Francis Bacon

Houses are built to live in, and not to look on: therefore let use be preferred before uniformity.

Fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and solid.

The job of the artist is always to deepen the mystery.

Nothing does more hurt in a state than that cunning men pass for wise.

The best armor is to keep out of gunshot.

Nuptial love makes mankind; friendly love perfects it; but wanton love corrupts and debases it.

Libertarian socialism, furthermore, does not limit its aims to democratic control by producers over production, but seeks to abolish all forms of domination and hierarchy in every aspect of social and personal life, an unending struggle…

United we stand, divided we fall is one of the oldest and truest slogans of the Labour movement.

It seems that the most important thing about Reagan was his anti-Communism and his reputation as a hawk who saw the Soviet Union as an ‘evil empire.’

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

There is no justification for the belief that, so long as power is conferred by democratic procedure, it cannot be arbitrary…it is not the source but the limitation of power which prevents it from being arbitrary.

If we wish to preserve a free society, it is essential that we recognize that the desirability of a particular object is not sufficient justification for the use of coercion.

China is a great country with a great culture, populated by fascinating, industrious and talented people.

Secretary Powell and I agree on every single issue that has ever been before this administration except for those instances where Colin’s still learning.

On economic policy, in particular, the striking thing about the leadership contest was that every candidate other than Mr. Corbyn essentially supported the Conservative government’s austerity policies. … The Corbyn upset isn’t about a sudden left turn on the part of Labour supporters. It’s mainly about the strange, sad moral and intellectual collapse of Labour moderates.

It is difficult to say which is more menacing. But both of [points of war danger -Japan and Germany] exist and both are smoldering. In comparison with these two principal focal points of the war danger, the Italo-Ethiopian war represents an episode.

Our democracy, our constitutional framework is really a kind of software for harnessing the creativity and political imagination for all of our people. The American democratic system was an early political version of Napster.

Lincoln said you cannot be President without spending some item on your knees. I have repeated that and a bunch of Atheists got all over me. Wait a minute. Does that mean that you cannot be President if you are an Atheist? I say yea that does mean that.

If Stain was such a bad guy why do all these people attribute to him quotes he didn’t make or change his actual quotes just enough to make them seem bad? Seem bad rather than visionary.

It’s dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

With regards to big business, I spoke about this a few years ago at one of the public meetings with our business leaders. I warned them that this situation, which we see today, could develop. I warned them about this and recommended at the time that our business keeps its capital in Russia.