A platitude is simply a truth repeated till people get tired of hearing it.
Once I leave, I leave. I am not going to speak to the man on the bridge, and I am not going to spit on the deck.
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
Dictatorship is like a giant beech-tree - very magnificent to look at in its prime, but nothing grows underneath it.
I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
The world was never more unsafe for democracy then it is today.