"The past does not repeat itself, but..." - Quote by Mark Twain

“When one's character begins to fall under suspicion and disfavor, how swift, then, is the work of disintegration and destruction.”

“The fact is, the king was a good deal more than a king, he was a man; and when a man is a man, you can't knock it out of him.”

“If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won't. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterwards act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your better judgment.”

“Ronald Reagan won the Cold War without firing a shot.”

“I believe that the civilization India evolved is not to be beaten in the world. Nothing can equal the seeds sown by our ancestors, Rome went, Greece shared the same fate; the might of the Pharaohs was broken; Japan has become Westernized; of China nothing can be said; but India is still, somehow or other, sound at the foundation.”

“The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.”

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses the past and is dead for the future.”

“Most people, probably, are in doubt about certain matters ascribed to their past. They may have seen them, may have said them, done them, or they may only have dreamed or imagined they did so.”

“How you see your future is much more important that what has happened in your past.”