The Pause; that impressive silence, that eloquent silence, that geometrically progressive silence which often achieves a desired effect where no combination of words, however so felicitous, could accomplish it.

How do you tell a communist Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.

Ronald Reagan

I am not a member of the CIA or any other intelligence agency.

James R. Bath

Even peace may be purchased at too high a price.

Benjamin Franklin

Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic -- if it is pulled out I shall die.

Soren Kierkegaard

A man that seeks truth and loves it must be reckoned precious to any human society.

Epictetus

You're not supposed to interject feelings into science, but part of the reason it's so fascinating that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus is that it's so creepy that we're 8 percent (or more) fossilized virus.

Sam Kean

All abuse and violence are abominations against humanity!

Timothy Pina

Our country is now geared to an arms economy bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and an incessant propaganda of fear.

Douglas MacArthur

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

Bernard Baruch

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which way he will, it falls opposite to the sun; short at noon, long at eve. Did you never see it?

Henry David Thoreau

The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them. I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.

John Fitzgerald Kennedy

Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.

Sigmund Freud