The experience of history exalts and enlarges the horizon of our intellectual view.

History is not merely what happened. It is what happened in the context of what might have happened.

To find agreements in one's minority opinions is one of the great pleasures of reading.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism."

The function of genius is not to give new answers, but to pose new questions which time and mediocrity can resolve.

The victory of liberalism enables them to sue their victors.

Sometimes you know in your heart you love someone, but you have to go away before your head can figure it out.

You can gain in your effectiveness as a politician from a wide acquaintance with the world and from a degree of independence that having some outside interests gives.

Freedom is nothing but the distance between the hunter and the hunted.

I love pets and I love animals, and I just got a new puppy, a new rescue named Peanut. She's a tiny little Chihuahua mix.

My favorite sound is definitely mules. If it was an instrument, it's really pingthe touch of the black keys of the piano.

In the history of the United States, there is no continuity at all. You can cut through it anywhere and nothing on this side of the cut has anything to do with anything on the other side.

One must wage war against his predominant passion and not retreat until, with God's help, he has been victorious.

If things don’t seem right, try going left.” – Chloe Traeger

The only reason that you do visual is solely for the visual. That's the only reason. It doesn't sell your music for you.

You can't hit a target you cannot see, and you cannot see a target you do not have