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The philosopher says--I am, and the church scouts his philosophy. She answers:--No! you are NOT, you have no existence of your own. You were and are and ever will be only a part of the supreme I AM, of which the church is the emblem.

Politics, as a practice, whatever its professions, had always been the systematic organization of hatreds.

Power when wielded by abnormal energy is the most serious of facts.

Of all the days that's in the week I dearly love but one day And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday.

The reason the story runs so much with the little girls are the actual heroes in the warfare is because under most circumstances women are braver than men ..

There is no rule more invariable than that we are paid for our suspicions by finding what we suspect.

I am perhaps more proud of having helped to redeem the character of the cave-man than of any other single achievement of mine in the field of anthropology.

Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favor.

His designs were strictly honorable, as the phrase is; that is, to rob a lady of her fortune by way of marriage.

Reading musses up my mind.

Laissez faire (in its full true meaning) opens the way to the realization of the noble dreams of socialism.

Fear is the father of courage and the mother of safety.

He declined to point out 'what appear to us as defects', on the grounds that 'most of them will be obvious' and he had no wish 'to feed the malevolence of little or lazy critics'.1

To be 'subderisorious' consists of 'scoffing or ridiculing with tenderness and delicacy'—at the expense of an amatorculist, for instance.

A 'rant' consists of 'high sounding language unsupported by dignity of thought'.

A 'misdemeanour' is 'something less than an atrocious crime'. An 'uxorious' man is 'infected with connubial dotage'.

The historian, essentially, wants more documents than he can really use; the dramatist only wants more liberties than he can really take.

Don't underestimate the value of irony—it is extremely valuable.

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United States would become the indispensable defender of the order Europe designed.

ALL TWELVE POSTWAR presidents have passionately affirmed an exceptional role for America in the world.

Harold Macmillan, then Chancellor of the Exchequer, told Ambassador Robert Murphy, a Dulles emissary, that, if Great Britain did not confront Nasser now, "Britain would become another Netherlands.

Who ever heard, indeed, of an autobiography that was not (interesting)? I can recall none in all the literature of the world

In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican.