Henry David Thoreau

To have done anything just for money is to have been truly idle.

There is no remedy for love than to love more.

I have been breaking silence these twenty-three years and have hardly made a rent in it.

It is never too late to give up our prejudices.

You know about a person who deeply interests you more than you can be told. A look, a gesture, an act, which to everybody else is insignificant tells you more about that one than words can.

It is interesting to observe with what singular unanimity the farthest sundered nations and generations consent to give completeness and roundness to an ancient fable, of which they indistinctly appreciate the beauty or the truth. By a faint and dream-like effort, though it be only by the vote of a scientific body, the dullest posterity slowly add some trait to the mythus. As when astronomers call the lately discovered planet Neptune; or the asteroid Astr.

We live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

I give to everybody. When they call, I give. And do you know what? When I need something from them two years later, three years later, I call them, they are there for me.

In prison, I fell in love with my country. I had loved her before then, but like most young people, my affection was little more than a simple appreciation for the comforts and privileges most Americans enjoyed and took for granted. It wasn’t until I had lost America for a time that I realized how much I loved her.

In politics a capable ruler must be guided by circumstances, conjectures and conjunctions.

I’ve been in the Labour Party all my life. I am a socialist. I am determined to see a fairer and more equal society.

The first [task of the Pentagon] is to preserve an international system in which what are called American interests – which primarily means business interests, can flourish.

Terrorists are always a threat to someone. If we’ll be scared of them, it means they have won.

The leaders of the world’s largest economies agreed during the November 2008 G20 summit not to create barriers hindering global trade and capital flows. Russia shares these principles.

We have a tax-raising power in Scotland but not in English regions. I want genuine regional taxation powers [in England].

As the Cold War came to a definitive end, the Bush Administration created a Center for Defense Trade to stimulate arms sales while proposing government guarantees of up to $1 billion in loans for purchase of US arms.

When I hear people say, ‘you run,’ it’s part of the problem. We still didn’t get ‘yes we can’ right. It’s not ‘yes you can,’ it’s ‘yes we can.’ And until we get that right, it doesn’t matter who runs.

Gulf Lesson One is the value of airpower.

We do not want a single foot of foreign territory; but of our territory we shall not surrender a single inch to anyone.

I think we should not control the Internet.

My wife is Mexican and my constituency is very, very multicultural.