I choose a block of marble and chop off whatever I don't need.
I should hate to think that the Senate was as tired of me at the beginning of my service as I am of the Senate at the end.
How majestic is naturalness. I have never met a man whom I really considered a great man who was not always natural and simple. Affectation is inevitably the mark of one not sure of himself.
American diplomacy is easy on the brain but hell on the feet.
Hope is a willing slave; despair is free.
Mediocrity requires aloofness to preserve its dignity.
Tis not the fairest form that holds The mildest, purest soul within; 'Tis not the richest plant that holds The sweetest fragrance in.
What is a kiss? Alacke! at worst, A single Dropp to quenche a Thirst, Tho' oft it prooves, in happie Hour, The first swete Dropp of our long Showre.
If you want something done, ask a busy person.
Whatever you truly conceive of in the mind, is possible.
I think most of us secretly know – and those of us at the radical middle are inclined to say – that without such concepts as duty and honor and service, no civilization can endure. . . . I suspect most Americans would respond positively to a [draft] if it gives us some choice in how to exercise that duty and service. . . . Exactly the kind of choice my generation did not have during the Vietnam War.