In a free society, government reflects the soul of its people. If people want change at the top, they will have to live in different ways. Our major social problems are not the cause of our decadence. They are a reflection of it.

It is hard to feel individually responsible with respect to the invisible processes of a huge and distant government.

Let the people think they govern and they will be governed.

Washington is a place where politicians don't know which way is up and taxes don't know which way is down.

Democracy is the only system that persists in asking the powers that be whether they are the powers that ought to be.

I'm tired of hearing it said that democracy doesn't work. Of course it doesn't work. We are supposed to work it.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

Democracy is an abuse of statistics.

A corporation's primary goal is to make money. Government's primary role is to take a big chunk of that money and give it to others.

The fact that political ideologies are tangible realities is not a proof of their vitally necessary character. The bubonic plague was an extraordinarily powerful social reality, but no one would have regarded it as vitally necessary.

Talk is cheap - except when Congress does it.

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern: every class is unfit to govern.

Government is a trust, and the officers of the government are trustees. And both the trust and the trustees are created for the benefit of the people.

I have long believed taxpayers make better use of their money than the government ever could.

To hear some men talk of the government, you would suppose that Congress was the law of gravitation, and kept the planets in their places.

The way people in democracies think of the government as something different from themselves is a real handicap. And, of course, sometimes the government confirms their opinion.

If human beings are fundamentally good, no government is necessary if they are fundamentally bad, any government, being composed of human beings, would be bad also.

Americans no longer look to government for economic security rather, they look to their portfolios.

Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.

Government alone cannot solve the problems we deal with in our correctional facilities, treatment centers, homeless shelters and crisis centers - we need our faith-based and community partners.

Bureaucracy gives birth to itself and then expects maternity benefits.

The mistakes made by Congress wouldn't be so bad if the next Congress didn't keep trying to correct them.

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic.

Government is an unnecessary evil. Human beings, when accustomed to taking responsibility for their own behavior, can cooperate on a basis of mutual trust and helpfulness.

The essence of good government is trust.

But no one has yet succeeded in reducing the size or scope of the federal government.

We live under a government of men and morning newspapers.

As a governor, I am naturally inclined to focus on the domestic side of protecting the United States.

But let us remember, at the same time, government is sacred, and not to be trifled with.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.

Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.

Man is not free unless government is limited.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!

Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.

Government's first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

If you put the federal government in charge of the Sahara Desert, in 5 years there'd be a shortage of sand.

The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.

The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of government in the next.

We are fast approaching the stage of the ultimate inversion: the stage where the government is free to do anything it pleases, while the citizens may act only by permission which is the stage of the darkest periods of human history, the stage of rule by brute force.

The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help.

Loyalty to the country always. Loyalty to the government when it deserves it.

The people will save their government, if the government itself will allow them.

Government does not solve problems it subsidizes them.

Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people. It is wholly inadequate to the government of any other.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

It is amazing that people who think we cannot afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, and medication somehow think that we can afford to pay for doctors, hospitals, medication and a government bureaucracy to administer it.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.

When the government violates the people's rights, insurrection is, for the people and for each portion of the people, the most sacred of the rights and the most indispensible of duties.

It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.

The republican is the only form of government which is not eternally at open or secret war with the rights of mankind.

The Chinese government wants me to say that for many centuries Tibet has been part of China. Even if I make that statement, many people would just laugh. And my statement will not change past history. History is history.

Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.

The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he, then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

History, in general, only informs us of what bad government is.

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists and will persist.

When I am abroad, I always make it a rule never to criticize or attack the government of my own country. I make up for lost time when I come home.

Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

Conquest is not in our principles. It is inconsistent with our government.

If the machine of government is of such a nature that it requires you to be the agent of injustice to another, then, I say, break the law.

Potentially, a government is the most dangerous threat to man's rights: it holds a legal monopoly on the use of physical force against legally disarmed victims.

Democracy is worth dying for, because it's the most deeply honorable form of government ever devised by man.

I own that I am not a friend to a very energetic government. It is always oppressive.

An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger.

So confident am I in the intentions, as well as wisdom, of the government, that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done, either cannot, or ought not to be done.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free no one ever will.

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned an invisible government owing no allegiance and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Be thankful we're not getting all the government we're paying for.

The taxpayer - that's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination.

The second office in the government is honorable and easy the first is but a splendid misery.

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped.

Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets.

One way to make sure crime doesn't pay would be to let the government run it.

Protecting the rights of even the least individual among us is basically the only excuse the government has for even existing.

Over grown military establishments are under any form of government inauspicious to liberty, and are to be regarded as particularly hostile to republican liberty.

The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable.

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.

The Democrats are the party that says government will make you smarter, taller, richer, and remove the crabgrass on your lawn. The Republicans are the party that says government doesn't work and then they get elected and prove it.

If the federal government had been around when the Creator was putting His hand to this state, Indiana wouldn't be here. It'd still be waiting for an environmental impact statement.

Today, if you invent a better mousetrap, the government comes along with a better mouse.

I think that people want peace so much that one of these days government had better get out of their way and let them have it.

It's time to fundamentally change the way that we do business in Washington. To help build a new foundation for the 21st century, we need to reform our government so that it is more efficient, more transparent, and more creative. That will demand new thinking and a new sense of responsibility for every dollar that is spent.

My brother Bob doesn't want to be in government - he promised Dad he'd go straight.

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best attained when all persons alike share in government to the utmost.

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and frequently fall than that of defrauding the government.

In general, the art of government consists of taking as much money as possible from one class of citizens to give to another.

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it.

Christmas is the time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell government what they want and their kids pay for it.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

I don't make jokes. I just watch the government and report the facts.

Democracy... is a charming form of government, full of variety and disorder and dispensing a sort of equality to equals and unequals alike.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer, that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

The basis of our political system is the right of the people to make and to alter their constitutions of government.

What is ominous is the ease with which some people go from saying that they don't like something to saying that the government should forbid it. When you go down that road, don't expect freedom to survive very long.

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

I'd rather entrust the government of the United States to the first 400 people listed in the Boston telephone directory than to the faculty of Harvard University.

Mankind, when left to themselves, are unfit for their own government.

If you like small government you need to work hard at having a strong national defense that is not so militant. Personal liberty is the purpose of government, to protect liberty - not to run your personal life, not to run the economy, and not to pretend that we can tell the world how they ought to live.

A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have.

A free America... means just this: individual freedom for all, rich or poor, or else this system of government we call democracy is only an expedient to enslave man to the machine and make him like it.

When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.

By definition, a government has no conscience. Sometimes it has a policy, but nothing more.

Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is also a prison.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

It may be laid down as a primary position, and the basis of our system, that every Citizen who enjoys the protection of a Free Government, owes not only a proportion of his property, but even of his personal services to the defense of it.

I am just absolutely convinced that the best formula for giving us peace and preserving the American way of life is freedom, limited government, and minding our own business overseas.

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

Fascism should rightly be called Corporatism, as it is the merger of corporate and government power.

The government is us we are the government, you and I.

The administration of justice is the firmest pillar of government.

Only government can take perfectly good paper, cover it with perfectly good ink and make the combination worthless.

Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.

An ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The real goal should be reduced government spending, rather than balanced budgets achieved by ever rising tax rates to cover ever rising spending.

The art of government is to make two-thirds of a nation pay all it possibly can pay for the benefit of the other third.

Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best stage, is but a necessary evil in its worst state an intolerable one.

It's not tyranny we desire it's a just, limited, federal government.

A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

I believe there is something out there watching us. Unfortunately, it's the government.

On account of being a democracy and run by the people, we are the only nation in the world that has to keep a government four years, no matter what it does.

Now, let me be clear. The path I lay out is not one paved with ever increasing government checks and cradle to grave assurance that government will always be the solution. If this election is a bidding war for who can promise the most goodies and the most benefits, I'm not your president. You have that president today.

Government is an association of men who do violence to the rest of us.

There are many people who feel that it is useless and futile to continue talking about peace and non-violence against a government whose only reply is savage attacks on an unarmed and defenceless people.

Things in our country run in spite of government, not by aid of it.

If you make any money, the government shoves you in the creek once a year with it in your pockets, and all that don't get wet you can keep.

Many people want the government to protect the consumer. A much more urgent problem is to protect the consumer from the government.

There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.

I spent my whole life in the private sector, 25 years in the private sector. I understand that when government takes more money out of the hands of people, it makes it more difficult for them to buy things. If they can't buy things, the economy doesn't grow. If the economy doesn't grow, we don't put Americans to work.

It's easy being a humorist when you've got the whole government working for you.

It's a good thing we don't get all the government we pay for.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

The greatest advances of civilization, whether in architecture or painting, in science and literature, in industry or agriculture, have never come from centralized government.

There is only one kind of freedom and that's individual liberty. Our lives come from our creator and our liberty comes from our creator. It has nothing to do with government granting it.

The only sure bulwark of continuing liberty is a government strong enough to protect the interests of the people, and a people strong enough and well enough informed to maintain its sovereign control over the goverment.

I am sometimes a fox and sometimes a lion. The whole secret of government lies in knowing when to be the one or the other.

I was ecstatic they re-named 'French Fries' as 'Freedom Fries'. Grown men and women in positions of power in the U.S. government showing themselves as idiots.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

I am absolutely opposed to a national ID card. This is a total contradiction of what a free society is all about. The purpose of government is to protect the secrecy and the privacy of all individuals, not the secrecy of government. We don't need a national ID card.

There's no trick to being a humorist when you have the whole government working for you.

The Internet didn't get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

Not only our future economic soundness but the very soundness of our democratic institutions depends on the determination of our government to give employment to idle men.

We believe in individual initiative, personal responsibility, opportunity, freedom, small government, the Constitution. These principles, these American principles are key to getting our economy back to being successful and leading the world.

Dependency is death to initiative, to risk-taking and opportunity. It's time to stop the spread of government dependency and fight it like the poison it is.

Freedom isn't free. It shouldn't be a bragging point that 'Oh, I don't get involved in politics,' as if that makes someone cleaner. No, that makes you derelict of duty in a republic. Liars and panderers in government would have a much harder time of it if so many people didn't insist on their right to remain ignorant and blindly agreeable.

The ideal form of government is democracy tempered with assassination.

The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.

Government is taking 40 percent of the GDP. And that's at the state, local and federal level. President Obama has taken government spending at the federal level from 20 percent to 25 percent. Look, at some point, you cease being a free economy, and you become a government economy. And we've got to stop that.

The universe never did make sense I suspect it was built on government contract.

Life in general has never been even close to fair, so the pretense that the government can make it fair is a valuable and inexhaustible asset to politicians who want to expand government.

The invisible hand of the market always moves faster and better than the heavy hand of government.

I'm not really conservative. I'm conservative on certain things. I believe in less government. I believe in fiscal responsibility and all those things that maybe Republicans used to believe in but don't any more.

There is nothing wrong with describing Conservatism as protecting the Constitution, protecting all things that limit government. Government is the enemy of liberty. Government should be very restrained.

The Negro revolution is controlled by foxy white liberals, by the Government itself. But the Black Revolution is controlled only by God.

The worst government is often the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression.

And a special thank you to the citizens of Massachusetts: You are paying all the taxes, creating all the jobs, raising all the children. This government is yours. Thank you for letting me serve you. I love this job.

The highest glory of the American Revolution was this: it connected in one indissoluble bond the principles of civil government with the principles of Christianity.

The best government is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.

I believe that all government is evil, and that trying to improve it is largely a waste of time.

Just in general, any government throughout history hasn't really wanted its people to be educated, because then they couldn't control them as easily.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

All government, of course, is against liberty.

Perhaps religious conscience upsets the designs of those who feel that the highest wisdom and authority comes from government. But from the beginning, this nation trusted in God, not man. Religious liberty is the first freedom in our Constitution.

Free enterprise has done more to lift people out of poverty, to help build a strong middle class, to help educate our kids, and to make our lives better than all the programs of government combined.

Which government is the best? The one that teaches us to govern ourselves.

The United States Constitution has proved itself the most marvelously elastic compilation of rules of government ever written.

Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under.

Liberty has never come from Government. Liberty has always come from the subjects of it. The history of liberty is a history of limitations of governmental power, not the increase of it.

Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.

Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of man will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice without constraint.

Just think of what Woodrow Wilson stood for: he stood for world government. He wanted an early United Nations, League of Nations. But it was the conservatives, Republicans, that stood up against him.

Nothing is so permanent as a temporary government program.

The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.

You balance the budget by restraining the growth of government and encouraging the growth of the private sector.

By making bold cuts in spending and commonsense entitlement reforms, we will make our government simpler, smaller, and smarter.

It's opportunity. It's opportunity, not a check from government - it's opportunity that has always driven America and defined us as Americans.

It is horrifying that we have to fight our own government to save the environment.

A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.

The answer for healthcare is market incentives, not healthcare by a Godzilla-sized government bureaucracy.

I would cap the amount of federal government can spend at 20 percent of the economy. Bring it back to 20 percent or lower. And say, we are not going to spend above that level. Democrats, they want to raise your taxes and spend more and more and turn us into an economy which is no longer driven by the private sector.

Our nation is too different, too diverse to say that what works in Massachusetts is somehow going to be grabbed by the federal government, usurping the power of states and imposing a one-size-fits-all plan on the nation. That will not work.

This President takes his inspiration from the capitals of Europe we look to the cities and small towns of America. This President puts his faith in government. We put our faith in the American people.

I know what it's like to start a business. I know how extra ordinarily difficult it is to build something from nothing. I know how government kills jobs and, yes, I know how it can help from time- to-time.

On one of the most personal matters of our lives, our health care, President Obama would turn decision making over to government bureaucrats. He forced through Obama-care and I will repeal it.

Democrats want to use the slowdown as an excuse to do what their special interests are always begging for: higher taxes, bigger government and less trade with other nations.

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

I don't want to transform America. I want to restore to America the economic values of freedom and opportunity and limited government that has made us the powerhouse of the world.

I think people need to be educated to the fact that marijuana is not a drug. Marijuana is an herb and a flower. God put it here. If He put it here and He wants it to grow, what gives the government the right to say that God is wrong?

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I had the privilege of practicing medicine in the early '60s, before we had any government. It worked rather well, and there was nobody on the street suffering with no medical care.

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy.

No group and no government can properly prescribe precisely what should constitute the body of knowledge with which true education is concerned.

In other words, a democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.

