The only excuse for war is that we may live in peace unharmed.

Politicians are not born; they are excreted.

Poor is the nation that has no heroes, but poorer still is the nation that having heroes, fails to remember and honor them.

It is the peculiar quality of a fool to perceive the faults of others and to forget his own.

Read at every wait; read at all hours; read within leisure; read in times of labor; read as one goes in; read as one goest out. The task of the educated mind is simply put: read to lead.

We learn nothing from history except that we learn nothing from history.

It is not enough to acquire wisdom, it is necessary to employ it.

Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.

Nothing is more unreliable than the populace, nothing more obscure than human intentions, nothing more deceptive than the whole electoral system.

To be ignorant of what occurred before you were born is to remain always a child.

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.

Don't work only hard to make i in life.Always work smart. Because people who work hard only end up with that.

Behavior has consequences, and stupid behavior often has terrible consequences.

I think, in my own state, I can tell you that people do want to hear a serious discussion on serious issues.

Thank Heaven! The crisis /The danger is past, and the lingering illness, is over at last /, and the fever called ''Living'' is conquered at last.

Still people are dangerous.

The collapse of Russia was the second great event of 1917.

We should tax every company's carbon footprint and the carbon footprint of every building and home, to incentivize people to reduce their carbon footprint.

Who needs Satan when you have a God like this?

There is strife between God s ways and human ways; damned by you, we are absolved by God.

The French revolution taught us the rights of man.