Quotes
The principal purpose of politics is the evolution and maintenance of a securely established ruling class with a justified sense of its own honourable superiority.
I am my brother's keeper, and he's sleeping pretty rough these days.
Father, dear father, come home with me now, The clock in the belfry strikes one; You said you were coming right home from the shop, As soon as your day's work was done.
Bring the good old bugle, boys! We'll sing another song.
Edgar W. Work
The real tragedy of life is not in being limited to one talent, but in the failure to use that one talent.
My life has ever been devoted to her service from my youth up, though never before in a cause like this - a cause for which I would most cheerfully risk and lay down my life.
I am dying, but with a strong hope and persuasion that my country will gain her independence.
Kevin A. Woolsey
The essence of wise living is anticipating the unanticipated and expecting the unexpected.
We want you nervous. We want you to realize this country and its allies are on the march and that we are on the side of those whom you - the Mubaraks, the Saudi royal family - most fear: we're on the side of your own people.
Space travel is utter bilge.
The grinding of the intellect is for most people as painful as a dentist's drill.
Anyone can be a barbarian; it requires a terrible effort to remain a civilized man.
Being a lady is an attitude.
There is no such thing in anyone's life as an unimportant day.
It seems like such a terrible shame that innocent civilians have to get hurt in wars, otherwise combat would be such a wonderfully healthy way to rid the human race of unneeded trash.
If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary; if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.
Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.
The support in Britain made a big difference.