You know what's interesting about Washington? It's the kind of place where second-guessing has become second nature.
The keener the want the lustier the growth.
What is fanaticism today is the fashionable creed tomorrow, and trite as the multiplication table a week after.
Exigencies create the necessary ability to meet and conquer them.
Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
Our agitation, you know, helps keep yours alive in the rank and file.
Brains and character rule the world. The most distinguished Frenchman of the last century said: Men succeed less by their talents than their character. There were scores of men a hundred years ago who had more intellect than Washington. He outlives and overrides them all by the influence of his character.
Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness.
Nonviolence means avoiding not only external physical violence but also internal violence of spirit. You not only refuse to shoot a man, but you refuse to hate him.
If you don't have the good fortune to work a lot then you take any job you get offered, whether it's a good job, fun job, a bad job, horrible job, whatever, you just take what you need to take. But I'm lucky in that - at the moment anyway and hopefully forever, but who knows - I get the chance to pick jobs for the kick of it and the fun.
You never want an Australian with his back against the wall. You put any 12 blokes together and you'll get a job done. Whether it's getting a bogged four-wheel-drive off the beach or standing in front of a cricket wicket and making sure we're in a dominant position. It's the same dog, different leg action, so to speak.