For every talent that poverty has stimulated it has blighted a hundred. – John Gardner
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale. – John Gardner
It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government. – John Gardner
Talking, talking. Spinning a web of words, pale walls of dreams, between myself and all I see. – John Gardner
The longer a man lives in this world the more he must be convinced that all domestic quarrels had better never be obtruded on the public; for, let the husband be right, or let him be wrong, there is always a sympathy existing for women which is certain to give the man the worst of it. – Benjamin Haydon