Well private money can take risks in a way that government money often isn't willing to.

All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

The duty of government is to leave commerce to its own capital and credit as well as all other branches of business, protecting all in their legal pursuits, granting exclusive privileges to none.

In our civilization, and under our republican form of government, intelligence is so highly honored that it is rewarded by exemption from the cares of office.

To establish any mode to abolish war, however advantageous it might be to Nations, would be to take from such Government the most lucrative of its branches.

Government does not create wealth. The major role for the government is to create an environment where people take risks to expand the job rate in the United States.

Most of the energy of political work is devoted to correcting the effects of mismanagement of government.

The impersonal hand of government can never replace the helping hand of a neighbor.

A government of laws, and not of men.

Anyone who thinks that the vice-president can take a position independent of the president of his administration simply has no knowledge of politics or government. You are his choice in a political marriage, and he expects your absolute loyalty.

There is too much government today. We've got to remember the government should be by the people, of the people, and for the people.

The reason this country continues its drift toward socialism and big nanny government is because too many people vote in the expectation of getting something for nothing, not because they have a concern for what is good for the country.

One of the key problems today is that politics is such a disgrace, good people don't go into government.

Those who want the Government to regulate matters of the mind and spirit are like men who are so afraid of being murdered that they commit suicide to avoid assassination.

Even to observe neutrality you must have a strong government.

Our government has kept us in a perpetual state of fear - kept us in a continuous stampede of patriotic fervor - with the cry of grave national emergency.

We are beginning a new era in our government. I cannot too strongly urge the necessity of a rigid economy and an inflexible determination not to enlarge the income beyond the real necessities of the government.

I don't think the government should be in the trailer-park business. I don't think they know how to run a trailer park.

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

No one should negotiate their dreams. Dreams must be free to fly high. No government, no legislature, has a right to limit your dreams. You should never agree to surrender your dreams.

The income tax created more criminals than any other single act of government.

The federal government has sponsored research that has produced a tomato that is perfect in every respect, except that you can't eat it. We should make every effort to make sure this disease, often referred to as 'progress', doesn't spread.

Both the American people and nations that censor the internet should understand that our government is committed to helping promote internet freedom.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing, or another, this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had, or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case, it is unfit to exist.

In the long-run every Government is the exact symbol of its People, with their wisdom and unwisdom we have to say, Like People like Government.

As I speak to you today, government censors somewhere are working furiously to erase my words from the records of history. But history itself has already condemned these tactics.

Perhaps the fact that we have seen millions voting themselves into complete dependence on a tyrant has made our generation understand that to choose one's government is not necessarily to secure freedom.

If everybody in this town connected with politics had to leave town because of chasing women and drinking, you would have no government.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

One of my goals upon becoming Secretary of State was to take diplomacy out of capitals, out of government offices, into the media, into the streets of countries.

The nuclear arsenal that Pakistan has, I believe is secure. I think the government and the military have taken adequate steps to protect that.

If you are working 50 hours a week in a factory, you don't have time to read 10 newspapers a day and go back to declassified government archives. But such people may have far-reaching insights into the way the world works.

Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

You know why there's a Second Amendment? In case the government fails to follow the first one.

A claim for equality of material position can be met only by a government with totalitarian powers.

While all other sciences have advanced, that of government is at a standstill - little better understood, little better practiced now than three or four thousand years ago.

Gun control means control. It means control for the government and the government starts controlling the people.

I don't think the government is out to get me or help someone else get me but it wouldn't surprise me if they were out to sell me something or help someone else sell me something. I mean, why else would the Census Bureau want to know my telephone number?

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

For those who aspire to live in a high cost, high tax, big government place, our nation and the world offers plenty of options. Vermont, Canada and Venezuela all offer you the opportunity to live in the socialist, big government paradise you long for.

Whatever it is that the government does, sensible Americans would prefer that the government does it to somebody else. This is the idea behind foreign policy.

As long as our government is administered for the good of the people, and is regulated by their will as long as it secures to us the rights of persons and of property, liberty of conscience and of the press, it will be worth defending.

We don't need a weakened government but a strong government that would take responsibility for the rights of the individual and care for the society as a whole.

The black market was a way of getting around government controls. It was a way of enabling the free market to work. It was a way of opening up, enabling people.

A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both.

The essence of a free government consists in an effectual control of rivalries.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

The first duty of government is to see that people have food, fuel, and clothes. The second, that they have means of moral and intellectual education.

For Forms of Government let fools contest whatever is best administered is best.

The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.

Any government that supports, protects or harbours terrorists is complicit in the murder of the innocent and equally guilty of terrorist crimes.

The mystery of government is not how Washington works but how to make it stop.

I also believe that government has no business telling us how we should live our lives. I think our lifestyle choices should be left up to us. What we do in our private lives is none of the government's business. That position rules out the Republican Party for me.

War should only be declared by the authority of the people, whose toils and treasures are to support its burdens, instead of the government which is to reap its fruits.

No Government can be long secure without a formidable Opposition.

I know it's going to be the private sector that leads this country out of the current economic times we're in. You can spend your money better than the government can spend your money.

If government were a product, selling it would be illegal.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

That fatal drollery called a representative government.

I hope all of you are going to fill out your census form when it comes in the mail next month. If you don't return the form the area you live in might get less government money and you wouldn't want that to happen, would you.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

Government proposes, bureaucracy disposes. And the bureaucracy must dispose of government proposals by dumping them on us.

The future is not Big Government. Self-serving politicians. Powerful bureaucrats. This has been tried, tested throughout history. The result has always been disaster. President Obama, your agenda is not new. It's not change, and it's not hope.

Do we believe that the goal of government is to promote equal opportunity for all Americans to make the most of their lives? Or, do we now believe that government's role is to equalize the results of peoples lives?

Poor people cannot rely on the government to come to help you in times of need. You have to get your education. Then nobody can control your destiny.

Fiscal conservatism is just an easy way to express something that is a bit more difficult, which is that the size and scope of government, and really the size and scope of politics in our lives, has grown uncomfortable, unwieldy, intrusive and inefficient.

We need to understand that we as citizens and as a government in any community throughout this country have no more important obligation than to educate those who are going to replace us.

Our whole constitutional heritage rebels at the thought of giving government the power to control men's minds.

Politically, the world is so confused right now - there's so much suffering caused by various movements by various parties and people in power in government.

If any foreign minister begins to defend to the death a 'peace conference,' you can be sure his government has already placed its orders for new battleships and airplanes.

Democrats think the country works better with a strong middle class, real opportunities for poor people to work their way into it and a relentless focus on the future, with business and government working together to promote growth and broadly shared prosperity. We think 'we're all in this together' is a better philosophy than 'you're on your own.'

What would annoy the most people most often? That is the true left-wing test of government intervention.

This used to be a government of checks and balances. Now it's all checks and no balances.

When you have an efficient government, you have a dictatorship.

Government's first duty and highest obligation is public safety.

By a continuing process of inflation, government can confiscate, secretly and unobserved, an important part of the wealth of their citizens.

The problem with leaderless uprisings taking over is that you don't always know what you get at the other end. If you are not careful you could replace a bad government with one much worse!

We need a government, alas, because of the nature of humans.

The inherent purpose of American government is let people seek their own goals and to encourage them to be responsible on the various adventures they have on their way to those goals, good, bad, and otherwise.

The best defense against usurpatory government is an assertive citizenry.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria, you've got to be prepared, as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan, to become the government, and I'm not sure any country, either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else, who's willing to take on that responsibility.

The most important ways in which I think the Internet will affect the big issue is that it will make it more difficult for government to collect taxes.

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry, and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread, not for our government.

It's a very sobering feeling to be up in space and realize that one's safety factor was determined by the lowest bidder on a government contract.

One of the things the government can't do is run anything. The only things our government runs are the post office and the railroads, and both of them are bankrupt.

I have no doubt but that the misery of the lower classes will be found to abate whenever the Government assumes a freer aspect and the laws favor a subdivision of Property.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.

Money is power, and in that government which pays all the public officers of the states will all political power be substantially concentrated.

Government has no other end, but the preservation of property.

The essence of Government is power and power, lodged as it must be in human hands, will ever be liable to abuse.

We believe a renewed commitment to limited government will unshackle our economy and create millions of new jobs and opportunities for all people, of every background, to succeed and prosper. Under this approach, the spirit of initiative - not political clout - determines who succeeds.

Government is an evil it is only the thoughtlessness and vices of men that make it a necessary evil. When all men are good and wise, government will of itself decay.

I don't look for much to come out of government ownership as long as we have Democrats and Republicans.

To restore the trust of the people, we must reform the way the government operates.

When the people become involved in their government, government becomes more accountable, and our society is stronger, more compassionate, and better prepared for the challenges of the future.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

We are a forward-looking people, and we must have a forward-looking government.

I feel good because I believe I have made progress in rebuilding the people's trust in their government.

As president, Reagan worked very well with Democrats to do big things. It is true that he worked to reduce the size of government and cut federal taxes and he eliminated many regulations, but he also raised taxes when necessary.

A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.

The new rage is to say that the government is the cause of all our problems, and if only we had no government, we'd have no problems. I can tell you, that contradicts evidence, history, and common sense.

I only ask of the government to be treated as all other men are treated.

The diversity in the faculties of men, from which the rights of property originate, is not less an insuperable obstacle to an uniformity of interests. The protection of these faculties is the first object of government.

The union movement has been the best middle class job creating program that America has ever had, and it doesn't cost the government a dime.

When man lives under government, he is fallen, his worth is gone, and his nature tarnished.

What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels, no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men, neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

There is not much less vexation in the government of a private family than in the managing of an entire state.

We don't need new taxes. We need new taxpayers, people that are gainfully employed, making money and paying into the tax system. And then we need a government that has the discipline to take that additional revenue and use it to pay down the debt and never grow it again.

When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are poisoned.

I think art education, especially in this country, which government pretty much ignores, is so important for young people.

A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.

Though the people support the government the government should not support the people.

Democracy is the form of government that gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.

A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and administer the government in person.

There are no adequate substitutes for father, mother, and children bound together in a loving commitment to nurture and protect. No government, no matter how well-intentioned, can take the place of the family in the scheme of things.

Our founders got it right when they wrote in the Declaration of Independence that our rights come from nature and nature's God, not from government.

Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.

Well, first of all, I think that a lot of the voters who are voting for the tea party candidates have really good impulses. That is, they believe that for years and years and years, the people with wealth and power or government power have done well and ordinary people have not. That's true.

No government ought to be without censors and where the press is free, no one ever will. Chance is the pseudonym of God when he did not want to sign.

Folks, the most insidious part of this whole health care scheme is that all of these vast medical expenditures will become nothing more than government budget items. We individuals will no longer exist. The relationship between a government and citizen will change forever.

And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms.

No government fights fascism to destroy it. When the bourgeoisie sees that power is slipping out of its hands, it brings up fascism to hold onto their privileges.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

If Liberia has failed, then, it is no evidence of the failure of the Negro in government. It is merely evidence of the failure of slavery.

For most Americans, Friday afternoons are filled with positive anticipation of the weekend. In Washington, it's where government officials dump stories they want to bury. Good news gets dropped on Monday so bureaucrats can talk about it all week.

The rights of persons, and the rights of property, are the objects, for the protection of which Government was instituted.

Sure there are dishonest men in local government. But there are dishonest men in national government too.

Obama is trying to paint us as a caricature, as if we're some bizarre individualists who are hardcore libertarians. It's a false dichotomy and intellectually lazy. Of course we believe in government. We think government should do what it does really well, but that it has limits.

The people's government, made for the people, made by the people, and answerable to the people.

It would be foolish to suggest that government is a good custodian of aesthetic goals. But, there is no alternative to the state.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

Barack Obama's enemies are the people who make this country work. Barack Obama's enemies are those who succeed. Those are the people whose income he wants to redistribute. Those are the people whose income he wants to take, using the power and the force of the federal government to do it.

Religion flourishes in greater purity, without than with the aid of Government.

So Indian policy has become institutionalized and the result has been that American people have become more dependent on government and that the American people have become more dependent on corporations.

Disbelief in magic can force a poor soul into believing in government and business.

Republicans and Democrats have used accounting gimmicks and competing government analyses to deceive the public into believing that 2 + 2 = 6. If our leaders cannot agree on the numbers, if 'facts' are fictional, how can they possibly have a substantive debate on solutions?

The Government of the absolute majority instead of the Government of the people is but the Government of the strongest interests and when not efficiently checked, it is the most tyrannical and oppressive that can be devised.

And I keep saying, whether you like the president or not, everybody has to pull together and help the president because, as the president goes, so goes the country, as the country goes, so goes your job, your ability to feed your family, your government.

Convinced as I am and as I am from my government that the world needs a new moral architecture over all I believe that this should be the first topic to debate in our world of today, ethics, moral.

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves.

Indiscriminate firing by police on people is absolute barbarism. Instead of solving their problems, the government is trying to suppress the people by force.

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Our goal is to shrink government to the size where we can drown it in a bathtub.

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

Honesty, integrity, and accountability, the values, which should be the hallmark of this government, have instead been thrown under the bus by an arrogant majority, casualties in a misguided campaign to shield from accountability those who abuse this House.

Many people consider the things government does for them to be social progress but they regard the things government does for others as socialism.

We should reject big government and look inside ourselves for all the things that built this country into what it was.

Maybe we can show government how to operate better as a result of better architecture. Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

It is just as important that business keep out of government as that government keep out of business.

We need transparency in government spending. We need to put each government expenditure online so every Floridian can see where their tax money is being spent.

The control of information is something the elite always does, particularly in a despotic form of government. Information, knowledge, is power. If you can control information, you can control people.

People forget... that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that's what happened.

As Americans, we don't see the role of government as guaranteeing outcomes, but allowing free men and women to flourish based on their own vision, their hard work and their personal responsibility.

Political tyranny is nothing compared to the social tyranny and a reformer who defies society is a more courageous man than a politician who defies Government.

The government is tottering. We must deal it the death blow an any cost. To delay action is the same as death.

I don't believe we need the government's help as much as some think we do. That belief sets me apart from the Democrats, since their way of dealing with everything is to tax and spend.

The income tax is a twentieth-century socialist experiment that has failed. Before the income tax was imposed on us just 80 years ago, government had no claim to our income. Only sales, excise, and tariff taxes were allowed.

That's the definition of 'success' for the modern Democrat Party. As many people dependent on government as possible is the objective.

