Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be alone than in bad company.
'Youth is the time for loving, so poets always say.
When I was in China, Mao was Chairman, and parents were terrified to tell their children anything that differed from the party line in case the children repeated it and endangered the whole family.
The Chinese government is quickly losing its ideological legitimacy, maintain its rule with force, but cannot draw strength from the ideology of Marx and Mao.
Libraries have had a long history of dealing with authoritarian organizations demanding reader records - who's read what - and this has led to people being rounded up and killed.
The notion of 'history from below' hit the history profession in England very hard around the time I came to Oxford in the early 1960s.
I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent, of human knowledge, that has ever been gathered at the White House - with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone.
A great department store, easily reached, open at all hours, is more like a good museum of art than any of the museums we have yet established.
He wanted to fuck her loudly on a hard bed with rain beating on the windows.
The United States attorney in South Carolina was a Barack Obama appointee. Politically, he is to the left of Mao Zedong.
Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.
Too many adults wish to 'protect' teenagers when they should be stimulating them to read of life as it is lived.
Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp.
I knew I could not maintain that leadership in open struggle against Moscow influence. Only two Communist leaders in history ever succeeded in doing this - Tito and Mao Tse-tung.
When you tell people you're in history, they give you this pained expression because that was the course they hated in high school. But history can be exciting, intellectually rigorous, and fun.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.
I have a dream that one day on the red hills of Georgia, the sons of former slaves and the sons of former slave owners will be able to sit together at the table of brotherhood.
I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.
Where there is an absence of international political leadership, civil society should step in to fill the gap, providing the energy and vision needed to move the world in a new and better direction.
In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.
Chairman Mao not only introduced Pinyin in China, but also simplified half the Chinese characters, believing that fewer strokes would enable more people to learn to write the characters.
