Routine is supposed to be the great deadener of souls; how much worse is the half-completed task, the broken round, the unfulfilled routine?

Libertarians are believers in small government who really mean it -- no excuses, no exceptions. [For Libertarians], the excesses of government are their best recruiters.

Depression manifests itself in a lack of will.

The Dutch practice euthanasia so briskly that they will kill themselves even before the Islamists get around to it.

Aaron Burr was like a new refrigerator. He was bright, cold and empty.

[Washington had won] a war for independence and then gone home. [He embodied] the legend of the Roman who returned to his plow after saving his country.

Madison loathed Hamilton and loved Jefferson above all.

Only the stupefying ignorance of young women prevents them from comprehending the stupefying emptiness of the men who cluster round them.

One of the benefits of a bad education is the constant pleasure of discovery.

Madison lived in his head and public speaking did not come naturally to him.

Some lawns have all the cheer of old cemeteries.

Duty is a good thing, a calling without which no civilization can survive, but it is also a weight and chain that sometimes seems sure to sink you to the airless bottom of a dark pool

An author must be nothing if he do not love truth; a barrister must be nothing if he do.

The security of the citizens of Israel, the future of the state of Israel, this is the Israeli governments responsibility.

Life insurance is time. The time a man might not have. If he needs time, he needs life insurance.

The long run is what puts the tiger in the cat.

I'd love to be popular in Barcelona. That sounds like a fun job

The papacy is an impossible job. So the best thing Catholics can do for the pope is to pray for him.

Watching two women kiss is like watching two prizefighters shake hands.

I do think awful things may happen at any moment, so while they are not happening, you may as well be pleased.

All men are naturally included to obscure the morally ambiguous element in their political cause by investing it with religious sanctity.