Since taking office, President Obama has signed into law spending increases of nearly 25 percent for domestic government agencies - an 84 percent increase when you include the failed stimulus. All of this new government spending was sold as 'investment.'

Every country has the government it deserves.

Most Americans aren't the sort of citizens the Founding Fathers expected they are contented serfs. Far from being active critics of government, they assume that its might makes it right.

Remember that government doesn't earn one single dollar it spends. In order for you to get money from the government, that money must first be taken from somebody else.

There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.

You could afford your house without the government if it weren't for the government.

Liberal Democrats are inexorably opposed to tax cuts, because tax cuts give people more power, and take away from the role of government.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Government stimulates the democrat party.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

This is a government takeover of our healthcare system. It is the government basically running the entire healthcare system, turning large insurers into de facto public utilities, depriving people of choice, depriving people of options, raising people's prices, raising taxes when we need new jobs.

The liberals think government exists to fix what's wrong with America. They find fault with our Constitution, our economic model and our core values. We disagree with the premise of their argument. We believe there's nothing wrong with America that an extra dose of freedom won't cure.

Every Indian outbreak that I have ever known has resulted from broken promises and broken treaties by the government.

Freedom of expression - in particular, freedom of the press - guarantees popular participation in the decisions and actions of government, and popular participation is the essence of our democracy.

The Federal Government should be the last resort, not the first. Ask if a potential program is truly a federal responsibility or whether it can better be handled privately, by voluntary organizations, or by local or state governments.

If Bush, as I believe, has reliable information on the fact that Saddam Hussein is making weapons of mass destruction, I cannot not support the policies of his government.

I think there are certain folks in Missouri that don't trust government. And they haven't trusted government for a long time.

I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every once in a while I get an idea about plumbing, I get an idea about city government, and they come the way they come.

The most cogent reason for restricting the interference of government is the great evil of adding unnecessarily to its power.

It is not an arrogant government that chooses priorities, it's an irresponsible government that fails to choose.

You know, I have found a new way to get high and stay spaced out for hours on end, and the government can't stop me... It's called senility.

But then it hasn't really been a focus of our government to make us an educated people.

Under the doctrine of separation of powers, the manner in which the president personally exercises his assigned executive powers is not subject to questioning by another branch of government.

I am concerned about the whole man. I am concerned about what the people, using their government as an instrument and a tool, can do toward building the whole man, which will mean a better society and a better world.

The lesson should be constantly enforced that though the people support the Government, Government should not support the people.

Increased government spending can provide a temporary stimulus to demand and output but in the longer run higher levels of government spending crowd out private investment or require higher taxes that weaken growth by reducing incentives to save, invest, innovate, and work.

I think if you look at people, whether in business or government, who haven't had any moral compass, who've just changed to say whatever they thought the popular thing was, in the end they're losers.

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

I happen to agree with many of the liberal emphasis on compassion, justice and equality. I just disagree that it's the government's role to provide everything.

You know what the fastest growing religion in America is? Statism. The growing reliance on government.

Democracy is when the people keep a government in check.

Our government is founded upon the intelligence of the people. I for one do not despair of the republic. I have great confidence in the virtue of the great majority of the people, and I cannot fear the result.

In the inner city, there's a mentality that the government owes you something. My breakthrough came when I stopped feeling sorry for myself and took responsibility for every part of my life. No more pity parties. I've gotta love me more than anybody else loves me.

We believe that the government has an important role to create the conditions that promote entrepreneurship, upward mobility, and individual responsibility.

The belief that recipients of government aid are better off the more we spend on them is remarkably persistent. No matter how many times this central tenet of liberalism gets debunked, like Brett Favre, it just keeps coming back.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.

Peace as a goal is an ideal which will not be contested by any government or nation, not even the most belligerent.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

Every wise, just, and mild government, by rendering the condition of its subjects easy and secure, will always abound most in people, as well as in commodities and riches.

Democracy is not so much a form of government as a set of principles.

I didn't do improv in college, I never performed, I didn't do theater either. I was in student government, I was a history major.

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

The government's view is that the best time to announce bad news, news that it doesn't want the public to dwell on is late on a Friday, when it will wind up in the Saturday papers, which if you were readers, then the week day editions. A holiday weekend is even better.

I believe we need to attract a new generation of the best and brightest to public service and I believe that government can be a source of inspiration, not degradation.

In a very weak economy, when you say 'cut government spending,' what you mean is you're laying off school teachers and you're de-funding various programs that put money into the economy. This means you have more unemployed people that then draw unemployment benefits and don't pay taxes.

So the American government lied to the Native Americans for many, many years, and then President Clinton lied about a relationship, and everyone was surprised! A little naive, I feel!

I don't imagine Heads of Government would ever be able to say I'm not an economist therefore I can't take decisions on matters of the economy I'm not a soldier I can't take decisions on matters of defence I'm not an educationist so I can't take decisions about education.

We are all representatives of the American people. We all do town hall meetings. We all talk to our constituents. And I've got to tell you, the American people are engaged. And if you think they want a government takeover of health care, I would respectfully submit you're not listening to them.

We need to reclaim our American system of limited government, low taxes, reasonable regulations, and sound money, which has blessed us with unprecedented prosperity. And it has done more to help the poor than any other economic system ever designed.

Conventional wisdom on government's role in inequality often has it backwards. Tax reforms have resulted in a more progressive federal income tax government transfer payments have become less progressive.

President Obama's reckless defense cuts that are hanging over our cloud, hanging over the horizon could put almost 44,000 jobs at stake right here in Pennsylvania. we are not going to let that happen. You know why? Because No. 1, national defense is the first priority of the federal government.

In a clean break from the Obama years, and frankly from the years before this president, we will keep federal spending at 20 percent of GDP, or less. That is enough. The choice is whether to put hard limits on economic growth, or hard limits on the size of government, and we choose to limit government.

I think its rather peculiar. It's not in keeping with our founding documents, our founding vision. But I'd guess you'd have to ask the Obama administration why they purged all this language from their platform. There sure is a lot of mention of government, so I guess I would put the onus on them to answer why they did all these purges of God.

I can't really criticize the Tea Party people, because I came into the White House pretty much on the same basis that they have become popular. That is dissatisfaction with the way things are going in Washington and disillusionment and disencouragement about the government.

Say what you like about my bloody murderous government,' I says, 'but don't insult me poor bleedin' country.

To reduce deficit spending and our enormous debt, you reign in spending. You cut the budget. You don't take more from the private sector and grow government with it. And that's exactly what Obama has in mind with this expiration of Bush tax cuts proposal of his.

The less government interferes with private pursuits, the better for general prosperity.

My actions constituted pure hacking that resulted in relatively trivial expenses for the companies involved, despite the government's false claims.

If there are men in this country big enough to own the government of the United States, they are going to own it.

The awakening of the people of China to the possibilities under free government is the most significant, if not the most momentous, event of our generation.

Every form of government tends to perish by excess of its basic principle.

I have a message from the Tea Party, a message that is loud and clear and does not mince words. We've come to take our government back.

Government works less efficiently when it begins to grow out of control and takes on more and more of the responsibilities that belong to the citizens.

It was settled by the Constitution, the laws, and the whole practice of the government that the entire executive power is vested in the President of the United States.

That no government, so called, can reasonably be trusted, or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view, any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

The weather is like the government, always in the wrong.

But those who believe that what our people desire is big government are living in a state of delusion.

But America was founded on the principle that every person has God-given rights. That power belongs to the people. That government exists to protect our rights and serve our interests.That we shouldn't be trapped in the circumstances of our birth. That we should be free to go as far as our talents and work can take us.

Those outside of autism need to understand this is an epidemic and we need more government funding, insurance coverage and education reform.

The best form of government is that which is most likely to prevent the greatest sum of evil.

Somehow liberals have been unable to acquire from life what conservatives seem to be endowed with at birth: namely, a healthy skepticism of the powers of government agencies to do good.

Had the United States and the United Kingdom gone on alone to capture Baghdad, under the provisions of the Geneva and Hague conventions we would have been considered occupying powers and therefore would have been responsible for all the costs of maintaining or restoring government, education and other services for the people of Iraq.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything. If you do, you're screwed.

Government is essentially immoral.

When the three branches of government have failed to represent the citizenry and the mass of the media has failed to represent the citizenry, then the citizenry better represent the citizenry.

The Soviet government is the most realistic regime in the world - no ideals.

Government is dysfunctional.

There's never been a nation like the United States, ever. It begins with the principles of our founding documents, principles that recognize that our rights come from God, not from our government.

The problem is that when government controls the economy, those who can influence government keep winning, and everybody else just stays the same.

You know that big government doesn't hurt big corporations. They've got the best lawyers and accountants in the world. You know who gets destroyed by big government? It's the little guys.

Unfortunately, President Obama's failed policies of new regulations, higher taxes, and Obamacare and his anti-business rhetoric have hit Hispanics especially hard. Big government really hurts those who are trying to make it.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom.

It's very difficult for the American people to believe that our government, one of the richest on Earth, is also one of the stingiest on Earth.

Government is the great fiction, through which everybody endeavors to live at the expense of everybody else.

World War II was the last government program that really worked.

Communism is a hateful thing, and a menace to peace and organized government.

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

I decided I ought to pick a project that would not be controversial, that would not really cost the government a lot of money.

Government's role should be only to keep the playing field level, and to work hand in hand with business on issues such as employment. But beyond this, to as great an extent as possible, it should get the hell out of the way.

We tried to have diplomas without learning, we tried to have jobs without work, we tried to have houses without savings, we tried to have government without responsibility.

It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.

The time has come to tell the truth about the corruption of the government employee unions in this country.

Surely the President can agree with us, that theft from government is not good. I know it's bold. It's out on the edge. I know from a Chicago-Springfield background it's hard to fully grasp that honesty could be part of government.

People should be free, people should be unencumbered by regulation as much as possible, that big government always goes corrupt and the truth shall always set you free.

Both my parents are English and came out to Australia in 1967. I was born the following year. My parents, and immigrants like them, were known as '&pound10 poms.' Back then, the Australian government was trying to get educated British people and Canadians - to be honest, educated white people - to come and live in Australia.

Knowledge about the economy, ideas about capitalism and government, the future of the world and geopolitics were things I was never really interested in.

America needs jobs, smaller government, less spending and a president with the courage to offer more than yet another speech.

In the rush to become all things to all people, the federal government has lost sight of its core responsibilities. As a result we're stuck in this frustrating paradox where Washington actually neglects things it's clearly supposed to be doing, while interfering in other areas where they are neither welcome nor authorized.

In the government schools, which are referred to as public schools, Indian policy has been instituted there, and its a policy where they do not encourage, in fact, discourage, critical thinking and the creation of ideas and public education.

Of all tasks of government the most basic is to protect its citizens against violence.

And you can't have a prosperous economy when the government is way overspending, raising tax rates, printing too much money, over regulating and restricting free trade. It just can't be done.

In my view, the Christian religion is the most important and one of the first things in which all children, under a free government ought to be instructed.

Leaders at the highest levels of our government are undertaking a deliberate and systematic effort to redefine our government, our economy and our country.

And here's the fact: the fact is it doesn't solve the problem. First of all, if you taxed these people at 100 percent, basically next year you said, 'Look, every penny you make next year the government's going to take it from you,' it still doesn't solve the debt.

I traveled the state of Florida for two years campaigning. I have never met a job creator who told me that they were waiting for the next tax increase before they started growing their business. I've never met a single job creator who's ever said to me I can't wait until government raises taxes again so I can go out and create a job.

We have a government that borrows $4 billion a day. We have a government that owes trillions of dollars in debt, half of that to foreigners, most of that to Chinese investors. I don't - that is extreme. Not only is it extreme. It's insane and it's unsustainable.

And I can tell you that history will back up what I'm about to say and that is that there is no government run by conservatives, Republicans, put whoever you want there, if you give government the opportunity to spend more money than it has, it will do it. It will do it every time.

We can not continue to allow this over reliance on government to replace the cornerstone institution that has made the American experience possible.

Of course there are critics who believe that no matter what we do, the Florida dream is over. They claim that we must accept the idea that inevitably our future is one of high taxes and big government.

Let's stop big government energy mandates like cap-and-trade, and instead trust the American innovator to make us energy independent.

Americans chose a limited government that exists to protect our rights, not to grant them.

Under this president, we have a government that has grown too big, too costly and now even more overbearing by forcing religious entities to abandon their beliefs.

I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

We chose more freedom instead of more government. We chose the principles of our founding to solve the challenges of our time. We chose a special man to lead us in a special time. We chose Mitt Romney to lead our nation.

While democracy in the long run is the most stable form of government, in the short run, it is among the most fragile.

But without a caring society, without each citizen voluntarily accepting the weight of responsibility, government is destined to grow even larger, taking more of your money, burrowing deeper into your lives.

And I don't think that government has a role in telling people how to live their lives. Maybe a minister does, maybe your belief in God does, maybe there's another set of moral codes, but I don't think government has a role.

Secrecy, being an instrument of conspiracy, ought never to be the system of a regular government.

The Canadian government continues to say they will not help us if we go to war with Iraq. However, the prime minister of Canada said he'd like to help, but he's pretty sure that last time he checked, Canada had no army.

I believe the American people have a genuine and justifiable fear of government intrusion in what they instinctively know is going to be an ever more intrusive world.

Dishonesty in government is the business of every citizen. It is not enough to do your own job. There's no particular virtue in that. Democracy isn't a gift. It's a responsibility.

