Newspapers are the second hand of history. This hand, however, is usually not only of inferior metal to the other hands, it also seldom works properly.

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves – and the better the teacher, the better the student body.

If… many influential people have failed to understand, or have just forgotten, what we were up against in the Cold War and how we overcame it, they are not going to be capable of securing, let alone enlarging, the gains that liberty has made.

Luckily for me, people don’t scream at me that much in my everyday life.

‚No comment‘ is a splendid expression. I am using it again and again.

Headlines, in a way, are what mislead you because bad news is a headline, and gradual improvement is not.

The idea that women were oppressed throughout history is an appalling theory.

I tended to place my wife under a pedestal.

The world would be happier if men had the same capacity to be silent that they have to speak.

Antiquities are history defaced, or some remnants of history which have casually escaped the shipwreck of time.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

I read the NY Times but I don’t trust all of it.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about.

There is only one thing in life worse than being talked about, and that is not being talked about.

The U.S.S.R. had absolutely nothing to do with the triumph of the Cuban Revolution.

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.

When marrying, ask yourself this question: Do you believe that you will be able to converse well with this person into your old age? Everything else in marriage is transitory.

When he to whom one speaks does not understand, and he who speaks himself does not understand, that is metaphysics.

Woz is living his own life now. He hasn’t been around Apple for about five years. But what he did will go down in history.

Whenever a husband and wife begin to discuss their marriage they are giving evidence at a coroner’s inquest.

Though silence is not necessarily an admission, it is not a denial, either.

I did my utmost to ensure that everyone below me in the chain of command felt comfortable approaching me with concerns, ideas, thoughts, and even disagreements.

London is a roost for every bird.

The history of all previous societies has been the history of class struggles.

It’s human nature to not say everything that’s on your mind at the time you think it. Because we fear saying something that people will laugh at, people will think is dumb. We’re afraid of being embarrassed.

I want to be a man who is truthful and who won’t let pride get in the way of my ripping myself open to my partner and saying, ‚Here I am. This is me.‘ I feel there’s something powerful when a man reaches a point in his life when he can be completely vulnerable.

A speech idiosyncrasy, in the same way as an air quote, is really justifiable only if it’s employed very sparingly and if the user consciously intends to be using it.

I’m guarded; I don’t talk much.

If you can’t answer a man’s arguments, all is not lost; you can still call him vile names.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

The deceit and distortion surrounding the American invasion of Vietnam is by now so familiar that it has lost its power to shock.

Some of our earliest writing, in cuneiform, was about who owes what.

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

I’ll be glad to reply to or dodge your questions, depending on what I think will help our election most.

Someday, after mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world, man will have discovered fire.

History has demonstrated that the most notable winners usually encountered heartbreaking obstacles before they triumphed. They won because they refused to become discouraged by their defeats.

I try to speak in everyday language. I feel like God has gifted me to take Bible principles and make them practical.

Hence poetry is something more philosophic and of graver import than history, since its statements are rather of the nature of universals, whereas those of history are singulars.

If you look at the history of Notre Dame, if you hire a coach who’s been successful at another college program, they’re going to be ultra successful at Notre Dame because the talent will always be there.

Humans cannot avoid trying to influence others. Everything we say or do is examined and interpreted by others for clues as to our intentions.

If you’d have said Evangelical in 1957, most people wouldn’t know what you were talking about. And then, they’d be against it.

I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.

When your mother asks, ‚Do you want a piece of advice?‘ it is a mere formality. It doesn’t matter if you answer yes or no. You’re going to get it anyway.

Money has a language of its own.

Coffee is a language in itself.

Both times I was in India, I could not get people to listen to each other. I had to literally tell people to listen to each other and tell them that they can’t get creative and find alternate solutions if they don’t listen to each other. There’s a lot of arguing and justifying.

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall!

I wish I could shut up, but I can’t, and I won’t.

Back, you know, a few generations ago, people didn’t have a way to share information and express their opinions efficiently to a lot of people. But now they do. Right now, with social networks and other tools on the Internet, all of these 500 million people have a way to say what they’re thinking and have their voice be heard.

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

Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.

In one thousand years of Russia’s existence, its first popular national election ever to be held occurred in June 1991. Six days later, the Mormon Tabernacle Choir performed in Moscow!

Facebook is really about communicating and telling stories… We think that people can really help spread awareness of organ donation and that they want to participate in this to their friends. And that can be a big part of helping solve the crisis that’s out there.

We all remember Abraham Lincoln as the leader who saved our Union. Founder of the Republican Party.

We’re not trying to make you less of a man. We just want you to love us as deeply and as wholesomely and as fully as we love you.

The press is the hired agent of a monied system, and set up for no other purpose than to tell lies where their interests are involved. One can trust nobody and nothing.

There are many times when a woman will ask another girl friend how she likes her new hat. She will reply, ‚Fine,‘ but slap her hand to her forehead the minute the girl leaves to yipe, ‚What a horror!‘

World War II broke out in 1939, and many people credit that war with saving the economy.

I was losing interest in politics, when the repeal of the Missouri Compromise aroused me again. What I have done since then is pretty well known.

If you want the present to be different from the past, study the past.