William Ewart Gladstone

Books are delightful society. If you go into a room and find it full of books – even without taking them from the shelves they seem to speak to you, to bid you welcome.

If you are cold, tea will warm you; if you are too heated, it will cool you; If you are depressed, it will cheer you; If you are excited, it will calm you.

If you weren’t such a great man, you’d be a terrible bore.

Failure is success if we learn from it.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won’t have to haunt for happiness

Justice delayed is justice denied.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

Despite the ethnic diversity within each nation, the social fabric of the region by and large is one.

The Institute of Defense Analysis…has been working on crowd control, which means control of blacks, students, peace demonstrators. And the technology for doing this is extremely efficacious and will only improve. So that’s one reason for nonviolence.

The GI bill provided free education to huge numbers of people – white men overwhelmingly – who would probably never have gone to college, a great benefit to them personally and to the whole society.

[on Jeremy Cobyn] It is a different type of Labour Party. Can it be taken back? I don’t know

[on Trump] But there are some pretty stable elements of his ideology, if you can even grant him that concept. One of them is: “Climate change is not taking place.” As he puts it: “Forget it.” And that’s almost a death knell for the species – not tomorrow, but the decisions we take now are going to affect things in a couple of decades, and in a couple of generations it could be catastrophic.

I always touch people, because I know that there’s a level of anxiety, people are teary or they’re nervous, and I just try to physically hold them and bring them down and say: ‘We’re here. I’m just Michelle.’

The democratic choice Russian people made in the early 90’s is final.

As long as people are marginalized and distracted [they] have no way to organize or articulate their sentiments, or even know that others have these sentiments. People assume that they are the only people with a crazy idea in their heads.

Nothing will bring American sympathy along with us so much as American blood shed in the field.

But free capital mobility is a high priority for the business world: it increases profit and also provides a powerful weapon to undermine labor organizing by threat of job transfer-technically illegal, but highly effective…

I am not worried about the deficit. It is big enough to take care of itself.

We believe that Lebanon has been the first real experience for all the Arabs.

Economic control…is the control of the means for all our ends. And whoever has control of the means must also determine which ends are to be served.

…there is definitely a sector of the population that considers themselves threatened by big forces, ranging from the Federal Reserve to the Council on Foreign Relations to big government to who knows what and are calling for guns to protect themselves.