The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Every time we tell anybody to cheer up, things might be worse, we run away for fear we might be asked to specify how.

Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.

Instead of being taught independence, energy, and enterprise, our youth today is taught to look for security.

When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were.

That was the way dean found me when he finally decided i was worth saving.