Baltasar Gracian

Never open the door to a lesser evil, for other and greater ones invariably slink in after it.

Little said is soon amended. There is always time to add a word, never to withdraw one.

He that has satisfied his thirst turns his back on the well.

I really think the most important thing I do is to protect the dignity and the integrity of the Office of the Surgeon General.

The United States have fulfilled in good faith all their treaty stipulations with the Indian tribes, and have in every other instance insisted upon a like performance of their obligations.

Terrorists are not 100 feet tall. Nor do they deserve the abject fear they seek to instill.