Henry David Thoreau

Men are born to succeed, not to fail.

We shall see but little way if we require to understand what we see. How few things can a man measure with the tape of his understanding! How many greater things might he be seeing in the meanwhile!

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

What sort of philosophers are we, who know absolutely nothing about the origin and destiny of cats?

Should not every apartment in which man dwells be lofty enough to create some obscurity overhead, where flickering shadows may play at evening about the rafters?

I think that there is nothing, not even crime, more opposed to poetry, to philosophy, ay, to life itself than this incessant business.

Democracy don’t rule the world, you better get that in your head; this world is ruled by violence, but I guess that’s better left unsaid.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

I thought being President would be easier than my old life.

It’s only terrorism if they do it to us. When we do much worse to them, it’s not terrorism.

I said on the Department of Justice, I would stay uninvolved. Now I may get involved at some point if it gets worse.

Stability of tax policy must be absolutely guaranteed for the next six years.

A society that does not recognize that each individual has values of his own which he is entitled to follow can have no respect for the dignity of the individual and cannot really know freedom.

It’s not a very big thing to say, ‘I made a mistake’ on the war, and typical of Hillary Clinton that she can’t.

Much research, including a widely quoted Rand Corporation study of 1994, has shown that prevention and treatment are considerably more cost-effective than the coercive [drug war] measures that receive the bulk of funding. Such nonpunitive measures are also of course far more humane.

GATT and NAFTA ought to be called “investor rights agreements,” not “free trade agreements.” One of their main purposes is to extend the ability of corporations to carry out market-distorting operations internally.

When one person dies, it’s a tragedy, but when a million people die, it’s a statistic.

I feel like everyone else in this country today. I am utterly devastated.

And in my own life, in my own small way, I’ve tried to give back to this country that has given me so much. That’s why I left a job at a law firm for a career in public service, working to empower young people to volunteer in their communities. Because I believe that each of us – no matter what our age or background or walk of life – each of us has something to contribute to the life of this nation.

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

Voters decide nothing. Vote counters decide everything!