All that hoops are good for is to clean dirty shoes and keep fellows at a distance.
Most people are as happy as they want to be.
It is to deny, what the history of the world tells us is true, to suppose that men of ambition and talents will not continue to spring up amongst us. And, when they do, they will as naturally seek the gratification of their ruling passion, as others have so done before them.
You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today.
Cling to liberty and right; battle fro them; leed for them; die for them, if need be; and have confidence in God.
Nations do not die from invasion; they die from internal rottenness.
Reduce the supply of black labor by colonizing the black laborer out of the country, and by precisely so much you increase the demand for and wages of white labor.
People are always surprised at what a nice guy I am.
Writers write about what obsesses them. You draw those cards. I lost my mother when I was 14. My daughter died at the age of 6. I lost my faith as a Catholic. When I'm writing, the darkness is always there. I go where the pain is.
It is probably true that the economic benefits of being in the EU are a net positive to the UK, but a large number of people do not share in these benefits and the result is increasing inequality.
I see a schoolboy when I think of him, With face and nose pressed to a sweet-shop window.