The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Maybe, just once, someone will call me 'Sir' without adding, 'You're making a scene.'

That which can be asserted without evidence, can be dismissed without evidence.

Most ballet teachers in the United States are terrible. If they were in medicine, everyone would be poisoned.

Of puns it has been said that those who most dislike them are those who are least able to utter them.

To forbid us anything is to make us have a mind for it.

All the perplexities, confusion and distress in America arise, not from defects in their Constitution or Confederation, not from want of honor or virtue, so much as from the downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit and circulation.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

I could see that, if not actually disgruntled, he was far from being gruntled.

Patriotism is usually stronger than class hatred, and always stronger than internationalism.

In the United States today, we have more than our share of the nattering nabobs of negativism.

The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.

The paranoid is never entirely mistaken.

The last of human freedoms - the ability to chose one's attitude in a given set of circumstances.

The right of a nation to kill a tyrant in case of necessity can no more be doubted than to hang a robber, or kill a flea.

One's only rival is one's own potentialities. One's only failure is failing to live up to one's own possibilities. In this sense, every man can be a king, and must therefore be treated like a king.

All battles are fought by scared men who'd rather be some place else.

If you follow every dream, you might get lost.

Your personal nature seeks its paradise.

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