Hello my name is the Republican Party and I got a problem. I'm addicted to spending and big government.' I'd like one of them just to stand up and say that.;Glenn Beck;government 30268;If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.;Lysander Spooner;government 30269;There is nothing inherently fair about equalizing incomes. If the government penalizes you for working harder than somebody else, that is unfair. If you save your money but retire with the same pension as a free-spending neighbor, that is also unfair.;Arthur C. Brooks;government 30270;The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.;William Ellery Channing;government 30271;Wherever magistrates were appointed from among those who complied with the injunctions of the laws, Socrates considered the government to be an aristocracy.;Xenophon;government 30272;The Imperial German Government will not expect the Government of the United States to omit any word or any act necessary to the performance of its sacred duty of maintaining the rights of the United States and its citizens and of safeguarding their free exercise and enjoyment.;William Jennings Bryan;government 30273;Good government is the outcome of private virtue.;John Jay Chapman;government 30274;Our citizens are tired of big government raising their taxes and cooking up new ways to micromanage their lives, our citizens are tired of big government killing jobs with their do-gooder policies. In short the people are Fed Up!;Rick Perry;government 30275;Conservatives are winning offices, and champions of big government are cleaning out their desks right now.;Rick Perry;government 30276;America's greatness is not found in the size of its government. America's greatness resides in the hearts and the minds of the people.;Rick Perry;government 30277;Morals are in all countries the result of legislation and government they are not African or Asian or European: they are good or bad.;Denis Diderot;government 30278;Public confidence in the integrity of the Government is indispensable to faith in democracy and when we lose faith in the system, we have lost faith in everything we fight and spend for.;Adlai E. Stevenson;government 30279;History proves that all dictatorships, all authoritarian forms of government are transient. Only democratic systems are not transient. Whatever the shortcomings, mankind has not devised anything superior.;Vladimir Putin;government 30280;The government is not your salvation. The government is not your road to prosperity. Hard work, education will take you far beyond what any government program can ever promise.;Mia Love;government 30281;Folks, this government isn't too big to fail, it's too big to succeed.;Sarah Palin;government 30282;Every government must consider the security of the country. That is just part of the responsibilities of any government. But true security can only come out of unity within a country where there are so many ethnic nationalities.;Aung San Suu Kyi;government 30283;All that a good government aims at... is to add no unnecessary and artificial aid to the force of its own unavoidable consequences, and to abstain from fortifying and accumulating social inequality as a means of increasing political inequalities.;James F. Cooper;government 30284;There is something fundamentally unfair about a government that takes away so much of people's money, power, and personal control while telling them that life will be better as a result.;Steve Forbes;government 30285;I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.;Oliver Cromwell;government 30286;If I had been under ObamaCare, and a beaurocrat had been trying to tell me when I could get that CT scan, that would have delayed my treatment. I was able to get the treatment as fast as I could based upon my timetable, and not the government's timetable. That's what saved my life.;Herman Cain;government 30287;I am often asked if, when I was secretary, I had problems with foreign men. That is not who I had problems with, because I arrived in a very large plane that said United States of America. I had more problems with the men in our own government.;Madeleine Albright;government 30288;I wasn't a normal professor. I had worked in government. I hadn't written nine zillion books. I was a hands-on professor.;Madeleine Albright;government 30289;The measure of a man is not how great his faith is, but how great his love is. We must not let government programs disconnect our souls from each other.;J. C. Watts;government 30290;Every American, regardless of their background, has the right to live free of unwarranted government intrusion. Repealing the worst provisions of the Patriot Act will reign in this gross abuse of power and restore to everyone our basic Constitutional rights.;Pete Stark;government 30291;The conservative movement today is like that tall ship with its proud captain: strong, accomplished but veering off course into the dangerous and uncharted waters of big government republicanism.;Mike Pence;government 30292;It is unfortunate that Americans are no longer aware of what the constitution says and what their rights are. Because of that, we are often very passive about what happens when the government violates those rights.;James Bovard;government 30293;The fundamental purpose of government is to protect its citizens.;Arlen Specter;government 30294;The relationships that people have - that are sexual, psychological, emotional - these relationships are not open to supervision by parents, schools, churches, or government. Nobody has any right to intervene at all in any kind of relationship like that.;Madalyn Murray O'Hair;government 30295;The thought about Republicans is, we're supposed to be Jeffersonian. That government governs the best that governs the least.;Pat Robertson;government 30296;To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.;Louis D. Brandeis;government 30297;A world in which government is burdened by historic debt, philanthropy has limited resources, and the private sector is only interested in its own personal gain is simply unsustainable.;Simon Mainwaring;government 30298;Corporations often partner with government after natural disasters, as many companies did in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina in 2005. As a rule, however, long-term civic/corporate partnerships are still rare .But this need not remain the status quo, as many opportunities are available for such partnerships.;Simon Mainwaring;government 30299;The United States is at a critical juncture in time. Our government is riddled with historic debt, and the limited resources of philanthropic and non-profit efforts cannot meet the scale of social challenges we face with necessary force.;Simon Mainwaring;government 30300;It is time for corporate America to become 'the third pillar' of social change in our society, complementing the first two pillars of government and philanthropy. We need the entire private sector to begin committing itself not just to making profits, but to fulfilling higher and larger purposes by contributing to building a better world.;Simon Mainwaring;government 30301;Non-disclosure in the Internet Age is quickly perceived as a breach of trust. Government, corporations and each of us as individuals must recalibrate how we live and share our lives appropriate to the information now available and the expectations of others.;Simon Mainwaring;government 30302;It is the duty of government to make it difficult for people to do wrong, easy to do right.;William E. Gladstone;government 30303;I don't believe that government is good at picking technology, particularly technology that is changing. By the time you get it done and go through democracy, it's so outdated.;Michael Bloomberg;government 30304;The average Nigerian person has come to reconcile himself with the fact that his or her social progress remain essentially in his or her hands in collaboration with other fellow Nigerians and not merely relying on what government alone could provide for him or her.;Ibrahim Babangida;government 30305;If you think of yourselves as helpless and ineffectual, it is certain that you will create a despotic government to be your master. The wise despot, therefore, maintains among his subjects a popular sense that they are helpless and ineffectual.;Frank Herbert;government 30306;You can't have it both ways. You can't tell me that you're taxed enough already, and that you want constitutional government and then in the next breath say, 'Bring me home some bacon.' The pig has been picked clean.;Rand Paul;government 30307;In Michigan, a liberal democrat raised taxes and kept their government programs at the same level. And guess what? Their economy continued into the toilet, it continued down.;Rick Perry;government 30308;This administration in Washington that's in power now clearly believes that government is not only the answer to every need, but it's the most qualified to make the most central decisions for every American in every area.;Rick Perry;government 30309;Our goal is to displace the entrenched powers in Washington, restore the rightful balance between the state and federal government.;Rick Perry;government 30310;When the good lord calls you home, the government ought not come get your home.;Rick Perry;government 30311;President Obama's call for nearly a half-trillion dollars in more government stimulus when America has more than $14 trillion in debt is guided by his mistaken belief that we can spend our way to prosperity.;Rick Perry;government 30312;Americans want government that is leaner, more efficient, and less intrusive into their personal lives.;Rick Perry;government 30313;Who can be against progress, after all? But it's a fraudulent use of the word - because for the Progressive, progress is marked not be how free you are, but how much government can 'do' for you.;Rick Perry;government 30314;It is through states that the American people get the job done every day, often in spite of a deeply flawed bureaucratic federal government.;Rick Perry;government 30315;We believe in government involvement that leads to independence: good schools, quality roads and the best health care.;Rick Perry;government 30316;The benefits of education and of useful knowledge, generally diffused through a community, are essential to the preservation of a free government.;Sam Houston;government 30317;People know something has gone terribly wrong with our government and it has gotten so far off track. But people also know that there is nothing wrong in America that a good old-fashioned election can't fix.;Sarah Palin;government 30318;New York State is upside down and backwards high taxes and low performance. The New York State government was at one time a national model. Now, unfortunately, it's a national disgrace. Sometimes, the corruption in Albany could even make Boss Tweed blush.;Andrew Cuomo;government 30319;Too often government responds to the whispers of lobbyists before the cries of the people.;Andrew Cuomo;government 30320;I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood. There's a relationship to government about knights.;Harold Pinter;government 30321;And we can celebrate when we have a government that has earned back the trust of the people it serves... when we have a government that honors our Constitution and stands up for the values that have made America, America: economic freedom, individual liberty, and personal responsibility.;John Boehner;government 30322;President Reagan was elected on the promise of getting government off the backs of the people and now he demands that government wrap itself around the waists of the people.;Ralph Nader;government 30323;Up against the corporate government, voters find themselves asked to choose between look-alike candidates from two parties vying to see who takes the marching orders from their campaign paymasters and their future employers. The money of vested interest nullifies genuine voter choice and trust.;Ralph Nader;government 30324;Well, we lost a lot of our independence already. We are dependent on China for credit. We are dependent on Middle Eastern countries for energy supplies. And many Americans are dependent on the government for their income, health care, education of their children, food stamps.;Jim DeMint;government 30325;The three great ends which a statesman ought to propose to himself in the government of a nation, are one, Security to possessors two, facility to acquirers and three, hope to all.;Samuel Taylor Coleridge;government 30326;The vast amount of waste and sheer stupidity in government - from the Pentagon to the Food and Drug Administration - could fill committee agendas for years.;Tom Coburn;government 30327;Ours is a government of checks and balances. The Mafia and crooked businessmen make out checks, and the politicians and other compromised officials improve their bank balances.;Steve Allen;government 30328;Democrats believe that the federal government is not our enemy, it's our partner.;George McGovern;government 30329;Every time the government grows we lose more of who we are.;Glenn Beck;government 30330;Candidly, I believe most corporations actually don't mind big government.;Rick Santorum;government 30331;When a nation is over-reliant on one or two commodities like oil or precious minerals, corrupt government ministers and their dodgy associates hoard profits and taxes instead of properly allocating them to schools and hospitals.;Bono;government 30332;The goal to strive for is a poor government but a rich people.;Andrew Johnson;government 30333;I think it true that, you know, sometimes things start to change even before a government changes and, actually, I think you can begin to see even the Labour machine beginning to understand that it has become over-reliant on targets and processes, that local governments have been over-bossed and bullied.;David Cameron;government 30334;I don't believe you can find any evidence of the fact that I have changed government policy solely because of a contribution.;William J. Clinton;government 30335;My philosophy is not a bean-counting, accounting 'look at this.' It is a philosophy that smaller government is better government, and government that is closer to the people is best of all.;John Bolton;government 30336;Romney is right that the Obama vision is too centered on government. But his is too centered on the promotion of business and wealth creation at the expense of everything else.;John Podhoretz;government 30337;Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate.;John Podhoretz;government 30338;The thing is, Obama is right that it would be a calamity for the government to default on its debt by not meeting its obligations. Such a thing has never happened and can't be allowed to happen.;John Podhoretz;government 30339;By the time Obama came into office, Washington had already agreed over a period of a few weeks to a $700 billion government infusion into the world banking system. Nothing of the sort had ever been done before, and it was done spit spot with very little national debate.;John Podhoretz;government 30340;Institutions - government, churches, industries, and the like - have properly no other function than to contribute to human freedom and in so far as they fail, on the whole, to perform this function, they are wrong and need reconstruction.;Charles Horton Cooley;government 30341;We are watching industries crumble, Wall Street firms disappear, unemployment spike, and unprecedented government intervention. And our designated opinion leaders want to know: Is Obama up this week? Is he down? And is his leadership style more like Bill Clinton's, or Abraham Lincoln's?;Thomas Frank;government 30342;The government lied about inventing the HIV virus as a means of genocide against people of color. The government lied.;Jeremiah Wright;government 30343;I hate Iran. I hate the Iranian government. It's a cruel and evil government.;Doris Lessing;government 30344;The soldiers never explained to the government when an Indian was wronged, but reported the misdeeds of the Indians.;Geronimo;government 30345;I ran for president in order to be able to try to change Washington D.C. from the inside. Our federal government is broken.;Herman Cain;government 30346;Machiavelli's teaching would hardly have stood the test of Parliamentary government, for public discussion demands at least the profession of good faith.;Lord Acton;government 30347;I've always been about less government.;Kelly Clarkson;government 30348;The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the Government of Reasons to place our Subject in a Right Light, and excite our Hearers to a due consideration of it.;Mary Astell;government 30349;The chief duty of government is to keep the peace and stand out of the sunshine of the people.;James A. Garfield;government 30350;Man, I don't want to have nothing to do with computers. I don't want the government in my business.;Erykah Badu;government 30351;Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.;Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.;government 30352;The guy keeps making speeches about redistribution and maybe we ought to do something to businesses that don't invest, their holding too much money. We haven't heard that kind of talk except from pure socialists. Everybody's afraid of the government and there's no need soft peddling it, it's the truth. It is the truth.;Steve Wynn;government 30353;Higher taxes is the road to ruin. We must and we will shrink our government, and that means making some tough choices, tightening our belts.;Chris Christie;government 30354;I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government.;George McGovern;government 30355;A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.;Al Gore;government 30356;The public is upset. If they haven't lost their job, they know somebody that has. If they haven't lost their house, they know somebody that has. What do you do? When something's wrong, it's government's job to fix it, it must be government that's responsible for causing it.;Michael Bloomberg;government 30357;Whatever you may think of the proposed mosque and community center, lost in the heat of the debate has been a basic question: Should government attempt to deny private citizens the right to build a house of worship on private property based on their particular religion?;Michael Bloomberg;government 30358;Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.;Michael Bloomberg;government 30359;We just put General Motors in the hands of people who can't even run our own government.;Glenn Beck;government 30360;I cannot think of any circumstances in which a government can go to war without the support of parliament.;Tony Blair;government 30361;In government you carry each hope each disillusion. And in politics it's always about the next challenge.;Tony Blair;government 30362;The Republican form of government is the highest form of government: but because of this it requires the highest type of human nature, a type nowhere at present existing.;Herbert Spencer;government 30363;Old forms of government finally grow so oppressive that they must be thrown off even at the risk of reigns of terror.;Herbert Spencer;government 30364;One side of the American psyche wants smaller government, lower taxes, and more choices for individuals, even if those choices increase risk. The other wants a strong social safety net to protect the weakest among us, even if it costs more to minimize risk.;Ron Fournier;government 30365;I do not intend to dispute in any way the need for defence cuts and the need for government spending cuts in general. I do not share a not in my backyard approach to government spending reductions.;Stephen Harper;government 30366;The government can only be brought down because it alienates several parties in the House.;Stephen Harper;government 30367;Whether Canada ends up as o-ne national government or two national governments or several national governments, or some other kind of arrangement is, quite frankly, secondary in my opinion.;Stephen Harper;government 30368;Canadians know that the promise of a recession didn't happen because of anything we did here. If you look at all the causes of the recession, problems in mortgage markets, the problems in the banking sector, the problems in government finance in countries like Greece, none of those problems were in present Canada.;Stephen Harper;government 30369;Well, you know, I - again, even in the context of BP, I wonder about this government's priorities. The federal government's top priority right now should be the cleanup. And BP certainly has done so many things wrong. They need to be held to account.;Carly Fiorina;government 30370;But ours was intended to be a citizen government. It is what of, by and for the people means. And when our most important issue in California is the creation of jobs, I think it's quite helpful to have someone in the U.S. Senate or in the governor's seat who actually knows where jobs come from.;Carly Fiorina;government 30371;We need more transparency and accountability in government so that people know how their money is being spent. That means putting budgets online, putting legislation online.;Carly Fiorina;government 30372;The truth is in California you can't build a new manufacturing facility, and businesses are leaving in droves because of bad government policy.;Carly Fiorina;government 30373;It's the federal government's job to secure the border.;Carly Fiorina;government 30374;Whatever government is not a government of laws, is a despotism, let it be called what it may.;Daniel Webster;government 30375;It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.;Walter Lippmann;government 30376;If it were not for the government, we should have nothing to laugh at in France.;Nicolas Chamfort;government 30377;I am very much opposed to abortion personally. But I don't think it is the government's rule.;Arlen Specter;government 30378;Where might is mixed with wit, there is too good an accord in a government.;Elizabeth I;government 30379;But I think it's up to a local congregation to determine whether or not a marriage should be blessed of God. And it shouldn't be up to the government.;Tony Campolo;government 30380;President Bush once said that marriage is a sacred institution and should be reserved for the union of one man and one woman. If this is the case - and most Americans would agree with him on this - then I have to ask: Why is the government at all involved in marrying people?;Tony Campolo;government 30381;I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.;Tony Campolo;government 30382;If marriage really is a sacred institution, then why is the government controlling it, especially in a nation that affirms separation of church and state?;Tony Campolo;government 30383;From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.;Tony Campolo;government 30384;After-school tutoring programs, care for the elderly, shelters for the homeless, disaster relief work, and a variety of other services would all benefit from government funding.;Tony Campolo;government 30385;Getting the government to put money into social programs run by religious institutions is a practice that started during the Clinton years, when Bill Clinton advocated the AmeriCorps program.;Tony Campolo;government 30386;Clinton's successor in the White House, George W. Bush, was committed to expanding government spending for faith-based initiatives.;Tony Campolo;government 30387;A tiny and closed fraternity of privileged men, elected by no one, and enjoying a monopoly sanctioned and licensed by government.;Spiro T. Agnew;government 30388;I have no doubt that the government of this great nation will work with its people to lead New Orleans and the Gulf Coast back to an enlightened, proud, safe part of the world.;Harry Connick, Jr.;government 30389;Well, again, a gun sale database is just trying to get the Department of Justice to keep track of the guns that they're purchasing and supplying to drug dealers and murderers. I mean, wow. Come on, let's get the government under control before we start restricting the rights of - innocent citizens.;John Mica;government 30390;I work for a Government I despise for ends I think criminal.;John Maynard Keynes;government 30391;Well, I have a CBE and I accepted it with glee because it's not bestowed on you by the royal family, it's not bestowed on you by the government, you have to be nominated by the public.;Rod Stewart;government 30392;Of the various forms of government which have prevailed in the world, an hereditary monarchy seems to present the fairest scope for ridicule.;Edward Gibbon;government 30393;I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions.;Vaclav Havel;government 30394;Well, I thought the deal was, when you went to work for the government you weren't supposed to make money!;Joe Biden;government 30395;Our future cannot depend on the government alone. The ultimate solutions lie in the attitudes and the actions of the American people.;Joe Biden;government 30396;This is a generation weaned on Watergate, and there is no presumption of innocence and no presumption of good intentions. Instead, there is a presumption that, without relentless scrutiny, the government will misbehave.;Dee Dee Myers;government 30397;Television of course actually started in Britain in 1936, and it was a monopoly, and there was only one broadcaster and it operated on a license which is not the same as a government grant.;David Attenborough;government 30398;What the Founding Fathers created in the Constitution is the most magnificent government on the face of the Earth, and the reason is this: because it was intended to preserve the American society and the American spirit, not to transform it or destroy it.;Mark Levin;government 30399;It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.;Wendell Willkie;government 30400;The Constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.;William O. Douglas;government 30401;Concerns about the size and role of government are what seem to leave reformers stammering and speechless in town-hall meetings. The right wants to have a debate over fundamental principles elected Democrats seem incapable of giving it to them.;Thomas Frank;government 30402;Government is, by its very nature, a destroyer of liberties the Obama administration, specifically, is promising to interfere with the economy and the health care system so profoundly that Washington will soon have us all in chains.;Thomas Frank;government 30403;Under the administration of George W. Bush, you will recall, federal spending grew pretty significantly. At the same time, the number of people directly employed by the federal government shrank. One of the factors that explained the difference was contracting.;Thomas Frank;government 30404;Our laws governing lobbying and campaign contributions have struck the right balance between the wishes of the people and those of private industry, so why are we so quick to doubt that the same great results can be achieved by putting the government's justice-dealing branch on the same market-based course?;Thomas Frank;government 30405;We have mountain of debt that isn't going away and all the problems are here to stay, and anybody who tells you that is a good thing ought to get out of the business of helping the government down the road.;Rick Santelli;government 30406;Women ought to have representatives, instead of being arbitrarily governed without any direct share allowed them in the deliberations of government.;Mary Wollstonecraft;government 30407;The Right's view of government and the Left's view of big business are both correct.;Robert Anton Wilson;government 30408;Government is necessary for our survival. We need government in order to survive. The Founding Fathers created a special place for government. It is called the Constitution.;Michael Badnarik;government 30409;In a democracy, citizens pass judgment on their government, and if they are kept in the dark about what their government is doing, they cannot be in a position to make well-grounded decisions.;Peter Singer;government 30410;I believed the only thing that could turn around this government spending and mounting debt would be if the people rose up.;Jim DeMint;government 30411;The corporations don't have to lobby the government anymore. They are the government.;Jim Hightower;government 30412;If the law is upheld only by government officials, then all law is at an end.;Herbert Hoover;government 30413;A government must not waiver once it has chosen it's course. It must not look to the left or right but go forward.;Otto von Bismarck;government 30414;The government's War on Poverty has transformed poverty from a short-term misfortune into a career choice.;Harry Browne;government 30415;Government is force, pure and simple. There's no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society - people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily.;Harry Browne;government 30416;I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.;William Hague;government 30417;I think Britain would be alright, if only we had a different Government.;William Hague;government 30418;It is the mission of the next Conservative Government to build the Responsible Society.;William Hague;government 30419;At a time of such hope and optimism in the Middle East, we cannot let the Libyan government violate every principle of international law and human rights with impunity.;William Hague;government 30420;Obviously a Conservative government will always leave taxes lower than they have been under Labour. Those things go with the territory of the Conservative Party.;William Hague;government 30421;I think the way things have been left after Iraq is that people won't believe the Government of the day, so they have to know that lessons have been learnt and that all political parties and people, whether they were for or against the invasion of Iraq, have learnt lessons.;William Hague;government 30422;I've been in and out of Wall Street since 1949, and I've never seen the type of animosity between government and Wall Street. And I'm not sure where it comes from, but I suspect it's got to do with a general schism in this society which is really becoming ever more destructive.;Alan Greenspan;government 30423;Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes go up or down government raises taxes or lowers them. But Democrats will not let the words 'abortion' or 'tax hikes' pass their lips.;Ann Coulter;government 30424;Also, when you escape a Communist regime, you treasure liberty and you understand that as government and state expand, liberty must contract.;Dennis Prager;government 30425;For a country to have a great writer is like having a second government. That is why no regime has ever loved great writers, only minor ones.;Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn;government 30426;Our government declared that it is conducting some kind of great reforms. In reality, no real reforms were begun and no one at any point has declared a coherent programme.;Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn;government 30427;Great re

