"Masculine republics give way to feminine democracies,..." - Quote by Aristotle

“Great and frequent reverses can crush and mar our bliss both by the pain they cause and by the hindrance they offer to many activities. Yet nevertheless even in adversity nobility shines through, when a man endures repeated and severe misfortune with patience, not owing to insensibility but from generosity and greatness of soul.”

“Thus every action must be due to one or other of seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reasoning, anger, or appetite.”

“Man is the metre of all things, the hand is the instrument of instruments, and the mind is the form of forms.”

“[Khrushchev] should get a one-ton medal.”

“The greatest threat to the state is not faction but distraction”

“If you could drink dreams like the Irish streams Then the world would be high as the mountain of morn In the Pool they told us the story How the English divided the land.”

“To defend Western Europe we have to let the Pentagon buy all these tanks and guns and things, and the Pentagon is unable to buy any object that that costs less than a condominium in Vail. If the Pentagon needs, say, fruit, it will argue that it must have fruit that can withstand the rigors of combat conditions, and it will wind up purchasing the FX-700 Seedless Tactical Grape, which will cost $160,000 per bunch, and will have an 83 percent failure rate.”

“We don't seem to be able to check crime, so why not legalize it and then tax it out of business?”

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president.”