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

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

Poetry is nearer to vital truth than history.

I seem to smell the stench of appeasement in the air.

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

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.

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

The stroke of death is as a lover’s pinch, which hurts and is desired.

Though she be but little, she is fierce.

Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason.

How oft the sight of means to do ill deeds makes ill deeds done!

When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.

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

There are many men who are forgotten, who are despised, and who are trampled on by their fellows, but there never was a man who was so despised as the everlasting God has been!

See first, think later, then test. But always see first. Otherwise, you will only see what you were expecting. Most scientists forget that.

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

Is it not rather what we expect in men, that they should have numerous strands of experience lying side by side and never compare them with each other?

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

The difference is too nice – Where ends the virtue or begins the vice.

Gold is good in its place; but loving, brave, patriotic men are better than gold.

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.

I am not bound to please thee with my answer.

Realists do not fear the results of their study.

Politics is the entertainment branch of industry.

If we lose love and self respect for each other, this is how we finally die.

Waste brings woe, and sorrow hates despair.

Men do not learn much from the lessons of history and that is the most important of all the lessons of history.

Immigration laws are the only laws that are discussed in terms of how to help people who break them.

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

What is past is prologue.

Men must live and create. Live to the point of tears.

Health consists with temperance alone.

Sleep is the interest we have to pay on the capital which is called in at death; and the higher the rate of interest and the more regularly it is paid, the further the date of redemption is postponed.

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

History does nothing; it does not possess immense riches, it does not fight battles. It is men, real, living, who do all this.

Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?

Trust men and they will be true to you; treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

The men who followed Him were unique in their generation. They turned the world upside down because their hearts had been turned right side up. The world has never been the same.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted… but to weigh and consider.

Men are more easily governed through their vices than through their virtues.

The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it… I can resist everything but temptation.

The virtue of justice consists in moderation, as regulated by wisdom.

Why not invest your assets in the companies you really like? As Mae West said, ‚Too much of a good thing can be wonderful‘.

‚Tis education forms the common mind; just as the twig is bent the tree’s inclined.

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

There’s a personality trait known as agreeableness. Agreeable people are compassionate and polite. And agreeable people get paid less than disagreeable people for the same job. Women are more agreeable than men.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

It will be found, in fact, that the ingenious are always fanciful, and the truly imaginative never otherwise than analytic.

Long before history began we men have got together apart from the women and done things. We had time.

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

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Sometimes the first duty of intelligent men is the restatement of the obvious.

No man has any natural authority over his fellow men.

If people think nature is their friend, then they sure don’t need an enemy.

I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

A house divided against itself cannot stand.

History should be written as philosophy.

Hell is empty and all the devils are here.

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