Alan Dershowitz

It matters enormously to a successful democratic society like ours that we have three branches of government, each with some independence and some control over the other two. That's set out in the Constitution.

The Establishment Clause prohibits government from making adherence to a religion relevant in any way to a person's standing in the political community.

I believe that for the small numbers of Jewish people in the United States, they exercise a tremendous amount of influence on the affairs of government.

Half the states have stopped making civics and government a requirement for high school. Half.

You have citizens who don't understand how government works and they're kind of soured on it. All they do is criticize. They have no idea that they can make things happen.

We have a complex system of government. You have to teach it to every generation.

Today we must make a pact with each other to end this reckless conduct with the people's government.

I want the government to provide the military so we don't get invaded by somebody and destroyed. I want the government to provide the roads so I can get from point A to B. In terms of taking care of my day to day needs, I want to do that myself. I want my community to do that.

People spending more of their own money on routine health care would make the system more competitive and transparent and restore the confidence between the patients and the doctors without government rationing.

Health care is one-sixth of our economy. If the government can control that, they can control just about everything. We need to understand what is going on, because there are much more economic models that can be used to give us good health care than what we have now.

The difference in golf and government is that in golf you can't improve your lie.

This is a country for, of, and by the people not for, of, and by the government. If we turn it over to them we cannot complain about what they're doing because this is a natural course of men and we have to hold their feet to the fire.

Nobody is starving on the streets. We've always taken care of them. We take care of our own we always have. It is not the government's responsibility.

All of us should have free choice when it comes to patriotic displays... a government wisely acting within its bounds will earn loyalty and respect from its citizens. A government dare not demand the same.

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job?

What the world needs is a small, compact, flexible fusion technology that could make electricity where and when it is needed. The existing fusion program is leading to a huge source of centralized power, at a price that nobody except a government can afford.

The government invented the Internet.

The bringing-about of order is the first and fundamental task of government. We accept limits on our rights for the sake of a larger social compact all the time.

The fact is that America has been at her most prosperous when government and the private sector have been not at war, but in a wary, if often underplayed, alliance. History is unmistakable on this point.

History tells us that America does best when the private sector is energetic and entrepreneurial and the government is attentive and engaged. Who among us, really, would, looking back, wish to edit out either sphere at the entire expense of the other?

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

Let's be honest about this the liberal agenda with failed stimulus plans and government entitlement programs is crippling our economy and our quality of life.

Power without principle is barren, but principle without power is futile. This is a party of government, and I will lead it as a party of government.

Where there is little or no public opinion, there is likely to be bad government, which sooner or later becomes autocratic government.

The Framers of the Bill of Rights did not purport to 'create' rights. Rather, they designed the Bill of Rights to prohibit our Government from infringing rights and liberties presumed to be preexisting.

First of all, I can't forget my first responsibility - which is to be the Leader of the Opposition and that's to provide an alternative government.

I don't believe an Alliance government should sponsor legislation on abortion or a referendum on abortion.

In any crass political calculation, drilling for oil will always win more votes than putting a price on carbon. But if I recall what I was taught in fifth-grade American government class, we elect presidents to do more than crass political calculations.

If you want to be a government in a minority Parliament, you have to work with other people.

There is nothing anyone can do anyway. The public has no power. The government knows I'm not a criminal. The parole board knows I'm not a criminal. The judge knows I'm not a criminal.

It's the government's obligation to look really to the third parties to get the support to govern.

The Leader of the Opposition's constitutional obligation - the obligation to Parliament - it's the reason we did the merger! - is to make sure Canadians have an alternative for government.

We have in this country a federal government that increasingly is engaged in trying to determine which business, which regions, which industries will succeed, which will not through a whole range of economic development, regional development corporate subsidization programs.

We should have been there shoulder to shoulder with our allies. Our concern is the instability of our government as an ally. We are playing again with national and global security matters.

We'll support the government on issues if it's essential to the country but our primary responsibility is not to prop up the government, our responsibility is to provide an opposition and an alternative government for Parliament and for Canadians.

What the government has to do, if it wants to govern for any length of time, is it must appeal primarily to the third parties in the House of Commons to get them to support it.

We've got to see a state where the Afghan government can handle its own day-to-day security.

I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.

I forget what the relevant American rate is, but I can tell you that our goal is to have a combined federal-provincial corporate tax rate of no more than 25 percent. We're on target to do that by 2012. We will have significantly - by a significant margin the lowest corporate tax rates in the G-7, and that's our - our government's objective.

Look, I think the worst case scenario is obvious. I think first of all it doesn't work for very long. It's an unstable government that raises taxes and destroys the image we're building for Canada as a strong place to invest.

The government's desire to expand global trade may be understandable, but we mustn't give away too much. We must tell our elected representatives to at least delay the Canada-China FIPA until it has been examined more thoroughly, and to reconsider the inclusion of investor-state arbitration mechanisms in all trade deals.

Government cannot do it all. As we work hard to break welfare dependency and get young people ready for the labour market, we need businesses to give them a chance and not just fall back on labour from abroad.

All too often, government's response to social breakdown has been a classic case of 'patching' - a case of handing money out, containing problems and limiting the damage but, in doing so, supporting - even reinforcing - dysfunctional behaviour.

I think if you have a two-story office and you hire someone who's handicapped, it might be reasonable to let him have an office on the first floor rather than the government saying you have to have a $100,000 elevator.

Does the owner of the restaurant own his restaurant? Or does the government own his restaurant?

People in government and public life are being kicked around at a high rate of speed.

When people don't understand that the government doesn't have their interests in mind, they're more susceptible to go to war.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

The lies the government and media tell are amplifications of the lies we tell ourselves. To stop being conned, stop conning yourself.

National security is the first duty of government but we are also committed to reversing the substantial erosion of civil liberties.

I thought I was benefiting the Indians as well as the government, by taking them all over the United States, and giving them a correct idea of the customs, life, etc., of the pale faces, so that when they returned to their people they could make known all they had seen.

My mother's sympathies were strongly with the Union. She knew that war was bound to come, but so confident was she in the strength of the Federal Government that she devoutly believed that the struggle could not last longer than six months at the utmost.

Look at our Lords disciples. One denied Him one doubted Him one betrayed Him. If our Lord couldn't have perfection, how are you going to have it in city government?

This is how psychiatry has functioned-as a kind of property arm of the government, who can put you away if your husband doesn't like you.

People who relieve others of their money with guns are called robbers. It does not alter the immorality of the act when the income transfer is carried out by government.

Common sense tells us that the government's attempts to solve large problems more often create new ones. Common sense also tells us that a top-down, one-size-fits-all plan will not improve the workings of a nationwide health-care system that accounts for one-sixth of our economy.

Our government needs to adopt a pro-market agenda that doesn't pick winners and losers, but it invites competition and it levels the playing field for everyone.

It is not the constitutional prerogative of the Government to determine needs.

