Men are all right for friends, but as soon as you marry them they turn into cranky old fathers, even the wild ones. They begin to ...tell you what's sensible and what's foolish, and want you to stick at home all the time. I prefer to be foolish when I feel like it, and be accountable to nobody.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There can only be one Commander-in-Chief. In these times, crises cannot be managed and wars cannot be waged by committee. To the e...ars of the world, the President speaks for the nation. While he is of course ultimately accountable to Congress, the courts, and the people, he and his emissaries must not be handicapped in advance in their relations with foreign governments as has sometimes happened in the past.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The mayor and Montaigne have always been two, with a very clear separation. For all of being a lawyer or a financier, we must not ...ignore the knavery there is in such callings. An honest man is not accountable for the vice or stupidity of his trade, and should not therefore refuse to practice it.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I sometimes wonder whether, in the still, sleepless hours of the night, the consciences of ... professional gossips do not stalk t...hem. I myself believe in a final reckoning, when we shall be held accountable for our misdeeds. Do they? If so, they have cause to worry over many scoops that brought them a day's dubious laurels and perhaps destroyed someone's peace forever.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »