Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear.

Work relieves us from three great evils, boredom, vice, and want.

Proverb

I love classical music and often listen to symphonies or opera in the morning.

William Mapother

Art lies by its own artifice.

Ovid

Hard work without talent is a shame, but talent without hard work is a tragedy.

Robert Half

Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Benjamin Franklin

The importance that our society attaches to sport is incredible. After all, is football a game or a religion? The people of this country have allowed sports to get completely out of hand.

Howard Cosell

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Anatole France

Wealth is a tool of freedom, but the pursuit of wealth is the way to slavery.

Frank Herbert

The pillars of truth and the pillars of freedom - they are the pillars of society.

Henrik Ibsen

Thought is the labour of the intellect, reverie is its pleasure.

Victor Hugo

One cannot spend one's time in being modern when there are so many more important things to be.

Wallace Stevens

There is no such thing as the Queen's English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

Mark Twain