Men should pledge themselves to nothing, for reflection makes a liar of their resolution.

Size is not grandeur and territory does not make a nation.

I believe that the great painters with their intellect as master have attempted to force this unwilling medium of paint and canvas into a record of their emotions.

Third we will make trade work for America by forging new trade agreements. And when nations cheat in trade there will be unmistakable consequences.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

Poetry should surprise by a fine excess and not by singularity it should strike the reader as a wording of his own highest thoughts and appear almost a remembrance.

The market outperformed business for a very long time and that phenomenon had to end

Helped are those who create anything at all for they shall relive the thrill of their own conception and realize a partnership in the creation of the Universe that keeps them responsible and cheerful.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

You speak of Lord Byron and me, there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

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