The government, for example, has determined that black people (somehow) have fewer abilities than white people, and, so, must be given certain preferences. Anyone acquainted with both black and white people knows this assessment is not only absurd but monstrous. And yet it is the law.

The Founders recognized that Government is quite literally a necessary evil, that there must be opposition, between its various branches, and between political parties, for these are the only ways to temper the individual's greed for power and the electorates' desires for peace by submission to coercion or blandishment.

If, indeed, a firearm were more dangerous to its possessors than to potential aggressors, would it not make sense for the government to arm all criminals, and let them accidentally shoot themselves? Is this absurd? Yes, and yet the government, of course, is arming criminals.

Rarely in modern times has there been such a revolution in commercial sentiment as occurred in 2008, or such a display in government and business of panic and helplessness.

Nature is not simply a technical or economical resource, and human beings are not mere numbers. To suggest that one can somehow align all the squabbling institutions of science, environmental management, government and diplomacy in an alliance of convenience to regulate the global climate seems to me optimistic.

I am the government.

I think the government has to reposition environment on top of their national and international priorities.

The honest truth is that if this government were to propose the massacre of the first-born, it would still have no difficulty in getting it through the Commons.

In addition to their power over government based on government financing and personal influence, bankers could steer governments in ways they wished them to go by other pressures.

Most of the press is in league with government, or with the status quo.

A government is invigorated when each of us is willing to participate in shaping the future of this nation.

I never knew a government yet that wanted to do anything.

The Israeli government has proved over the past year its commitment to peace, both in words and deeds. By contrast, the Palestinians are posing preconditions for renewing the diplomatic process in a way they have not done over the course of 16 years.

I stand before you today because this vision of government as the engine of opportunity is what I believe in.

A good government may, indeed, redress the grievances of an injured people but a strong people can alone build up a great nation.

Power must be used, but it must be tempered by soul-searching and the recognition of our human capacity for error. That is the maxim that should inform our approach to every challenge, from reforming state government to engaging in foreign affairs.

Gandhi has asked that the British Government should walk out of India and leave the Indian people to settle differences among themselves, even if it means chaos and confusion.

I love and always have loved policy issues and trying to have an impact on the issues that are out there. I cherish my years in government. I have loved my participation at CNN, at Current writing teaching. Where I will go next, I will have to sort out.

My politics are of a practical kind - the integrity of the country, the supremacy of the Federal government, an honorable peace, or none at all.

Aggression is simply another name for government.

For me, journalism has been more a matter of projecting a particular approach to covering policies, to covering issues. It was a continuation of what I tried to do in government.

I have long said there are three distinct groups under the GOP's tent: theological warriors, who want to impose their social views on the rest of society Tea Party zealots, who say with a straight face that they want the government to get out of their Medicare and remnants of the pro-business moderates.

We are all used to paying a sales tax when we buy things - almost 9 percent here in New York City. The application of this concept to the financial sector could solve our need for revenue, bring some sanity back into the financial sector, and give us a way to raise the revenue we need to run the government in a fiscally responsible way.

Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.

The reality of split government puts a premium on creativity within the administration. President Obama needs to put the right people in charge of the agencies and then have them push the bounds of administrative power to change policy through those agencies. President Obama has a pretty good track record of this.

You can't have a situation in which companies proceed on a permanent basis relying only on cash from the government.

As more people rely on government programs, the harder it becomes to conduct the necessary reforms to preserve them to help our society's most vulnerable.

A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity.

I'm not driven to get back into politics. It's not on my top five things to do before I die, but saying that, I may be in politics in the next year or the next ten years. I've been on the front line for 12 years, four in state government, eight on the national level.

I believe that government is the servant of the people and not their master.

I love my government not least for the extent to which it leaves me alone.

Government is either organized benevolence or organized madness its peculiar magnitude permits no shading.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.

Urban America has been redlined. Government has not offered tax incentives for investment, as it has in a dozen foreign markets. Banks have redlined it. Industries have moved out, they've redlined it. Clearly, to break up the redlining process, there must be incentives to green-line with hedges against risk.

We've been so preoccupied with getting the government to behave in a fair and democratic way, we were not able to focus on the private sector where most of the jobs are, where most of the wealth and opportunities are.

We oppose the reactionary policies of the U.S. government but we do not oppose the American people. We want to have many good friends in the United States.

Is there any wonder why we are in such big trouble? Any question why the people don't trust their government anymore, and demand a change?

And I just think that we're at a point in our economic life here in our state - and - and, candidly, across the country, where increased taxes is just the wrong way to go. The people of our state are not convinced that state government, county government, local government has done all they can with the money we already give them, rather than the money that we have before.

Someone has to stay on the line and say, no, we can do this by cutting spending and reducing the size of government. That's what I was committed to doing.

Now, in New Jersey, we have more government workers per square mile than any state in America. But since I've been governor we now have fewer people on the state payroll at any time since Christie Whitman left office in January 2001. That's the right direction, Mr. President, not the wrong direction.

Attending that Convention and talking with those people and many others convinced me that I should become a blogger in my efforts to reform the government and uphold the integrity of the Constitution and the laws made in furtherance thereof.

Nothing is so galling to a people not broken in from the birth as a paternal, or, in other words, a meddling government, a government which tells them what to read, and say, and eat, and drink and wear.

A government is the only vessel that leaks from the top.

I believe in the America people's ability to govern themselves. If government would just get out of the way and allow them to lead their lives as they choose, they will succeed.

I strive never to forget the real world consequences of my decisions on individuals, businesses and government.

We must force the government to stop the bird migration. We must shoot all birds, field all our men and troops... and force migratory birds to stay where they are.

I honestly do not know if civil disobedience has any effect on the government. I can promise you it has a great effect on the person who chooses to do it.

As far as your personal goals are and what you actually want to do with your life, it should never have to do with the government. You should never depend on the government for your retirement, your financial security, for anything.

While approximately one in every 400 children and adolescents have Type I diabetes recent Government reports indicate that one in every three children born in 2000 will suffer from obesity, which as noted is a predominant Type II precursor.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

We are losing sight of civility in government and politics. Debate and dialogue is taking a back seat to the politics of destruction and anger and control. Dogma has replaced thoughtful discussion between people of differing views.

Until the control of the issue of currency and credit is restored to government and recognized as its most conspicuous and sacred responsibility, all talks of the sovereignty of Parliament and of democracy is idle and futile.

Government in the U.S. today is a senior partner in every business in the country.

If you're an old pro, you know how well you're doing when you're doing it, and your inner government spanks you if you're not doing well.

Britain, relative to the U.S., is a highly secular society. Philanthropy alone cannot fill the gap left by government cutbacks. And the sources of altruism go deep into our evolutionary past.

A perfect storm is in the making: financial uncertainty, economic downturn, government cuts, rising unemployment and a future that looks less clear the more we try to fathom it.

What creates freedom? A revolution in the streets? Mass protest? Civil war? A change of government? The ousting of the old guard and its replacement by the new? History, more often than not, shows that hopes raised by such events are often dashed, sooner rather than later.

I hate big government, but I really hate a government that doesn't work. So when 'they say we either have to raise taxes or cut core services,' it's actually a 'false choice."

We must make it an imperative duty of our government to protect the gifts which Nature has bestowed on America and to insure the maintenance of a clean, healthy, wholesome environment for our people.

But I don't want massive layoffs of anyone - public or private. We are planning on shrinking government through attrition and reform, not through random pink slips.

We need religion as a guide. We need it because we are imperfect. Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they are sinners can bring to democracy the tolerance it requires in order to survive.

No more distressing moment can ever face a British government than that which requires it to come to a hard, fast and specific decision.

The primary victims of Katrina, those who were given the least help by the government, those rescued last or not at all, were overwhelmingly people of color largely hidden from the mainstream of society.

When government disappears, it's not as if paradise will take its place. When governments are gone, other interests will take their place.

If you join government, calmly make your contribution and move on. Don't go along to get along do your best and when you have to - and you will - leave, and be something else.

If the United States is hit with a weapon of mass destruction that inflicts large casualties, the Constitution will likely be discarded in favor of a military form of government.

I think that if we get back to some basic fundamental principles, we can make sure that we resolve the issues. And I think that that's what the Tea Party was all about. It's getting back to a constitutional conservative government. And that is limited, but it's also effective and efficient. I think that that's what we'll be able to do.

I was determined that no British government should be brought down by the action of two tarts.

The only thing growing faster than the federal government's deficit is Chris Matthews' man-crush on Barack Obama.

It is the duty of Her Majesty's government neither to flap nor to falter.

I'm not a knee-jerk conservative. I passionately believe in free markets and less government, but not to the point of being a libertarian.

Every year the Federal Government wastes billions of dollars as a result of overpayments of government agencies, misuse of government credit cards, abuse of the Federal entitlement programs, and the mismanagement of the Federal bureaucracy.

The UK desperately needs less government and freer markets.

Government is inherently incompetent, and no matter what task it is assigned, it will do it in the most expensive and inefficient way possible.

Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.

Truth is the glue that holds government together.

Our great Republic is a government of laws and not of men. Here, the people rule.

Thankfully, due to the United Kingdom and the commitment of the Westminster government we are able to ensure that money brought in, whether it be from the City of London or from North Sea oil, can be pooled and directed to wherever it is needed most. That is what being in the United Kingdom is all about.

When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'

The American Dream, coupled with government subsidies of utilities and cheap consumer goods courtesy of slave labour somewhere else, has kept the poor huddled masses from rising up.

There is a Western world. There is America. There is Great Britain and Germany and France and Russia and China and other nations. I doubt that there is one country amongst those I mentioned which has a desire to see Iran, with its fundamentalist, Islamic, extremist government, possessing nuclear weapons.

Government itself is founded upon the great doctrine of the consent of the governed, and has its cornerstone in the memorable principle that men are endowed with inalienable rights.

In government offices which are sensitive to the vehemence and passion of mass sentiment public men have no sure tenure. They are in effect perpetual office seekers, always on trial for their political lives, always required to court their restless constituents.

You know, when Republicans were in charge, we doubled the debt. But, now, our concern is the Democrats are in charge and they're tripling the debt. So, really, our concern is that we want smaller government.

We should not have the U.S. government buying stock in American industries - the financial industry or any other industry.

We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.

We Brits print banknotes out in Debden in Essex, and have contracted it out to the private sector. Here in the U.S. it is a government operation right in the heart of Washington next door to the Holocaust Museum.

The American formula for creating business is not to have the government create business.

Everybody in America is going to have to sacrifice to help us rebuild the Gulf Coast. Every government program, every individual, we are all going to have to sacrifice.

It's counterintuitive, but the most divisive arrangement is when the same party controls both Congress and the presidency, a situation encountered in eight of the past 10 years. With government unified under a single party, the minority has the least possible incentive to cooperate with the majority.

You can have a revolution wherever you like, except in a government office even were the world to come to an end, you'd have to destroy the universe first and then government offices.

Unfortunately, corruption is widespread in government agencies and public enterprises. Our political system promotes nepotism and wasting money. This has undermined our legal system and confidence in the functioning of the state. One of the consequences is that many citizens don't pay their taxes.

We campaigned on the fact that we were going to have to take difficult decisions because of the state of the public finances. When we got into government we discovered that actually the public finances were in an even worse state than we thought.

For voters what matters is what government actually delivers for them.

I think for voters what matters is the values that drive the government.

There's much more we can be doing in Parliament, we could be giving more power back to people at local government level, through local referendums.

The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.

We've got a first class leader at the moment. David Cameron is dealing with the issues that he was left by the last government very well indeed.

As long as I don't write about the government, religion, politics, and other institutions, I am free to print anything.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

To Republicans, I humbly suggest that we make it possible for Democrats to give up their quest for redistribution of income and wealth by our acceptance of an appropriate role for government in financing those public goods and services necessary to secure a social safety net below which no American would be allowed to fall.

The banking collapse was caused, more than anything, by bad government policy and the total failure of bad regulation, rather than by greed.

The government deficit is the difference between the amount of money the government spends and the amount it has the nerve to collect.

All Americans value the freedom of speech and the freedom of the press, and I believe this is essential for our continued way of life. But with this freedom comes responsibility. That responsibility has been abdicated here by some in the media and some in the government.

And some of what we're doing in Government even now, some of the welfare reform programs that are helping lone mothers come into work are based on things that were very new under the Labour Government in the eighties.

This Bible is for the government of the people, by the people and for the people.

One of the essential elements of government responsibility is to communicate effectively to the American people, especially in time of a potential terrorist attack or a natural disaster.

All's the government should do is keep the taxes and regulations at a manageable rate, keep a decent standing army and get out of the way.

Government does not have a revenue problem government has a spending problem. Government does not have a revenue problem government has a priority problem. It is time that we begin to fine tune our focus and decide what the priority of government ought to be.

Freedom only for the members of the government, only for the members of the Party - though they are quite numerous - is no freedom at all.

Journalists should denounce government by public opinion polls.

Well, I'm a libertarian conservative, so I believe in limited government/maximum individual freedom.

If I was afraid of being killed, I would never speak out against the government.

My opinion is the greatest reward that any government could get is the approval of the people. If the people are happy and the people are at peace and the government has done something for them, that's the greatest reward I think any government could hope for.

Criticism of government finds sanctuary in several portions of the 1st Amendment. It is part of the right of free speech. It embraces freedom of the press.

The Declaration of Independence says when government fails, the people have the right to replace it. Well, New York State government has failed and the people have the right, indeed the people have the the people have the obligation, to act.

The essential job of government is to facilitate, not frustrate, job development.

I'm in politics. I'm in government, so nothing surprises me.

I don't know people who don't say, boy the government is working better now.

I was elected to come to an incredibly dysfunctional capital and make the government work better, and that's what I'm doing.

If somebody invented cigarettes today, the government would not legalize them.

Our Founding Fathers crafted a constitutional Republic for the first time in the history of the world because they were shaping a form of government that would not have the failures of a democracy in it, but had the representation of democracy in it.

It's dismaying to see the unilateralism that the government is doing.

I almost forgot what it's like to be proud of my government.

So you can say, 'Get Big Government out of here, and don't tell me what to eat,' but when kids are going to school, and they're being fed junk, we're pretty much telling them what to eat, and we're telling them junk is OK.

And on the other hand, we see that the Israeli government is attacking that part of the Palestinian leader.

