To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
The central conservative truth is that it is culture, not politics, that determines the success of a society. The central liberal truth is that politics can change a culture and save it from itself.
The amount of violations of human rights in a country is always an inverse function of the amount of complaints about human rights violations heard from there. The greater the number of complaints being aired, the better protected are human rights in that country.
Pandaemonium was inhabited by creatures quite convinced that the great Satan had their best interests at heart. Poor little devils.
No one is innocent after the experience of governing. But not everyone is guilty.
Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion, but not their own facts.
Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own set of facts.
