The courage of New England was the courage of conscience. It did not rise to that insane and awful passion, the love of war for itself.

Its Constitution--the glittering and sounding generalities of natural right which make up the Declaration of Independence.

Happy is he who has laid up in his youth, and held fast in all fortune, a genuine and passionate love of reading.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

I will look, your Honor, and endeavor to find a precedent, if you require it; though it would seem to be a pity that the Court should lose the honor of being the first to establish so just a rule.

A book is the only immortality.

There was a state without king or nobles; there was a church without a bishop; there was a people governed by grave magistrates which it had selected, and by equal laws which it had framed.

The final end of government is not to exert restraint but to do good.

We have built no temple but the Capitol. We consult no common oracle but the Constitution.

Anything more low, obscene, feculent, the manifold heaving's of history have not cast up. We shall come to the worship of onions, cats and things vermiculite.

We join ourselves to no party that does not carry the flag and I keep step to the music of the Union.

I think there are two ways in which people are controlled. First of all frighten people and secondly, demoralise them.

The greatest trap in our life is not success, popularity or power, but self-rejection.

The official Hamas charter calls for the murder of Jews and destruction of the Jewish state.

Nothing was a style first. Everything started as an idea. A guy did something with an idea. Someone copied him. Some copied all of them and it became trendy and then it became a style.

Detailed descriptions, abstract ambitions, relevant observations, your's and mine.

Hatred is not contained in political thinking. Any hatred worked up against the public enemy is non-political, and always shows some weakness in the internal political situation.

This is the month, and this the happy morn, wherein the Son of heaven's eternal King, of wedded Maid and Virgin Mother born, our great redemption from above did bring.

I had no idea 'The Hunger Games' was so big. I didn't even know the book. I had been living under my own rock.

Slavery built the South. I'm not saying we should bring it back; I'm just saying it had its merits. For one thing, the streets were safer after dark.

I can't stand politicians who wear God on their sleeves.