We're adults. We're the ones who should teach the kids what's good to eat. I don't think the government should ever regulate what we eat at home, but we're feeding them in school with tax dollars. Quite frankly, if my tax dollars are being spent to feed kids, I'd rather feed them better food.

The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate.

My house was bugged. They couldn't find any information on me being a subversive because I happen to love America I just don't like some of the things the government is doing.

If it is wrong for you to take money from someone else who earned it, to take their money by force for your own needs, then it is certainly just as wrong for you to demand that the government step forward and do this dirty work for you.

We cannot improve on the system of government handed down to us by the founders of the Republic. There is no way to improve upon that. But what we can do is to find new ways to implement that system and realize our destiny.

What we have to do is strike a balance between the idea that government should do everything and the idea, the belief, that government ought to do nothing. Strike a balance.

Let's just do what is right for the American people. And those of us who are involved in politics and government know that our responsibility is to the American people, that we have a responsibility to find our common ground, to seek it and to find it.

If you have a government that is elected, they need to do the hard work - because if they don't, they won't be around the next time the ballot box is open.

It's not good for government to tell people that the world owes them a living and that things are free.

Every dollar I can't commit to my company that's paid in taxes is paying a government that I believe is too big and doing way too much that I don't want done.

I was pretty much the government's poster boy for what I had done.

I don't have any problem with government helping entrepreneurs and businesses.

No way, no how did I break into NORAD. That's a complete myth. And I never attempted to access anything considered to be classified government systems.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

For over 30 years, the IRA showed that the British government could not rule Ireland on its own terms.

As President Bush has said on numerous occasions, it is the government's role to create the conditions, the friendly environment, that will attract capital.

I'm a very brave person. I can go to North Vietnam, I can challenge my government, but I can't challenge the man I'm with if means I'm going to end up alone.

My view is that good community management is like having good municipal government: You should be able to have dissenting opinions and so on, freedom of speech, but your grandmother should also be able to walk down the street at night without having to worry about getting mugged.

There's something fundamentally wrong with a system where there's been 17 years of a Tory Government and the people of Scotland have voted Socialist for 17 years. That hardly seems democratic.

The government I led gave ordinary people peace, security, dignity, and opportunity to progress.

In the book I define conservatism, as I believe it is fit upon four categories of principle: respect for The Constitution, respect for life, less government, and personal responsibility.

Now, I learned soon enough, that among the three, two don't trust the third one - the third one is the government. Both industry and unions feel the government is a talking organization and a spending organization.

Two hundred years ago, our Founding Fathers gave us a democracy. It was based upon the simple, yet noble, idea that government derives its validity from the consent of the governed.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Motorists who want to save money on gas will demand and buy more fuel-efficient vehicles. We should not limit their freedom with more government regulations.

I think people are confused about what the Tea Party is. I mean, they were a broad cross-section of Americans who came together concerned about our debt and our spending. And they're interested in constitutional, limited government. And so they're not one group of people. They're thousands of small groups all over the country.

You've got the Democratic Party that now depends on more government spending and actual building the dependence on government in order to increase their political party.

Pretty much at all times music motivates me. How can I say this without sounding in any way proud of myself? Obviously I've always written songs that are critical of our government, and talk about our times. Hopefully you attempt to be timeless while doing it.

The government of Israel doesn't like the kinds of things I say, which puts them into the same category as every other government in the world.

If you want the government off your back, get your hands out of its pockets.

Christmas is a time when kids tell Santa what they want and adults pay for it. Deficits are when adults tell the government what they want - and their kids pay for it.

As an artist I have an even more abiding interest in the compact between the Arts and Government.

We don't walk. We overeat because we've made it easy to overeat. We have fast-food joints on every corner. By the way, the 'we' is all of us. It's not the government. It's all of us doing this together.

I don't consider Americans bullies, but I do consider the American government bullying.

Above all we should not forget that government is an evil, a usurpation upon the private judgement and individual conscience of mankind.

The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so vast as ours are too obvious to be disregarded.

Back in 1983, the United States government approved the release of the first genetically modified organism. In this case, it was a bacteria that prevents frost on food crops.

I feel an independent accountability commission should audit all government services.

We have to attack those things which stand in the way of America progress. And what stands in the way of American progress right now is the federal government.

Pakistan needs to have decentralisation and a good local government system.

There are good people and bad people in all organizations fundamentally however, when you look at the basis of the Tea Party it has nothing to do with race. It has to do with an economic recovery. It has to do with limiting the role of our government in our lives. It has to do with free markets.

The Government and the Parliament, even the House of Lords, will consent to a large increase of electors and men who have not considered the subject fully will imagine they have gained much by the concession.

I think, though, if I had to look at the role of government and what it does in people's lives, I see the EEOC as having much more legitimacy than the others, if properly run.

Americans need never fear their government because of the advantage of being armed, which the Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation.

The labour movement had the best opportunity in 50 years to transform not merely an industrial situation and win an important battle for workers in struggle, but an opportunity to change the government of the day.

Americans accept that gangsters are running the government.

Today it is not big business that we have to fear. It is big government.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

Are we still a country that takes risks, that innovates, that believes anything is possible? Or are we a country that is resigned to whatever liberty the government decides to dish out?

When decisions on nuclear power stations and runways are delayed and the government dilly-dallies, people think they aren't important.

Engineering undergraduates should not be charged fees. They should receive grants, not student loans, and the government will get the money back long-term from increased exports.

You can't fall back on the private sector and say, 'You take care of the nation's banking system.' That's a fundamental function of the government, the Federal Reserve, the Treasury and the FDIC, etc. All of those agencies have a major role to play there.

In the Pentagon Papers case, the government asserted in the Supreme Court that the publication of the material was a threat to national security. It turned out it was not a threat to U.S. security. But even if it had been, that doesn't mean that it couldn't be published.

We all learn in school that the judicial, legislative and executive branches of government must check and balance each other. But other non state institutions must participate in this important system of checks and balances as well. These checking institutions include the academy, the media, religious institutions and NGOs.

Among the weeds choking out growth and good government are the hundreds of boards, commissions, and advisory committees that have sprouted over the years. They devour time, money, and energy far beyond any real contribution they make.

The federal government now spends one of every four dollars in the entire economy. It borrows one of every three dollars it spends. No nation, no entity, large or small, public or private, can thrive, or survive intact, with debts as huge as ours.

We are all in this together. We want to have, I suppose, a single point of entry so that anyone coming near a disability service can get a very complete picture. Government needs to understand that picture, and we need to be able to offer somebody a one-stop shop.

Watergate provides a model case study of the interaction and powers of each of the branches of government. It also is a morality play with a sad and dramatic ending.

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer.

The number of illegal activities were so large that one was bound to come out and lead to the uncovering of the others. Nixon was too willing to use the power of government to settle scores and get even with enemies.

We say to the British government: you have kept those sculptures for almost two centuries. You have cared for them as well as you could, for which we thank you. But now in the name of fairness and morality, please give them back.

Using these unnamed sources, if done properly, carefully and fairly, provides more accountability in government.

I'm very, very concerned about the Bush presidency. I'm worried about the kinds of cuts in domestic programs that mean something to a lot of people, including members of my family, who depend on certain things from the government.

Anyone who saw Nagasaki would suddenly realize that they'd been kept in the dark by the United States government as to what atomic bombs can do.

Many health care providers, particularly physicians in rural and urban areas, are leaving the Government programs because of inadequate reimbursement rates.

I was criticized at some level within the Republican Party by those who say government should not be in the economic development business at all. My response is that the only country I know that doesn't have an economic development plan is Papa New Guinea.

It is unclear exactly how many law enforcement agencies are currently using this capability, but it is reasonable to say that while resource limitations used to discourage the government from tracking you without a good reason, these constraints have largely disappeared.

If the government fails to listen to your demands, then you will decide what is best for you.

If it does not serve the Iraqi people, there are only political means that must be followed to reform the government - a new government that we must give a chance to prove that it is there to serve the people.

I think the American people have become more reliant upon government and less reliant upon themselves and that they now tend to put security ahead of freedom, but I think freedom is the most important aspect of our lives.

Open the way before the new government to prove that it is for serving the people.

We must not tolerate oppressive government or industrial oligarchy in the form of monopolies and cartels.

The U.S. will ignore the opinion of the Iraqi people and it will compose the new government according to its own desires.

I'm interested in the human impact of the giant foot of misplaced government. After all, we encounter it every day.

I don't want the chair of the government because it will be controlled by the U.S. and I don't want to be controlled by the U.S.

Acquire a government over your ideas, that they may come down when they are called, and depart when they are bidden.

I believe the government of the United States should re-examine its policies in the Middle East and adopt a more balanced stance toward the Palestinian cause.

We need the private sector to create jobs. If the government could create jobs Communism would have worked, but it didn't.

I'm against big bureaucracy in Washington making health care decisions. I just have an aversion to bureaucrats. But it's not just government bureaucrats. I don't like HMO bureaucrats and insurance company bureaucrats either.

So it was sort of an odd time because I had been hired, but my paperwork hadn't gone through. So I worked as an intern during the government shutdown, as an intern, but I already had a job.

I decided to run for governor because I got mad... I want to make government more directly accountable to the people.

Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.

There are a lot of good causes out there, but they can't possibly all be served by government.

I clearly believe a lot more than some of my coalition colleagues - Tories - in redistribution and using the tax system for that purpose. I also believe in the government having an active role in the economy, which is having an industrial strategy. I'm not a believer in laissez-faire.

Republicans rarely criticize Obama for lack of empathy - in part because liberals have traditionally been seen as standing up for the weak and the vulnerable. Conservatives can be just as empathetic. But they believe that, in most cases, it's not government's role to be the primary dispenser of empathy.

Love is by far bigger than the government can ever be.

You can't win with some people. If you're not in government, you're criticised for being not serious. If you are in government, you're criticised for wanting power. That's the Labour party's line of attack, and it's a bit ridiculous.

The Left regards the Constitution as defective and outmoded - in part because it impedes the government's ability to control institutions, like churches and families, which stand between the state and individuals.

If you want to change the way your banking system is regulated, if you want to learn the mistakes of what's gone wrong, then you have to change your government.

For wide swaths of training and education there are valuable spillovers which mean that the private sector needs support from the government. That is why I have been so determined to protect and grow apprenticeships and put higher education on a sustainable footing.

I was very happy being a secretary. I loved working for the government. I was very happy with my life.

What the Lib Dems have failed to do is offer any meaningful agenda for government or for power.

One of those promises was to limit the size of government and to have the government serve the people - and not the other way around.

In Scotland, the indication is that for the Westminster elections at least, Labour voters are satisfied with their government.

I promised to empower the taxpayer - instead of a handful of big government union bosses.

The choice between a Labour government and a Tory one is sharpening minds.

These are tough times and under this Tory-led government many people in Manchester are suffering and getting left behind. If elected I will use all my energy, skills, experience and knowledge to stand up for our communities and get things done for the better.

I believe that smaller government is better government. But I also believe that in the areas where government does play a legitimate role, we should demand that it is done better.

As the prospect of a Tory government gets nearer, many traditional Labour voters - some who switched away in recent times and many who stayed at home - seem more determined to prevent that happening.

We are the ones looking out for the middle class. Who do think pays for the endless expansion of government? Its middle class taxpayers. Our reforms protect middle class taxpayers.

As the economy faces such difficulties, more tough questions need to be asked about what the Tories would do if elected. Their ideology of free markets and small government needs challenging. That has to be part of our job.

More people on unemployment benefits is not success in America, fewer people on not because we kicked them off but because they have been able to get a job in the private sector, because government got out of the way.

It's become unfashionable to celebrate political achievement, and Labour achievement even less so. And it's positively uncouth to be proud of something that this Labour government is doing. So, slam me for saying so, but I'm really proud of the NHS.

I think most people believe success in government is how many fewer people are in government, not because you kick them off of benefits like unemployment but they've been able to control their own destiny because private sector employers have created more jobs.

We in the Labour party know better than most that opposition is the easy part. What's more difficult is governing and setting out an agenda for government.

People create jobs, not the government.

Although my seat is a contest between Labour and the Lib Dems, it could well make the difference between a Labour and a Tory government at the next election. In terms of international development, this choice is a very clear one.

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.

God will not look you over for medals degrees or diplomas, but for scars.

A graduation ceremony is an event where the commencement speaker tells thousands of students dressed in identical caps and gowns that 'individuality' is the key to success.

Never go to your high school reunion pregnant or they will think that is all you have done since you graduated.

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.

You are educated. Your certification is in your degree. You may think of it as the ticket to the good life. Let me ask you to think of an alternative. Think of it as your ticket to change the world.

I learned law so well, the day I graduated I sued the college, won the case, and got my tuition back.

It makes little difference how many university courses or degrees a person may own. If he cannot use words to move an idea from one point to another, his education is incomplete.

For a man to attain to an eminent degree in learning costs him time, watching, hunger, nakedness, dizziness in the head, weakness in the stomach, and other inconveniences.

Life is the most exciting opportunity we have. But we have one shot. You graduate from college once, and that's it. You're going out of that nest. And you have to find that courage that's deep, deep, deep in there. Every step of the way.

I always wanted to have my own album released before I graduated from high school.

This man used to go to school with his dog. Then they were separated. His dog graduated!

I was never a Certified Public Accountant. I just had a degree in accounting. It would require passing a test, which I would not have been able to do.

In this outward and physical ceremony we attest once again to the inner and spiritual strength of our Nation. As my high school teacher, Miss Julia Coleman, used to say: 'We must adjust to changing times and still hold to unchanging principles.'

Being considerate of others will take your children further in life than any college degree.

Even though I disagree with many of the changes, when I see the privates graduate at the end of the day, when they walk off that drill field at the end of the ceremony, they are still fine privates outstanding, well motivated privates.

Earlier today, Arnold Schwarzenegger criticized the California school system, calling it disastrous. Arnold says California's schools are so bad that its graduates are willing to vote for me.

When I was going for my graduate degree, I decided I was going to make a feature film as my thesis. That's what I was famous for-that I had my thesis film be a feature film, which was 'You're a Big Boy Now.'

Catholic school graduates exhibit a wide variety of qualities that will not only help them in their careers but also in their family and community lives.

It is soooooo necessary to get the basic skills, because by the time you graduate, undergraduate or graduate, that field would have totally changed from your first day of school.

We had times in '66 and '67 when we would pick up a platoon of privates out of the receiving barracks the week before we even graduated the platoon that we were on!

We don't stop going to school when we graduate.

