As a longtime former resident of 15 years in Washington, I wish that everybody would stay off the Mall with their political… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs,… — Robert Hooke Copy Share Image
More terrorists are given training and sanctuary in the United States than anywhere on earth. They include mass murderers, torturers, former and… — John Pilger Copy Share Image
If you believe our president, a former oil businessman, is going to end our addiction to oil, shame on all of us. — Dan Seals Copy Share Image
I am of the opinion that all who can should vote for the most intelligent, honest, and conscientious men eligible to office,… — Robert E. Lee Copy Share Image
President Obama became the first sitting president to visit a federal prison yesterday. Obama said it was a good chance to talk… — Jimmy Fallon Copy Share Image
“Hardly a pure science, history is closer to animal husbandry that it is to mathematics in that it involves selective breeding. The… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
I can recall no parallel in history where a great nation recently at war has so distinguished its former enemy commander. — Douglas MacArthur Copy Share Image
There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime, which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
We distinguish the excellent man from the common man by saying that the former is the one who makes great demands on… — Jose Ortega y Gasset Copy Share Image
If our legislature does not heartily push our University [of Virginia] we must send our children for education to Kentucky [Transylvania College]… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The colleges of Edinburgh and Geneva as seminaries of science, are considered as the two eyes of Europe. While Great Britain and… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The key to good decision making is not knowledge. It is understanding. We are swimming in the former. We are desperately lacking… — Malcolm Gladwell Copy Share Image
Just as the sand-dunes, heaped one upon another, hide each the first, so in life the former deeds are quickly hidden by… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
In the trial of Saddam Hussein on Tuesday, witnesses emotionally testified about the abuse the former dictator inflicted on them. Afterward, a… — Amy Poehler Copy Share Image
I mean the former presidents are going to be there [on Donald Trump inauguration]. The Clintons are going to be there. Jimmy… — Jason Chaffetz Copy Share Image
New York City does not hold our former selves against us. Perhaps we can extend the same courtesy. — Colson Whitehead Copy Share Image
As I stood in the booth chatting to people, it occurred to me that besides good racing, the Crew Classic provided an… — Brad Alan Lewis Copy Share Image
Anybody who imagines that an election can be won under these circumstances by banging on about William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright is… — David Frum Copy Share Image
Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly… — George Washington Copy Share Image
There were several Battles between the Yorkists and the Lancastrians, in which the former (as they ought) usually won. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Expulsion and genocide, though both are international offenses, must remain distinct; the former is an offense against fellow-nations, whereas the latter is… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
Woman is fine for her own satisfaction alone. No man will admire her the more, no woman will like her the better… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Of course, political leaders are much more ambitious than gangsters. The latter are content to take your money, whereas the former, besides… — Robert Higgs Copy Share Image
Is Europe a home for an alliance of civilizations or is it a Christian club? If the former is true, then Turkey… — Recep Tayyip Erdogan Copy Share Image
