Perhaps it is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to provisions against danger real or pretended from abroad.

It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger real or pretended from abroad.

The loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger real or imagined from abroad.

The means of defense against foreign danger historically have become the instruments of tyranny at home.

The home to everyone is to him his castle and fortress as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose.

Time and time again history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.

We are a big country with lots of advantages and history. We are proud to be French. We have to call on patriotism at this time... to ask for an effort in the battle against debt.

The odds are always against you no matter what your previous history is. You have to overcome the tendency to relax.

I just read an 800-page history of the Scottish Enlightenment and honestly I may as well just start it again now because I cannot remember a single thing. I can barely remember where Scotland is.

Literature is the expression of a feeling of deprivation a recourse against a sense of something missing. But the contrary is also true: language is what makes us human. It is a recourse against the meaningless noise and silence of nature and history.