‚I am‘ is reportedly the shortest sentence in the English language. Could it be that ‚I do‘ is the longest sentence?

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

The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.

Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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.

Much that passes as idealism is disguised hatred or disguised love of power.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

If the experiments which I urge be defective, it cannot be difficult to show the defects; but if valid, then by proving the theory, they must render all objections invalid.

The U.S. increasingly has taken on the characteristics of what we describe as ‚failed states.‘

If you look at ‚Blade Runner,‘ it’s been cut sixteen ways from Sunday, and there are all kinds of different versions of it.

Language is the dress of thought.

Cobb is a prick. But he sure can hit. God Almighty, that man can hit.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Let blockheads read what blockheads wrote.

History, a distillation of rumour.

The intersection of law, politics, and technology is going to force a lot of good thinking.

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.

The Cuban model doesn’t even work for us anymore.

For, if a good speaker, never so eloquent, does not see into the fact, and is not speaking the truth of that – is there a more horrid kind of object in creation?

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

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.

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

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

You could imagine a language exactly like English except it doesn’t have connectives like ‚and‘ that allow you to make longer expressions. An infant learning truncated English would have no idea about this: They would just pick it up as they would standard English.

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

The human brain is an incredible pattern-matching machine.

Reputation is an idle and most false imposition; oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

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

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

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

Froth at the top, dregs at bottom, but the middle excellent.

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

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

I don’t think there’s anything unique about human intelligence.

The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision.

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

Mind you, the Elizabethans had so many words for the female genitals that it is quite hard to speak a sentence of modern English without inadvertently mentioning at least three of them.

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

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

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

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

Language is an intrinsic part of who we are and what has, for good or evil, happened to us.

This is not writing at all. Indeed, I could say that Shakespeare surpasses literature altogether, if I knew what I meant.

President Obama is the greatest hoax ever perpetrated on the American people.

I don’t do Shakespeare. I don’t talk in that kind of broken English.

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Today, all physicists know from studying Einstein and Bohr that sometimes an idea which looks completely paradoxical at first, if analyzed to completion in all detail and in experimental situations, may, in fact, not be paradoxical.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

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

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

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

I am most familiar with the Gujarati language.

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

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

Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

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

I have been struck again and again by how important measurement is to improving the human condition.

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.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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

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