The man who is swimming against the stream knows the strength of it.

A man is free only when he lives in truth, and truth can be perceived only by the intellect.

Leo Tolstoy

World War I broke out largely because of an arms race, and World War II because of the lack of an arms race.

Herman Kahn

In a certain sense, and to a certain extent, he the president is the representative of the people. He is elected by them, as well as congress is. But can he, in the nature of things, know the wants of the people, as well as three hundred other men, coming from all the various localities of the nation? If so, where is the propriety of having a congress?

Abraham Lincoln

What the lion cannot manage to do the fox can.

Proverb

Between my head and my hand, there is always the face of death.

Francis Picabia

Never were abilities so much below mediocrity so well rewarded; no, not when Caligulas horse was made Consul.

John Randolph

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Francis Bacon

Those who stand for nothing fall for anything.

Alexander Hamilton, attributed,

To give pain is the tyranny; to make happy, the true empire of beauty.

Sir Richard Steele

I have never been able to look upon America as young and vital but rather as prematurely old, as a fruit which rotted before it had a chance to ripen.

Henry Miller

The best movies are simple.

Shia LaBeouf

Many people would sooner die than think In fact, they do so.

Bertrand Russell