Samuel Johnson

Poetry is the art of uniting pleasure with truth.

No government power can be abused long. Mankind will not bear it. There is a remedy in human nature against tyranny, that will keep us safe under every form of government.

Truth, Sir, is a cow which will yield such people no more milk, and so they are gone to milk the bull.

Players, Sir! I look on them as no better than creatures set upon tables and joint stools to make faces and produce laughter, like dancing dogs.

The drama’s laws, the drama’s patrons give, for we that live to please, must please to live.

Nothing is more common than mutual dislike, where mutual approbation is particularly expected.

Just talk to me as a father – not what the Constitution says. What do you feel?

My first four jobs were minimum wage or close to it.

Anarcho-syndicalism took for granted that working people ought to control their own work, its conditions, that they ought to control the enterprises in which they work, along with communities, so they should be associated with one another in free associations…

I would like to draw your attention to the fact that in Russia, unlike in one third of the world’s countries, being gay is not a crime.

We live in a democracy and the Government has to be responsive to Parliament.

This is absolutely bizarre that we continue to subsidize highways beyond the gasoline tax, airlines, and we don’t subsidize, we don’t want to subsidize a national rail system that has environmental impact.

I would have set out very quickly the relationship with Europe.

The U.S. government played a significant role [in the 1965 Indonesian genocide] by supplying the names of thousands of Communist Party leaders to the Indonesian army, which hunted down the leftists and killed them, former U.S. diplomats say…

I prefer to be in the grave in Colombia than in a jail cell in the United States.

The chief evil is unlimited government…nobody is qualified to wield unlimited power.

The internet could be a very positive step towards education, organisation and participation in a meaningful society.

The Russian people have their own cultural code, their own tradition.

I discovered, for the first time but not the last, that politicians don’t care too much what things cost. It’s not their money.

Hitlers come and go, but Germany and the German people remain.

I’m using the term “First Spouse” instead of First Lady because I believe we will have a woman president.