The way to get things done is not to mind who gets the credit for doing them.

We are not to expect to be translated from despotism to liberty in a featherbed.

Thomas Jefferson

The science of politics is the one science that is deposited by the streams of history, like the grains of gold in the sand of a river and the knowledge of the past, the record of truths revealed by experience, is eminently practical, as an instrument of action and a power that goes to making the future.

Lord Acton

Only in men's imagination does every truth find an effective and undeniable existence. Imagination, not invention, is the supreme master of art as of life.

Joseph Conrad

I think I made good movies.

Jane Campion

How wicked it would be, if we could, to call the dead back! She said not to me but to the chaplain, 'I am at peace with God.' She smiled, but not at me. Poi si torno all' eterna fontana.

C.S. Lewis

'Tis skill, not strength, that governs a ship.

Thomas Fuller

Yes, I do agree we need health care reform however, this bill badly misses the mark. Congress can and must do better for the American people.

John Mica

Go bow thy head in gentle spite, Thou lily white, For she who spies thee waving here, With thee in beauty can compare As day with night.

James Matthews Legaré

God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only choice is how.

Henry Ward Beecher

The maxim of the British people is Business as usual.

Sir Winston Churchill

Formerly, when religion was strong and science weak, men mistook magic for medicine now, when science is strong and religion weak, men mistake medicine for magic.

Thomas Szasz

A lady's imagination is very rapid it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.

Jane Austen