Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

In general pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist he is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts nor is he a tactician nor is he a general nor is he a soldier. Other than that he's a great military man I want you to know that.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts nor is he a tactician nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

Our Generation has had no Great war no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

If there is not the war you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace no one would have known his name.

Great men unknown to their generation have their fame among the great who have preceded them and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life comedy.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949 and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.

This is a generation weaned on Watergate and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead there is a presumption that without relentless scrutiny the government will misbehave.

I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.

We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant if not the most momentous event of our generation.

The less government interferes with private pursuits the better for general prosperity.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

Just in general any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated because then they couldn't control them as easily.

Life in general has never been even close to fair so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

History in general only informs us of what bad government is.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

The instant formal government is abolished society begins to act. A general association takes place and common interest produces common security.

I've gone for each type: the rough guy the nerdy sweet lovable guy and the slick guy. I don't really have a type. Men in general are a good thing.