Secrecy is the beginning of tyranny.
In the end, the only people who fail are those who do not try.
We're the curator for the African-American experience for the past, present and future. That's my job.
The main thing I say on war is that we need to obey the law and formally declare war.
I don't really like the term 'honest.'
There are very few profound sayings in the world.
No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?
We believe that health care is a right, not a privilege.
Enough shovels of earth – a mountain. Enough pails of water – a river.
It is not revealed in any other intercept.
I was never really a big presence in the home.
The melting point of sulfur is 247.3 °F (119.6 °C) and the boiling point is 832.3 °F (444.6 °C).
Success is often the result of taking a misstep in the right direction.
The Catholic Church's teachings are authoritative. There is a moral absolute on abortion - that it is wrong.
A good lawyer knows how to shut up when he's won his case.
Below the navel there is neither religion nor truth.
A clear conscience laughs at false accusations.
The winner has many friends, the loser has good friends.
A fool's tongue is long enough to cut his own throat.
When the sky falls we'll all catch larks.
Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.
He that is warm thinks all so.
If you would shoot a general, shoot his horse first.
With money, a dragon - without it, a worm.
Silence was never written down.
Silence is the voice of complicity.
Do not rejoice at my grief, for when mine is old yours will be new.
If the mountain won't come to mohammed, mohammed must go to the mountain.
Before telling secrets on the road, look in the bushes.
The eye that sees all things else, sees not itself.