Edmund Burke

By gnawing through a dike, even a rat may drown a nation.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

The Constitution of the United States allows us to change; I don't have a problem with that.

To this wonderful page in our country's history another more glorious still will be added, and the slave shall show at last to his free brothers a sharpened sword forged from the links of his fetters.

What makes Shakespeare eternal is his grasp of psychology. He knew how to nail stuff about us as human beings.