"All stealing is comparative. If you come..." - Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Power educates the potentate.”

“A person seldom falls sick but the bystanders are animated with a faint hope that he will die.”

“The intelligent have a right over the ignorant; namely, the right of instructing them.”

“I have said repeatedly that I intend to close Guantanamo, and I will follow through on that. I have said repeatedly that America doesn't torture. And I'm gonna make sure that we don't torture. Those are part and parcel of an effort to regain America's moral stature in the world.”

“There are few things easier than to live badly and die well.”

“The rogue has everywhere the advantage.”

“I try to very hard to avoid a situation where I would be eating cat or dog; I've managed to gracefully avoid that. It's hypocritical of me and an arbitrary line, but one that I have managed to avoid crossing.”

“All expression of truth does at length take this deep ethical form.”

“There can be no final truth in ethics any more than in physics, until the last man has had his experience and said his say.”