Pereant, inquit, qui ante nos nostra dixerunt. [Confound those who have said our remarks before us.] or [May they perish who have expressed our bright ideas before us.]

If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I would not pass it around. Trouble creates a capacity to handle it. I don't say embrace trouble; that's as bad as treating it as an enemy. But I do say meet it as a friend, for you'll see a lot of it and y

Americans' greatest fear is that America will turn out to have been a phenomenon, not a civilization.

Governor Tarkin. I should have expected to find you holding Vader's leash. I thought I recognized your foul stench when I was brought on board.

Absolutum obsoletum. (If it works, it's out of date.)

You can no more win a war than you can win an earthquake.

There is no distinctly native American criminal class except Congress.

It is not enough that I should succeed. Others must fail.