"I had to do something for the country."

“If you have a character stand up and put on her shoes and open the door, in order to do that, you're imagining her shoes and her clothes and her house and her door. The character becomes more real. But once you've done that, you can probably just get it all across with a couple of details.”

“In wartime we identify ourselves with the nation, and its interests are the interests of our primal selves.”

“I do believe that we're in a true golden era of television, and I think it started with 'Hill Street.”

“Duets are not about individual skill but about the relationship between the two players.”

“With respect to the northeastern boundary of the United States, no official correspondence between this Government and that of Great Britain has passed since that communicated to Congress toward the close of their last session.”

“Satan and all his agents, with all their combined strength and subtilty, cannot separate one soul from Christ.”

Source : Robert Shaw (1845). “An Exposition of the Confession of Faith of the Westminster Assembly of Divines”, p.273

“An unexamined faith is not worth having, for it can be true only by accident.”

“A drunkard in the gutter is just where he ought to be, according to the fitness and tendency of things. Nature has set upon him the process of decline and dissolution by which she removes things which have survived their usefulness.”

Source : William Graham Sumner (1903). “What Social Classes Owe to Each Other”, p.114, Ludwig von Mises Institute