The stability of modern governments above the ancient, and the accuracy of modern philosophy, have improved, and probably will still improve, by similar gradations.

There is no such thing as freedom of choice unless there is freedom to refuse.

Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.

Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.

A wise man proportions his belief to the evidence.

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

The life of man is of no greater importance to the universe than that of an oyster.

Be a philosopher but, amid all your philosophy be still a man.

A propensity to hope and joy is real riches; one to fear and sorrow real poverty.

All knowledge degenerates into probability.

It is an absurdity to believe that the Deity has human passions, and one of the lowest of human passions, a restless appetite for applause

Our job in life is not to be successful, but to be faithful.

If we don't succeed we run the risk of failure.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

I know if I stopped hosting 'Wine Library TV,' we'd probably lose 75 percent of our audience, but the remaining 25 percent is still a big number.

It was an agreement between Saddam (Hussein) and the shah of Iran and not between Iraq and Iran.

Democracy is the most vile form of government.

Justice is blind until she gets the person that blinded her. Then it's payback time.

We are very definitely in a new phase in the global terrorist threat where the so-called lone wolf could strike at any moment.

When reason sleeps, the monsters of repression will emerge.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.