The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

When one man says, “No, I won’t,” Rome begins to fear.

The only interesting thing that can happen in a Swiss bedroom is suffocation by feather mattress.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular gift in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

The only kind of love worth having is the kind that goes on living and laughing and fighting and loving.

Then there was this freedom the little guys were always getting killed for. Was it freedom from another country? Freedom from work or disease or death? Freedom from your mother-in-law? Please mister give us a bill of sale on this freedom before we go out and get killed. Give us a bill of sale drawn up plainly in advance what we're getting killed for... so we can be sure after we've won your war that we've got the same kind of freedom we bargained for.

The blacklist was a time of evil...no one on either side who survived it came through untouched by evil...[Looking] back on this time...it will do no good to search for villains or heroes or saints or devils because there were none; there were only victims.