Conservatism is the policy of make no change and consult your grandmother when in doubt.

Every people has a right to choose the sovereignty under which they shall live.

The only thing that saves the world is the little handful of disinterested men that are in it.

That a peasant may become king does not render the kingdom democratic.

A man is not as big as his belief in himself; he is as big as the number of persons who believe in him.

The city of Washington is in some respects self-contained, and it is easy there to forget what the rest of the United States is thinking about. I count it a fortunate circumstance that almost all the windows of the White House and its offices open upon unoccupied spaces that stretch to the banks of the Potomacand that as I sit there I can constantly forget Washington and remember the United States.

Music says nothing to the reason: it is a kind of closely structured nonsense.