My mother always told me that no matter how late it is, you take your makeup off. Take it off!
Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.
The demagogue is one who preaches doctrines he knows to be untrue to men he knows to be idiots.
The men the American people admire most extravagantly are the most daring liars; the men they detest most violently are those who try to tell them the truth.
People do not expect to find chastity in a whorehouse. Why, then, do they expect to find honesty and humanity in government, a congeries of institutions whose modus operandi consists of lying, cheating, stealing, and if need be, murdering those who resist?
. . . men of power are seldom protected from their own infirmities by the men subordinate to them -- not even in the sad circumstances of mental exhaustion.
That's important to me, to recommend books.
Whoever eats the Lamb outside this House is profane.
We don't survive without plants and animals because we rely on them, we rely on plants to put oxygen into the atmosphere, we rely on. . . fish and crops and cows to eat.