Certainty is foolish ---- It’s not what we don’t know that gets us in trouble. It’s what we know for sure that just ain’t so.

Certainty is impossible — we see through a glass, darkly.

Certainty is an absurd one.

Certainty is dangerous — Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Empire , like expanded gold, exchanges solid strength for feeble splendor.

Empire always tells itself and the world that it is unlike all other empires, that its mission is not to plunder and control but to educate and liberate.

Empire is necessarily always claiming that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort.

Government is power-hungry — there's nothing more permanent than a temporary government solution.

Government is not an amoral system — morality is the object of government.

Government is not an exact science.

Government is emphatically a machine: to the discontented a ' taxing machine," to the contented a" machine for securing property.".

Health is primarily about eating, not about medicine. As such, the produce manager is more important to one's children's health than the pediatrician.

Health is when every day it hurts in a different place.

Health is the silence of the organs.

Health is the groundwork of all happiness.