A national debt if it is not excessive will be to us a national blessing.
Alexander Hamilton
Melancholy indeed should be diverted by every means but drinking.
Samuel Johnson
I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.
Andrew Jackson
Propaganda to be effective must be believed. To be believed it must be credible. To be credible it must be true.
Hubert H. Humphrey
One mustn't always believe that feeling is everything. In the arts it is nothing without form.
Gustave Flaubert
If there be a love pure and free from the admixture of our other passions it is that which lies hidden in the bottom of our heart and which we know not ourselves.
Francois de La Rochefoucauld
The poor are prevented from thinking by the discipline of others the rich by their own.
Theodor W. Adorno
Politics is human beings, it's addition rather than subtraction.
Donald Rumsfeld
Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch.
James Arthur Baldwin
There are few very few that will own themselves in a mistake.
Jonathan Swift
