"Every man has a bag hanging before..." - Quote by William Shakespeare

“You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.”

“O gentlemen, the time of life is short!To spend that shortness basely were too long,If life did ride upon a dial's point,Still ending at the arrival of an hour.”

“Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.”

“In our own case we accept excuses too easily; in other people's, we do not accept them easily enough.”

“Why should [Uncle Sam] send 20 billion dollars down there [South America], which is going to go down the drain every time you have a racial in - incident in this country?”

“The more I accuse myself, the more right I have to judge you. Even better, I make you judge yourself, which comforts me the more.”

“Smart leaders believe only half of what theyhear. Discerning leaders know which haveto believe.”

“The firmness with which the (American) people have withstood the... abuses of the press, the discernment they have manifested between truth and falsehood, show that they may safely be trusted to hear everything true and false and to form a correct judgment between them.”

“Men blaspheme what they do not know.”