Imagination is the one weapon in the war against reality.

Close up his eyes and draw the curtain close; And let us all to meditation. -King Henry VI. Part II. Act iii. Sc. 3.

I was really too honest a man to be a politician and live.

Heav'n has no rage, like love to hatred turn'd. Hell a fury, like a woman scorn'd.

Basic research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.

To return to the subject.

Paradoxically though it may seem, it is none the less true that life imitates art far more than art imitates life.

A good friend see the first tear, catches the second and stops the third.

Write on my gravestone: "Infidel, Traitor." --infidel to every church that compromises with wrong; traitor to every government that oppresses the people.

It is difficult to discern a serious threat to religious liberty from a room of silent, thoughtful schoolchildren.

Mediocrity obtains more with application than superiority without it.

Poetry is life distilled.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

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States are great engines moving slowly.

The leader seeks to communicate his vision to his followers. He captures their attention with his optimistic intuition of possible solutions to their needs. He influences them by the dynamism of his faith. He demonstrates confidence that the challenge can be met, the need resolved, the crisis overcome.

Our federal Union: it must be preserved.

O God! that one might read the book of fate, And see the revolution of the times Make mountains level. and the continent, Weary of solid firmness, melt itself Into the sea!

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Kindly words do not enter so deeply into men as a reputation for kindness.