Mark Twain

Between us, we cover all knowledge; he knows all that can be known and I know the rest.

There is no such thing as the Queen’s English. The property has gone into the hands of a joint stock company and we own the bulk of the shares!

The difference between the right word and the almost right word is the difference between lightning and a lightning bug.

To cease smoking is the easiest thing I ever did; I ought to know because I’ve done it a thousand times.

What, sir, would the people of the earth be without woman? They would be scarce, sir, almighty scarce.

Words are only painted fire; a look is the fire itself.

People who call themselves supporters of Israel are actually supporters of its moral degeneration and ultimate destruction.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

The glory of being a carrier pilot has certainly worn off.

If the human race wishes to have a prolonged and indefinite period of material prosperity, they have only got to behave in a peaceful and helpful way toward one another

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying.

We need a president with tremendous intelligence, smarts, cunning, strength and stamina.

It is quite possible-overwhelmingly probable, one might guess-that we will always learn more about human life and personality from novels than from scientific psychology

Demographics aren’t destiny. Our culture isn’t the work of one race or religion. To suggest otherwise is to contradict our ideals and to doubt their power.

WE are good, and THEY are evil. That useful principle trumps virtually any argument. Analysis of commentary and much of scholarship reveals that its roots commonly lie in that crucial principle, which is not argued but asserted.

Would I do business with Putin? Sure. And I’d challenge him on human rights in Russia, challenge him on these issues and challenge him on that whole basis of that relationship.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

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

It’s very important for institutions of concentrated power to keep people alone and isolated: that way they’re ineffective, they can’t defend themselves against indoctrination, they can’t even figure out what they think.

I would say to the House, as I said to those who have joined this Government: I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word: It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival.

Labour is the voice that says to the many, at home and abroad: ‘You don’t have to take what you’re given. You may be born poor but you don’t have to stay poor. You don’t have to live without power and without hope.