#y

'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman. ↗

— William Congreve

#education #enough #gentleman #little #pedantic

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#cannot #get #gets #needs #president

Watergate had become the center of the media's universe, and during the remaining year of my presidency the media tried to force everything else to revolve around it. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#become #center #during #else #everything

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#deduction #direct #inference #intercourse #learn

You must pursue this investigation of Watergate even if it leads to the president. I'm innocent. You've got to believe I'm innocent. If you don't, take my job. ↗

— Richard M. Nixon

#believe #even #got #i #innocent

Yes, there's such a thing as luck in trial law but it only comes at 3 o'clock in the morning. You'll still find me in the library looking for luck at 3 o'clock in the morning. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#comes #find #law #library #looking

A beautiful lady is an accident of nature. A beautiful old lady is a work of art. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#art #beautiful #lady #nature #old

Plus, teaching brings home to you very fast that you actually know nothing. I didn't realize that before. ↗

— Hugh Grant

#before #brings #fast #home #i

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. ↗

— Louis Nizer

#difficult #easy #fault #find #may

We prefer self-government with danger to servitude in tranquility. ↗

— Kwame Nkrumah

#prefer #self-government #servitude #tranquility