There is only one way to avoid criticism: do nothing, say nothing, and be nothing.
Democracy arose from men's thinking that if they are equal in any respect, they are equal absolutely.
It is impossible, or not easy, to alter by argument what has long been absorbed by habit
No great mind has ever existed without a touch of madness.
He who cannot be a good follower cannot be a good leader.
Learning is not child's play; we cannot learn without pain.
All persons ought to endeavor to follow what is right, and not what is established.
We are what we repeatedly do. Greatness then, is not an act, but a habit
Political society exists for the sake of noble actions, and not of mere companionship.
History does not usually make real sense until long afterward.
Protecting people from the truth is another way of shutting them out.
There has been a shift to what may be defined as a culture of negativity which goes well beyond coverage of politics.
American voters have to pay closer attention to politics if they want to avoid four years of whining about the outcome.
Patriotism is strong nationalistic feeling for a country whose borders and whose legitimacy and whose ethnic composition is taken for granted.
Historically, war journalists have embedded themselves with one side, which means the greatest threat comes from the clearly delineated enemy of that side.
It's hard to write a war story without thinking about the 'Iliad.' Because the 'Iliad' knows everything about war.
Really, when it comes to gay rights, there's two wars going on. The first war is political. But the culture war is over.
If I can just see the European war out I think I might feel justified in quitting the war.
For a decade or more after the Vietnam war, the people who had guided the U.S. to disaster decently shrank from the public stage.
Books about women and children are not valued in the same way as a book about war. And why is that? I don't know.
I never desired to go into war zones. I never had any thought about it. It sort of just happened as part of the job.
