America's political system has evolved over the last 50 years in ways that have enhanced the power of business lobbies.

Facts are ventriloquists' dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.

Aldous Huxley

You should trust any man in his own art provided he is skilled in it.

Edward Coke

The president, just as any other American, deserves a legal defense against personal lawsuits not related to his office. But the costs of that defense should be borne by him and not the taxpayer.

Ben Nighthorse Campbell

No truth can be said to be seen as it is until it is seen in its relation to all other truths. In this relation only is it true.

Elizabeth Prentiss

Whoever seeks to set one race against another seeks to enslave all races.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

I was myself brought up with my brother, whose name was Matthias, for he was my own brother, by both father and mother and I made mighty proficiency in the improvements of my learning, and appeared to have both a great memory and understanding.

Flavius Josephus

History repeats, but science reverberates.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

Affliction comes to us all, not to make us sad, but sober; not to make us sorry, but to make us wise; not to make us despondent, but by its darkness to refresh us as the night refreshes the day; not to impoverish, but to enrich us.

Henry Ward Beecher

There are some people who have the quality of richness and joy in them and they communicate it to everything they touch. It is first of all a physical quality; then it is a quality of the spirit.

Thomas Wolfe

Parenthood remains the greatest single preserve of the amateur.

Alvin Toffler

In a war everybody always knows all about Switzerland, in peace times it is just Switzerland but in war time it is the only country that everybody has confidence in, everybody.

Gertrude Stein

Literature is the immortality of speech.

August Wilhelm Von Schlegel