It is not a sign of arrogance for the king to rule. That is what he is there for.
William F. Buckley, Jr.
Although prepared for martyrdom I preferred that it be postponed.
Winston Churchill
When envoys are sent with compliments in their mouths it is a sign that the enemy wishes for a truce.
Sun Tzu
Self-hatred and self-love are equally self-centered.
Mason Cooley
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles
Asia is rich in people rich in culture and rich in resources. It is also rich in trouble.
Hubert H. Humphrey
There are two distinct classes of what are called thoughts: those that we produce in ourselves by reflection and the act of thinking and those that bolt into the mind of their own accord.
Thomas Paine
Truth lives in fact for the most part on a credit system. Our thoughts and beliefs pass so long as nothing challenges them just as bank-notes pass so long as nobody refuses them.
William James
Every friend of freedom must be as revolted as I am by the prospect of turning the United States into an armed camp by the vision of jails filled with casual drug users and of an army of enforcers empowered to invade the liberty of citizens on slight evidence.
Milton Friedman
Some years ago I became president of Columbia University and learned within 24 hours to be ready to speak at the drop of a hat and I learned something more the trustees were expected to be ready to speak at the passing of the hat.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
