Clinton Rossiter Quotes

#1. The final greatness of the presidency lies in the truth that it is not just an office of incredible power but a breeding ground of indestructible myth.

Clinton Rossiter

#2. Within a week I walked the streets of Tel-Aviv, I wandered around Budapest and found myself admiring the Architecture of Paris. That's the power of great literature.

Byron Ortiz

#3. No America without democracy, no democracy without politics no politics without parties, no parties without compromise and moderation.

Clinton Rossiter

#4. Those who really desire to attain an independence, have only set their minds upon it, and adopt the proper means, as they do in regard to any other object which they wish to accomplish, and the thing is easily done.

P.T. Barnum

#5. Sometimes I wish I was just a simple drunkard.

Steven Morrissey

#6. This is the highest miracle of genius, that things which are not should be as though they were, that the imaginations of one mind should become the personal recollections of another.

Thomas B. Macaulay

#7. Football teaches you hard work. It takes a lot of unspectacular preparation to have spectacular results in both business and football.

Roger Staubach

#8. Conservatism is the worship of dead revolutions.

Clinton Rossiter

#9. I ask every Communist individually to set an example, by deeds and without pretense, a real example worthy of a man and a Communist, in restoring order, starting normal life, in resuming work and production, and in laying the foundations of an ordered life.

Janos Kadar

#10. Dictatorship played a decisive role in the North's successful effort to maintain the Union by force of arms ... one man was the government of the United States ... Lincoln was a great dictator ... This great constitutional dictator was self appointed.

Clinton Rossiter

#11. There is no happiness without liberty, no liberty without self-government, no self-government without constitutionalism, no constitutionalism without morality
and none of these great goods without stability and order.

Clinton Rossiter

#12. In the end, the difference between Conservatism and Liberalism seems to be this: the Conservative thinks of liberty as something to be preserved, the Liberal thinks of it as something to be enlarged.

Clinton Rossiter

#13. No form of government can survive that excludes dictatorship when the life of the nation is at stake.

Clinton Rossiter

#14. Ever since Jordana dumpled me, I've started feeling like a middle-aged person. I think it is to do with trauma. I just walk around doing and impression of a sixteen-year-old.

Joe Dunthorne

#15. Even if a government can be constitutional without being democratic, it cannot be democratic without being constitutional.

Clinton Rossiter

#16. It's an honor playing for Bobby Cox.

Jeff Francoeur

#17. I can't think of a better way to revenge someone who tried to break you,
Than to live and love life more without them.

Innocent Mwatsikesimbe

#18. At the departure gate, a drunken airport security woman was handing out box cutters to the passengers.

Warren Ellis