It is not only the living who are killed in war.
Councils of war breed timidity and defeatism.
Preventing a war is tantamount to winning a war.
By reading so much, my vocabulary automatically improved along with my comprehension.
Half of the American people have never read a newspaper. Half never voted for President. One hopes it is the same half.
Men are April when they woo, December when they wed. Maids are May when they are maids, but the sky changes when they are wives.
You can't predict it all. People will tell you to plan things out as best you can. They will tell you to focus. They will tell you to follow your dreams. They will all be right.
What we call wisdom is the result of all the wisdom of past ages. Our best institutions are like young trees growing upon the roots of the old trunks that have crumbled away.
Never wear your best trousers when you go out to fight for freedom and truth.
One of the best kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment, if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
I consider those actors who amaze me are somehow less attractive to me than those actors who move me.
We are ready to engage in international co-operation against terrorism with a view to safeguarding national interests and regional security and stability.
The following year, after I had prepared my draft, the Conference of the Interparliamentary Union at The Hague decided to set up a special commission to study the problem seriously.
Poland is one of the few countries that can afford to conduct a conventional monetary policy and that means we have to act against the buildup of imbalances in the economy.
I opposed the Medicare prescription drug entitlement. I opposed the Wall Street bailout. I opposed the stimulus bill.
As much as I'm drawn to writing about teenage girls, I like the idea of having the freedom to branch out and write about different ages, for different ages.
Every revolution, bloody or not, has two phases. The first phase is defined by the struggle for freedom, the second by the struggle for power and revenge on the votaries of the ancien regime.
The stories from Iran's present and past are reminders that freedom, democracy and human rights, or fundamentalism, fascism and terrorism are not geographically and culturally determined, but universal.
I will never understand people who think that the way to show their righteous opposition to sexual freedom is to write letters full of filthy words.
Woe to that nation whose literature is cut short by the intrusion of force. This is not merely interference with freedom of the press but the sealing up of a nation's heart, the excision of its memory.
There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.
