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The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.

...there is no glory in battle worth the blood it costs.

The profoundest truth of war is that the issue of battle is usually decided in the minds of the opposing commanders, not in the bodies of their men.

I love deadlines. I especially like the whooshing sound they make as they go flying by.

We trained hard - but it seemed that every time we were beginning to form up into teams we were reorganized. I was to learn later in life that we tend to meet any new situation by reorganizing, and what a wonderful method it can be for creating the illusion of progress while actually producing confusion, inefficiency, and demoralization.

I think there are only three things America will be known for 2,000 years from now when they study this civilization: the Constitution, jazz music, and baseball.

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Capitalism without bankruptcy is like Christianity without hell.

A good cause can become bad if we fight for it with means that are indiscriminately murderous. A bad cause can become good if enough people fight for it in a spirit of comradeship and self-sacrifice. In the end it is how you fight, as much as why you fight, that makes your cause good or bad.

Oh! Duty is an icy shadow. It will freeze you. It cannot fill the heart's sanctuary.

What is possible is our highest duty.

There is nothing an economist should fear so much as applause.

It is possible to lead astray an entire generation, to strike it blind, to drive it insane, to direct it towards a false goal. Napoleon proved this.

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.

The thing I enjoyed most were visits from children. They did not want public office.

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation.

The people who cast the votes don't decide an election, the people who count the votes do.

He has been called a mediocre man; but this is unwarranted flattery. He was a politician of monumental littleness.