Four-fifths of all our troubles would disappear, if we would only sit down and keep still.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think we would be dead and gone if we were just mostly failing.
Who knows what will happen in five years' time.
Five or six hundred heads cut off would have assured your repose, freedom and happiness.
I write five pages a day. If you would read five pages a day, we'd stay right even.
If you'd have told me five years ago that I'd have done all this - two books, some television and everything - I'd panic, I'd be scared.
One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years?
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
Even if we did achieve what we wanted with a very small state, we'd just be resetting the clock back to 1776, and it would roll forward exactly the same way again.
If we discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say, every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to stammer that they loved them.