Most of our pocket wisdom is conceived for the use of mediocre people to...
The truth that is suppressed by friends is the readiest weapon of the enemy.
You cannot run away from weakness you must some time fight it out or perish...
If a man loves the labour of his trade apart from any question of success or...
That man is a success who has lived well laughed often and loved much.
Politics is perhaps the only profession for which no preparation is thought...
I am in the habit of looking not so much to the nature of a gift as to the...
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in...
Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing...
My kid could get a bad X-ray and I could get a call from the doctor saying I...
What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A...
Europe is dying. That is one of the unsayable truths of our time. We are...
Most of what needs to be changed in the euro zone can be done without treaty...
Much can and must be done by governments but they cannot of themselves...
I don't want to clip on the armour every morning. I've seen some politicians...
Governments cannot make marriages or turn feckless individuals into...
They said it was impossible to touch the third rail of politics to take on public-sector unions and to reform a pension and health benefits system that was headed to bankruptcy. But with bipartisan leadership we saved taxpayers $132 billion dollars over 30 years and saved retirees their pensions. We did it.