I went to London because, for me, it was the home of literature. I went there because of Dickens and Shakespeare.
Between 1980 and 1990, the number of countries that were classified as 'free' or 'mostly free' increased by about 50%.
My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.
You don't get gushers of revenue by raising tax rates. You get it through expansion.
I don't know how you define 'neoconservatism,' but I think it's associated with trying to spread open political systems and democracy.
The minute you start talking about what you're going to do if you lose, you have lost.
He who walks in the middle of the road gets hit from both sides.
I don't know how you do it [working at office]; I would just get up and walk out. That's what I did for pretty much every job I've ever had.
If one wanted to crush and destroy a man entirely, to mete out to him the most terrible punishment, all one would have to do would be to make him do work that was completely and utterly devoid of usefulness and meaning.
He that discovers himself, till he hath made himself master of his desires, lays himself open to his own ruin, and makes himself prisoner to his own tongue.
Feel indebted. Feel grateful. Then abundance grows.