“One man and a dozen fools would govern better than one man alone.”

Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it.

We have a great objective – the light on the hill – which we aim to reach by working for the betterment of mankind not only here but anywhere we may give a helping hand. If it were not for that, the Labour movement would not be worth fighting for.

The job of the evangelist is never easy.

It’s no good crying over spilt milk; all we can do is bail up another cow

A wave of legislation, introduced in more than two dozen states, would allow people to discriminate against their neighbors.

Every faction conditions its members to think and act a certain way. And most people do it. For most people, it’s not hard to learn, to find a pattern of thought that works and stay that way. But our minds move in a dozen different directions.

There are dozens of young poets and fictioneers most of them a little insane in the tradition of James Joyce, who, however insane they may be, have refused to be genteel and traditional and dull.

Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by.

I had been playing for a while, and I asked Louisville Slugger to send me a dozen flame treated bats. But when I got it, I realized they had sent me a box of ashes.

I write early in the morning, usually after reading portions of at least half a dozen newspapers on the web.

So, half a dozen of us tried – not all of us in history – and we all eventually got in. So, to that extent, it [The History Boys] comes out of my own experience.

Of course there are dozens of meditation techniques, but it all comes down to this – just let it all be. Step over here where it is cool, out of the battle. Why not give it a try?