Quote #30252
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
Quote #3970
Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles.
Quote #32147
I sit on a man’s back, choking him and making him carry me, and...
Quote #30212
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so...
Quote #34027
The fact that when we die we are nothing more than worm meat—I just...
Quote #27616
A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big...
Quote #6152
Everything of importance has been said before by somebody who did not discover it.
Quote #15021
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Quote #10426
Ah, make the most of what we yet may spend, before we too into...
Quote #7551
Perfection of moral virtue does not wholly take away the passions, but regulates them.