No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

I would tell myself that I was about to address the largest mass assembly of idiots ever gathered in the history of mankind.

No one can understand history without continually relating the long periods which are constantly mentioned to the experiences of our own short lives.

There is not much collective security in a flock of sheep on the way to the butcher.

It is hard, if not impossible, to snub a beautiful woman - they remain beautiful and the snub recoils.

Where there is a great deal of free speech there is always a certain amount of foolish speech.

We are weakened and we are tired, but we are not done yet.