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

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

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

We are too much accustomed to attribute to a single cause that which is the product of several, and the majority of our controversies come from that.

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

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

History, a distillation of rumour.

The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.

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?

Stupidity is a talent for misconception.

There is no just and serene criticism as yet.

Do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.

I’m the first to admit this whole salary thing is getting out of control. In the final analysis, it’s still about the work.

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.

White people just don’t want their slaves to be free. That’s the whole thing.

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

Dictatorship naturally arises out of democracy, and the most aggravated form of tyranny and slavery out of the most extreme liberty.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

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

When you look at a corporation, just like when you look at a slave owner, you want to distinguish between the institution and the individual. So slavery, for example, or other forms of tyranny, are inherently monstrous. The individuals participating in them may be the nicest guys you can imagine.

At ev’ry word a reputation dies.

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. Today you are looking at the Taliban or ISIS; tomorrow you might be looking at another name.

Politics… have always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

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.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties.

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

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

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

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

There is no gambling like politics.

I’ve analyzed the best I can… and I have not found an impeachable offense, and therefore resignation is not an acceptable course.

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.

Fame is a fickle food upon a shifting plate.

It’s no wonder that truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

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

In spite of his practical ability, some of his experience had petrified into maxims and quotations.

Either the opponents of slavery will arrest the further spread of it and place it where the public mind shall rest in the belief that it is in course of ultimate extinction, or its advocates will push it forward, till it shall become alike lawful in all the States – old as well as new – North as well as South.

The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.

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

When you think about it, Adolf Hitler was the first pop star.

Maybe stories are just data with a soul.

Nothing is so fatal to religion as indifference.

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

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.

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.

In politics stupidity is not a handicap.

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.

I think, in many people’s minds, the Confederate battle flag is not only a memorial to our ancestors, which is perfectly OK, but also a symbol of white superiority and an inclination for people to believe that even slavery would’ve been OK.

How prone to doubt, how cautious are the wise!

You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.

Blood alone moves the wheels of history.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

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

There are two bowlers who I think are very tough to play against – Dale Steyn and Morne Morkel.

Slavery is founded in the selfishness of man’s nature – opposition to it is his love of justice. These principles are an eternal antagonism; and when brought into collision so fiercely, as slavery extension brings them, shocks and throes and convulsions must ceaselessly follow.

The economy’s always been the engine for our national security.

I believe this government cannot endure permanently, half slave and half free.

War is peace. Freedom is slavery. Ignorance is strength.

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.