Quote #30212
The single most exciting thing you encounter in government is competence, because it’s so...
Quote #15933
Acknowledgment – If you wish your merit to be known, acknowledge that of other...
Quote #31234
A fondness for satire indicates a mind pleased with irritating others for myself, I...
Quote #22755
The mind is a strange machine which can combine the materials offered to it...
Quote #23078
To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity.
Quote #21621
If there is to be any peace it will come through being, not having.
Quote #13655
Immature love says, “I love you because I need you.” Mature love says, “I...
Quote #11647
The power to tax, once conceded, has no limits; it contains until it destroys.
Quote #11432
Diplomacy: lying in state.
Quote #17352
To live as one likes is plebian the noble man aspires to order and...