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Mankind must put an end to war, or war will put an end to mankind.

The tendency of democracies is, in all things, to mediocrity.

We would like to live as we once lived, but history will not permit it.

History is a relentless master. It has no present, only the past rushing into the future. To try to hold fast is to be swept aside.

This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country.

As President Nixon says, presidents can do almost anything, and President Nixon has done many things that nobody would have thought of doing.

Hell hath no fury like a bureaucrat scorned.

This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.

I slept, and dreamed that life was beauty; I woke, and found that life was Duty.

A new poll showed that if the election was held today, people would be confused because it is normally held in November.

A wise man learns more from his enemies than a fool from his friends.

What a delightful thing is the conversation of specialists! One understands absolutely nothing and it's charming.

Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Justice is incidental to law and order.

It profits a man nothing to give his soul for the whole world... but for Wales!

...if we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

...the argument for liberty is not an argument against organization, which is one of the most powerful tools human reason can employ, but an argument against all exclusive, privileged, monopolistic organization, against the use of coercion to prevent others from doing better.

The framers gave us the Second Amendment not so we could go deer or duck hunting but to give us a modicum of protection against congressional tyranny.

...whenever it is necessary that one of several conflicting opinions should prevail and when one would have to be made to prevail by force if need be, it is less wasteful to determine which has the stronger support by counting numbers than by fighting. Democracy is the only method of peaceful change that man has yet been discovered.

The conception that government should be guided by majority opinion makes sense only if that opinion is independent of government. The ideal of democracy rests on the belief that the view which will direct government emerges from an independent and spontaneous process. It requires, therefore, the existence of a large sphere independent of majority control in which the opinions of the individuals are formed.