I never sue journalists. I employ journalists. I employ too many of them. I don't sue journalists.
Theirs is the present who can praise the past.
When misfortunes happen to such as dissent from us in matters of religion, we call them judgments; when to those of our own sect, we call them trials; when to persons neither way distinguished, we are content to attribute them to the settled course of things.
A liar begins with making falsehood appear like truth, and ends with making truth itself appear like falsehood.
The proper means of increasing the love we bear our native country is to reside some time in a foreign one.
Virtues, like essences, lose their fragrance when exposed.
Deference is the most complicate, the most indirect, and the most elegant of all compliments.
I don't care what you Yanks say, cheese should not whiz.
There's just no substitute for the truth.
We chart delusions through collective agreement.
The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity.