We spend billions of pounds on welfare, yet millions are trapped on welfare. It's not worth their while going into work.
Perfect Freedom is reserved for the man who lives by his own work, and in that work does what he wants to do.
The romantic artist expects people to ask, 'What has he got to say?' The classical artist expects them to ask, 'How does he say it?
Like other revolutionaries I can thank God for the reactionaries. They clarify the issue.
The history of thought, and therefore all history, is the re-enactment of past thought in the historian's own mind.
History is for human self-knowledge. Knowing yourself means knowing, first, what it is to be a person; secondly, knowing what it is to be the kind of person you are; and thirdly, knowing what it is to be the person you are and nobody else is. Knowing yourself means knowing what you can do; and since nobody knows what they can do until they try, the only clue to what man can do is what man has done. The value of history, then, is that it teaches us what man has done and thus what man is.
A man ceases to be a beginner in any given science and becomes a master in that science when he has learned that. . . he is going to be a beginner all his life.
Inside the book between the lines, was a place to rest and absorb the magic
I don't take anything for granted. I've been given extraordinary opportunities, I've also fought for extraordinary opportunities. So I don't believe you're ever just there in this golden moment. You probably always have to remind people that you're there, that you have something to offer, maybe something beyond what they could imagine for you.
I'm real clear, you know? There's no fogginess.
We must have Sunni-Arabs involved in this coalition [against ISIS]. We must commit leadership, strength, support and resolve.