Donald Rumsfeld

Treat each federal dollar as if it was hard earned; it was – by a taxpayer.

It is easier to get into something than to get out of it.

Make decisions about the President’s personal security. He can overrule you, but don’t ask him to be the one to counsel caution.

Don’t automatically obey Presidential directives if you disagree or if you suspect he hasn’t considered key aspects of the issue.

In the execution of Presidential decisions work to be true to his views, in fact and tone.

Oh my goodness gracious, what you can buy off the Internet in terms of overhead photography. A trained ape can know an awful lot of what is going on in this world, just by punching on his mouse, for a relatively modest cost.

When we quarrel, how we wish we had been blameless.

You cannot run faster than a bullet.

To be free minded and cheerfully disposed at hours of meat and sleep and of exercise is one of the best precepts of long lasting.

Temperate temperance is best; intemperate temperance injures the cause of temperance.

Use, do not abuse; neither abstinence nor excess ever renders man happy.

Loyalty is still the same, whether it win or lose the game; true as a dial to the sun, although it be not shined upon.

A great man is always willing to be little.

History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot

Don’t part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have ceased to live.

My love for you was like a poem I wrote; one that I disregarded as average. Torn out, thrown away to the rubbish heap, waiting; wishing to be picked up and appreciated by someone else, for the masterpiece that it is.

The eye is easily frightened.

Be the change you want to see in the world.

Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est (Knowledge Itself Is Power)

The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.

He that would be superior to external influences must first become superior to his own passions.