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  2. A friend in power is a friend lost.

    Henry Brooks Adams

     

  3. These are times in which a genius would wish to live. It is not in the still calm of life, or in therepose of a pacific station, that great challenges are formed….Great necessities call out greatvirtues.

    Abigail Adams

     

  4. I will undoubtedly have to seek what is happily known as gainful employment, which I amglad to say does not describe holding public office.

    Dean Acheson

     

  5. The Answer to the Great Question Of…Life, the Universe andEverything…[is] Forty-two.

    Douglas Adams

     

  6. It would be superfluous in me to point out to your lordship that this is war.

    Charles Francis Adams

     

  7. Let them hate, so long as they fear.

    Accius

     

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  9. History will absolve me.

    Fidel Castro