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

Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves.

Politics I supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first.

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

Dissents speak to a future age.

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

I think that slavery is wrong, morally, socially and politically. I desire that it should be no further spread in these United States, and I should not object if it should gradually terminate in the whole Union.

All art is quite useless.

States are as the men, they grow out of human characters.

We never fully grasp the import of any true statement until we have a clear notion of what the opposite untrue statement would be.

Cunning… is but the low mimic of wisdom.

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

The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what fiction means.

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

The ‚free-floating intellectual‘ may occupy himself with problems because of their inherent interest and importance, perhaps to little effect.

Violence is the last refuge of the incompetent.

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

I have, indeed, no abhorrence of danger, except in its absolute effect – in terror.

Our lifetime may be the last that will be lived out in a technological society.

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

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.

Wit is the epitaph of an emotion.

Tyranny or slavery, born of selfishness, are the two educational methods of parents; all gradations of tyranny or slavery.

There is nothing in which people more betray their character than in what they laugh at.

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

A true critic ought to dwell upon excellencies rather than imperfections, to discover the concealed beauties of a writer, and communicate to the world such things as are worth their observation.

It’s not simply to say, ‚My colleagues are wrong, and I would do it this way,‘ but the greatest dissents do become court opinions.

It is much easier to be critical than to be correct.

Politics are a very unsatisfactory game.

It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.

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

I think the materialist conception of history is valid.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

Certainly, if you look at human behavior around the world, you have to admit that we can be very aggressive.

When the sword is once drawn, the passions of men observe no bounds of moderation.

You know, crankiness is at the essence of all comedy.

Philosophy is common sense with big words.

Truth is weirder than any fiction I’ve seen.

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

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

In our time political speech and writing are largely the defense of the indefensible.

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

Some people are making music just for numbers and views.

Oh, yes; you Virginians shed barrels of perspiration while standing off at a distance and superintending the work your slaves do for you. It is different with us. Here it is every fellow for himself, or he doesn’t get there.

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought.

The wisdom of the wise and the experience of the ages are perpetuated by quotations.

Experts often possess more data than judgment.

Industry need not wish.

We have communion with Christ in His thoughts, views, and purposes; for His thoughts are our thoughts according to our capacity and sanctity. Believers take the same view of matters as Jesus does; that which pleases Him pleases them, and that which grieves His grieves them also.

Let not the 12 million Negroes be ashamed of the fact that they are the grandchildren of slaves. There is dishonor in being slave-owners.

Romcoms are hard in a lot of ways: they’re built to be buoyant. It’s easy to demean them.

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

The most successful war seldom pays for its losses.

Ever since Newton, we’ve done science by taking things apart to see how they work. What the computer enables us to do is to put things together to see how they work: we’re now synthesized rather than analysed. I find one of the most enthralling aspects of computers is limitless communication.

In the last analysis, what we are communicates far more eloquently than anything we say or do.

History should be written as philosophy.

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

Among the friends of Union, there is great diversity of sentiment and of policy in regard to slavery and the African race among us.

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.

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.

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.