The president's poking fun at himself over what goes down. I thought it was a good-natured performance. It made him look good. But he certainly doesn't disguise the record on weapons of mass destruction. And you feel like saying to people, Just get over it.


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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of ...
DAVID HUME
In working class districts, you had several families living together in the one house, and it was ve...
JOHN HUME
There were two mentalities, and both mentalities had to change. There was what I called the Afrikane...
JOHN HUME
Beauty in things exists in the mind which contemplates them.
DAVID HUME
Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, ...
BASIL HUME
Custom is the great guide of human life.
DAVID HUME
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: it exists merely in the mind which contemplates them.
DAVID HUME
Beauty in things exist in the mind which contemplates them.
DAVID HUME
Art may make a suit of clothes: but nature must produce a man.
DAVID HUME
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, "Doe...
DAVID HUME
Truth, springs from agrument amongst friends.
DAVID HUME
Truth springs from argument amongst friends.
DAVID HUME
On the theory of the soul
DAVID HUME
Human happiness seems to consist in three ingredients; action, pleasure and indolence. And though th...
DAVID HUME
All labours draw hame at even, And can to others say, "Thanks to the gracious God of heaven, ...
ALEXANDER HUME
If suicide be supposed a crime, it is only cowardice can impel us to it. If it be no crime, both p...
DAVID HUME
The gloaming comes, the day is spent, The sun goes out of sight, And painted is the occident ...
ALEXANDER HUME
Among well-bred people a mutual deference is affected, contempt for others is disguised; authority c...
DAVID HUME
The whole business of marshaling one's energies becomes more and more important as one grows old...
HUME CRONYN
I went to the local schools, the local state primary school, and then to the local grammar school. A...
JOHN HUME
In my opinion, what changed the situation eventually - and, of course, it took a lot of time to chan...
JOHN HUME
Belief is nothing but a more vivid, lively, forcible, firm, steady conception of an object, than wha...
DAVID HUME
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its ...
DAVID HUME
What a peculiar privilege has this little agitation of the brain which we call 'thought'
DAVID HUME
Nothing appears more surprising to those who consider human affairs with a philosophical eye, than t...
DAVID HUME
Generally speaking, the errors in religion are dangerous; those in philosophy only ridiculous.
DAVID HUME
No testimony is sufficient to establish a miracle, unless the testimony be of such a kind, that its ...
DAVID HUME
Our course, then, is clear; if we desire to put an end to pauperism, or to lessen it, we should impo...
JOSEPH HUME
I have to go with what the painting says to me. The painting is always informing me. I'm its ser...
GARY HUME
Men often act knowingly against their interest.
DAVID HUME
To be a philosophical sceptic is, in a man of letters, the first and most essential to being a sound...
DAVID HUME
Total ghettoization, because they were in charge of public housing, the local council, and they deli...
JOHN HUME
Beauty is no quality in things themselves: It exists merely in the mind which contemplates them; and...
DAVID HUME
Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, w...
DAVID HUME
The advantage to Great Britain of a regular free trade in corn would, therefore, be more by raising ...
JOSEPH HUME
If we take in our hand any volume; of divinity or school metaphysics, for instance; let us ask, Does...
DAVID HUME
This isn't just an award to David Trimble and myself. It's an award to all the people of Northern Ir...
JOHN HUME
Every child growing up will look to their parents, my mother and my father. My grandmother lived wit...
JOHN HUME