United States, Europe – and it basically assembles them.

The purpose of separation of church and state is to keep forever from these shores the ceaseless strife that has soaked the soil of Europe with blood for centuries.

There are GMO skeptics more in Europe maybe than in other places, but not exclusively.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

I think long term you can see Tesla establishing factories in Europe, in other parts of the U.S. and in Asia.

The Vietnam War was a great tragedy for our country. And it is now far enough away so that one can study without using the slogans to see what’s really happened.

The noblest spirit is most strongly attracted by the love of glory.

In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.

France had a policy, initiated by General de Gaulle, of trying to turn Europe into what was then called a ‚third force,‘ independent of the two superpowers, so Europe should pursue an independent course.

When we get piled upon one another in large cities, as in Europe, we shall become as corrupt as Europe.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.

To be perfectly just is an attribute of the divine nature; to be so to the utmost of our abilities, is the glory of man.

We did not raise armies for glory or for conquest.

A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism.

I’ve been away since I was pretty much eight, traveling to the car tracks, and then going to Europe and traveling more.

I have no doubt that Russia will and should remain a major source of energy supplies for Europe and the world.

Glory lies in the attempt to reach one’s goal and not in reaching it.

The deed is everything, the glory is naught.

Economists treat economics as if it is a pure science divorced from the facts of life. The result of this false accountancy is a willful confusion under cover of which industry wreaks its havoc scot-free and ignores the environmental cost.

All the armies of Europe, Asia and Africa combined, with all the treasure of the earth (our own excepted) in their military chest; with a Buonaparte for a commander, could not by force, take a drink from the Ohio, or make a track on the Blue Ridge, in a trial of a thousand years.

Every time I come to Europe, I’m just as excited as I was my very first time, which was many, many years ago. I love that part of the world, and I especially love the fans.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

I was in Europe and it was at this stage that I fell in love with Americans in uniform. And I continue to have that love affair.

In America, there’s a failure to appreciate Europe’s leading role in the world.

I was born in Europe… and I’ve traveled all over the world. I can tell you that there is no place, no country, that is more compassionate, more generous, more accepting, and more welcoming than the United States of America.

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

Nature hates calculators.