Quote #8806
Overlook our deeds, since you know that crime was absent from our inclination.
Quote #7269
There will be no whitewash in the White House. (On Watergate investigation)
Quote #19805
War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is...
Quote #16064
Love is blind friendship closes its eyes.
Quote #18078
The recognition that no knowledge can be complete, no metaphor entire, is itself humanizing....
Quote #10340
I don’t believe in pessimism. If something doesn’t come up the way you want,...
Quote #16186
We do not live to extenuate the miseries of the past nor to accept...
Quote #7313
The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find...
Quote #19841
Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude.
Quote #4240
Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.