Fawn M Brodie Famous Quotes
"Richard Nixon lied to gain love, to shore up his grandiose fantasies, to bolster his ever-wavering sense of identity. He lied in attack, hoping to win and always he lied, and this most aggressively, to deny that he lied."
"A passion for politics stems usually from an insatiable need, either for power, or for friendship and adulation, or a combination of both."
Fawn M Brodie Quotations
The first duty of a revolutionary is to get away with it.
Abbie Hoffman
"You can't deny laughter when it comes, it plops down in your favorite chair and stays as long as it wants."
Stephen King
This is a burden I shall bear for every day of the life that is left to me.
Richard Milhous Nixon
"If you want to touch the other shore badly enough, barring an impossible situation, you will. If your desire is diluted for any reason, you'll never make it."
Diana Nyad
Kennedy cooked the soup that Johnson had to eat.
Konrad Adenauer
"So, rather than appear foolish afterward, I renounce seeming clever now."
William of Baskerville
"What the world needs is not dogma but an attitude of scientific inquiry combined with a belief that the torture of millions is not desirable, whether inflicted by Stalin or by a Deity imagined in the likeness of the believer."
Bertrand Russell
"To all, to each, a fair good night, And pleasing dreams, and slumbers light."
Sir Walter Scott
"Nothing more clearly show how little God esteems his gift to men of wealth, money, position and other wordly goods, than the way he distributes these, and the sort of men who are most amply provided with them."
La Bruyere
"Nature, to be commanded, must be obeyed."
Francis Bacon