If you must break the law do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it.

In a republic this rule ought to be observed: that the majority should not have the predominant power.

Perhaps one of the only positive pieces of advice that I was ever given was that supplied by an old courtier who observed: Only two rules really count. Never miss an opportunity to relieve yourself never miss a chance to sit down and rest your feet.

I first came to think about media and politics in the late 1960s having observed some distortions up close but since then I wouldn't say that my personal experience has remained an important motive for my writing about media.

The more you observe politics the more you've got to admit that each party is worse than the other.

If the United States of America or Britain is having elections they don't ask for observers from Africa or from Asia. But when we have elections they want observers.

It is to be observed that every case of war averted is a gain in general for it helps to form a habit of peace and community habits long continued become standards of conduct.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

The scientific observer of Nature is a kind of mystic seeker in the act of prayer.

There is a very remarkable inclination in human nature to bestow on external objects the same emotions which it observes in itself and to find every where those ideas which are most present to it.