I'm not impressed by someone's degree... I'm impressed by them making movies.

It is virtually impossible to compete in today's global economy without a college degree.

I first became interested in women and religion when I was one of the few women doing graduate work in Religious Studies at Yale University in the late 1960's.

Everyone has a right to a university degree in America, even if it's in Hamburger Technology.

I got all my work done to graduate in two months and then they were like, I'm sorry, you have to take driver's ed. I just kind of went, Oh, forget it.

I graduated a the top of my class in the '84 Olympic Games I won a gold medal.

I have actually five honorary degrees.

I don't look to find an educated person in the ranks of university graduates, necessarily. Some of the most educated people I know have never been near a university.

I think young writers should get other degrees first, social sciences, arts degrees or even business degrees. What you learn is research skills, a necessity because a lot of writing is about trying to find information.

For students today, only 10 percent of children from working-class families graduate from college by the age of 24 as compared to 58 percent of upper-middle-class and wealthy families.

At the School of Visual Arts in New York, you can get your degree in Net art, which is really a fantastic way of thinking of theater in new ways.

I did get a degree in special education.

When I graduated from Santa Monica High in 1927, I was voted the girl most likely to succeed. I didn't realize it would take so long.

My father, who was from a wealthy family and highly educated, a lawyer, Yale and Columbia, walked out with the benefit of a healthy push from my mother, a seventh grade graduate, who took a typing course and got a secretarial job as fast as she could.

College atheletes used to get a degree in bringing your pencil.

I went to college at the University of Kansas, where I got a degree in political science.

I didn't get my degree at NYU I got it later, they gave me an honourary one.

Some go on to trade schools or get further training for jobs they are interested in. Some go into the arts, some are craftsmen, some take a little time out to travel, and some start their own businesses. But our graduates find and work at what they want to do.

The knowledge of languages was very useful. I have a university degree in foreign languages and literature.

My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.

You must realize that honorary degrees are given generally to people whose SAT scores were too low to get them into schools the regular way. As a matter of fact, it was my SAT scores that led me into my present vocation in life, comedy.

I took three years off. I differentiated myself from the industry. Found my identity - sort of... I haven't graduated yet. I'm not legitimately educated yet, but maybe one day.

In 1858 I received the degree of D. S. from the Lawrence Scientific School, and thereafter remained on the rolls of the university as a resident graduate.

I could be happy doing something like architecture. It would involve another couple of years of graduate school, but that's what I studied in college. That's what I always wanted to do.

I was the first boy in the Kennedy family to graduate from college.

Everybody wants you to do good things, but in a small town you pretty much graduate and get married. Mostly you marry, have children and go to their football games.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

When nearly a third of our high school students do not graduate on time with their peers, we have work to do. We must design our middle and high schools so that no student gets lost in the crowd and disconnected from his or her own potential.

Yeah, I spent about 20 years in a dorm room. It took me a while to graduate.

I teach one semester a year, and this year I'm just teaching one course during that semester, a writing workshop for older students in their late 20s and early 30s, people in our graduate program who are already working on a manuscript and trying to bring it to completion.

I have no problems with private schools. I graduated from one and so did my mother. Private schools are useful and we often use public funds to pay for their infrastructures and other common needs.

Our record number of teenagers must become our record number of high school and college graduates and our record number of teachers, scientists, doctors, lawyers, and skilled professionals.

ACT and SAT each have their own parts of the country. The GRE has its lock on graduate admissions. And so, one could blame the companies, but really, economically, they have no incentive to change things very much because they're getting the business.

Having a college degree gave me the opportunity to be... well-rounded. Also, the people I met at the university, most of them are still my colleagues now. People I've known for years are all in the industry together.

If a student takes the whole series of my folklore courses including the graduate seminars, he or she should learn something about fieldwork, something about bibliography, something about how to carry out library research, and something about how to publish that research.

In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.

So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.

Even though I didn't get a business degree, I enjoyed learning about economics.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

I went to military college in Canada and graduated as an officer in the Navy but also as an engineer.

North Dakota State. What do you have to do there to graduate? Milk a cow with your left hand?

Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.

I received my undergraduate degree in engineering in 1939 and a Master of Science degree in mathematical physics in 1941 at Steven Institute of Technology.

Remember, half the doctors in this country graduated in the bottom half of their class.

One half who graduate from college never read another book.

I did graduate with a bachelor's degree in civil engineering in 1948.

I think I finally chose the graduate degree in engineering primarily because it only took one year and law school took three years, and I felt the pressure of being a little behind - although I was just 22.

Really, the potential for, first of all, any college graduate today is enormously good. These are good times for anyone with a college degree today, particularly African Americans. With a college degree today, you really breach the unemployment rate.

I wrote a novel for my degree, and I'm very happy I didn't submit that to a publisher. I sympathize with my professors who had to read it.

I was going to be an architect. I graduated with a degree in architecture and I had a scholarship to go back to Princeton and get my Masters in architecture. I'd done theatricals in college, but I'd done them because it was fun.

When I was a graduate student, the leading spirits at Harvard were interested in the history of ideas.

In the summer we graduated we flipped out completely, drinking beer, cruising in our cars and beating up each other. It was a crazy summer. That's when I started to be interested in girls.

I dropped out of school for a semester, transferred to another college, switched to an art major, graduated, got married, and for a while worked as a graphic designer.

My father was on the faculty in the Chemistry Department of Harvard University my mother had one year of graduate work in physics before her marriage.

My graduate studies were carried out at the California Institute of Technology.

The essays in The Great Taos Bank Robbery were my project to win a Master of Arts degree in English when I quit being a newspaper editor and went back to college.

The economy in the Valley will need to grow if students want to come back and work with their specialized degrees. We need to develop more to create more opportunities.

Yale places great stress on undergraduate and graduate teaching. I like teaching, and I do a lot of it.

I was really desperate. I don't know if you can remember back that far, but when I went to graduate school they didn't want females in graduate school. They were very open about it. They didn't mince their words. But then I got in and I got my degree.

Our promise to our children should be this: if you do well in school, we will pay for you to obtain a college degree.

The idea of winning a doctor's degree gradually assumed the aspect of a great moral struggle, and the moral fight possessed immense attraction for me.

My personal advice is to go to school first and get a liberal arts education, and then if you want to pursue acting, go to graduate school.

I think women as well as men are concerned about jobs and the economy and spending and, and other issues. They're concerned that when their kids graduate from college they have an economy and they have a future in this country and they, they have the same opportunity that we've had and our grandparents have had.

I've told my children that when I die, to release balloons in the sky to celebrate that I graduated. For me, death is a graduation.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

We are living in 1937, and our universities, I suggest, are not half-way out of the fifteenth century. We have made hardly any changes in our conception of university organization, education, graduation, for a century - for several centuries.

From kindergarten to graduation, I went to public schools, and I know that they are a key to being sure that every child has a chance to succeed and to rise in the world.

I disagree with a lot of those changes, however at the end of the day - I go down to recruit graduation at least once or twice a year.

Since graduation, I have measured time in 4-by-5-inch pieces of paper, four days on the left and three on the right. Every social engagement, interview, reading, flight, doctor's appointment, birthday and dry-cleaning reminder has been handwritten between metal loops.

I was a lesbian for a semester at Wesleyan - it was a graduation requirement.

I'm not retiring. I am graduating. Today is my graduation day. Retirement means that you'll just go ahead and live on your laurels and surf all day in Oceanside. It ain't going to happen.

A few months after graduation I was working in films. It took off pretty quick.

People in my family and camp who grew up listening to rap music love 'We Are Young.' I've heard it play at weddings. I've heard it in graduation parties. It's a big idea and big song.

I have the loving support of my girlfriend who still attends Wake Forest and is nearing graduation. She helps me cope with the everyday rigors of being an NBA player.

I was on the yearbook staff, so I would take out film cameras and Nikons and take photos around school and at sporting events and things like that. We had a darkroom as well. I just loved it. I also saved up for a video camera to video my friends and cut and paste the videos together and I gave them to all of my friends for graduation.

The morning after my high-school graduation found me up early job hunting. The dream of college I put on the back burner.

I thought I should go to New York because it was the place to go to study. I went and tried to get an application from the Juilliard School but they wouldn't even give me one because I didn't have my high school graduation.

While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on graduation as the key accountability measure.

I received $100 per week when I started working at the Globe after graduation.

Americans in particular are myopic. They're not traveling as much. When you were a college student, the next thing you would do on graduation was to take a year off and travel. That's what I did. I went to Indonesia.

I fell in love with theater there, and after graduation I moved to Los Angeles to pursue acting.

It was only when I finished the course and left my graduation diploma on the bus that I realised I'd become an actor.

One of the most difficult speeches to prepare is an address to a graduation class, which is why I don't often do them.

At the end of four years' time, at graduation, we were down to 12. At our reunion that we had several years ago, only 1 out of the 52 actually made it to ordination and priesthood. So there you go, there's your numbers.

I woke up on May 15, 1991, the day of my Barnard graduation, and I said to myself, 'By the end of today you will decide what you want to do with the rest of your life.'

A month before graduation I got an off-Broadway job. Then I did some commercials, including one for MCI. You can only see half of me, but it paid well. Thank God for commercials.

All my graduation money went to paying for bartending classes so I could have a side gig. I bartended for two months before I was supposed to move to New York and then two months later I got the job as an understudy in 'Sister Act' and haven't looked back since.

If you're picking your best friend based on what kind of clothes she wears or how popular she is, chances are you aren't going to stay in touch after graduation.

Great minds discuss ideas average minds discuss events small minds discuss people.

Great spirits have always encountered violent opposition from mediocre minds.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some have greatness thrust upon them.

One sees great things from the valley only small things from the peak.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

I am the greatest, I said that even before I knew I was.

I firmly believe that any man's finest hour, the greatest fulfillment of all that he holds dear, is that moment when he has worked his heart out in a good cause and lies exhausted on the field of battle - victorious.

The great question that has never been answered, and which I have not yet been able to answer, despite my thirty years of research into the feminine soul, is 'What does a woman want?'

There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.

I may climb perhaps to no great heights, but I will climb alone.

Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.

One of the greatest diseases is to be nobody to anybody.

I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble.

Laws control the lesser man... Right conduct controls the greater one.

A man is great by deeds, not by birth.

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

All truly great thoughts are conceived by walking.

After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb.

Those who dare to fail miserably can achieve greatly.

The greatest discovery of all time is that a person can change his future by merely changing his attitude.

The greatest way to live with honor in this world is to be what we pretend to be.

The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other's eyes for an instant?

Because of a great love, one is courageous.

The principles of living greatly include the capacity to face trouble with courage, disappointment with cheerfulness, and trial with humility.

Great thoughts speak only to the thoughtful mind, but great actions speak to all mankind.

The greatest good you can do for another is not just to share your riches but to reveal to him his own.

Never was anything great achieved without danger.

A retentive memory may be a good thing, but the ability to forget is the true token of greatness.

Most great people have attained their greatest success just one step beyond their greatest failure.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

And the American people are the greatest people in the world. What makes America the greatest nation in the world is the heart of the American people: hardworking, innovative, risk-taking, God- loving, family-oriented American people.

As a child of God, I am greater than anything that can happen to me.

A man's worth is no greater than his ambitions.

Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric? Think first about the foundations of humility. The higher your structure is to be, the deeper must be its foundation.

Great people talk about ideas, average people talk about things, and small people talk about wine.

Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength and strength is not used rightly when it serves only to carry a man above his fellows for his own solitary glory. He is the greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.

Great things are done by a series of small things brought together.

Behind every great fortune lies a great crime.

Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.

Harmony makes small things grow, lack of it makes great things decay.

Don't be humble... you're not that great.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue.

The greatest mistake we make is living in constant fear that we will make one.

Believe deep down in your heart that you're destined to do great things.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

I think what motivates people is not great hate, but great love for other people.

Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune but great minds rise above them.

And what he greatly thought, he nobly dared.

Nothing great in the world has ever been accomplished without passion.

Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises.

A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.

I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.

Behind every great man is a woman rolling her eyes.

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

People who think they know everything are a great annoyance to those of us who do.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.

Absence diminishes mediocre passions and increases great ones, as the wind extinguishes candles and fans fires.

The hottest place in Hell is reserved for those who remain neutral in times of great moral conflict.

All great change in America begins at the dinner table.

Most people say that it is the intellect which makes a great scientist. They are wrong: it is character.

I love being married. It's so great to find that one special person you want to annoy for the rest of your life.

One of the greatest casualties of the war in Vietnam is the Great Society... shot down on the battlefield of Vietnam.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

You ask me if I keep a notebook to record my great ideas. I've only ever had one.

If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on.

As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit.

It is only the great hearted who can be true friends. The mean and cowardly, Can never know what true friendship means.

My great concern is not whether you have failed, but whether you are content with your failure.

A little thought and a little kindness are often worth more than a great deal of money.

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it.

God and Nature first made us what we are, and then out of our own created genius we make ourselves what we want to be. Follow always that great law. Let the sky and God be our limit and Eternity our measurement.

That some achieve great success, is proof to all that others can achieve it as well.

As usual, there is a great woman behind every idiot.

Silence is a source of great strength.

Every man is said to have his peculiar ambition. Whether it be true or not, I can say for one that I have no other so great as that of being truly esteemed of my fellow men, by rendering myself worthy of their esteem.

Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.

All great achievements require time.

My life has been one great big joke, a dance that's walked a song that's spoke, I laugh so hard I almost choke when I think about myself.

Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven't found it yet, keep looking. Don't settle. As with all matters of the heart, you'll know when you find it.

The assertion that 'all men are created equal' was of no practical use in effecting our separation from Great Britain and it was placed in the Declaration not for that, but for future use.

In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.

God, our Creator, has stored within our minds and personalities, great potential strength and ability. Prayer helps us tap and develop these powers.

It is rather for us here dedicated to the great task remaining before us, that from these honored dead we take increased devotion to that cause for which they gave the last full measure of devotion.

Great achievement is usually born of great sacrifice, and is never the result of selfishness.

I am prepared to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter.

He who learns but does not think, is lost! He who thinks but does not learn is in great danger.

I am an old man and have known a great many troubles, but most of them never happened.

Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.

Suffering becomes beautiful when anyone bears great calamities with cheerfulness, not through insensibility but through greatness of mind.

My books are like water those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did, he would cease to be an artist.

Action is a great restorer and builder of confidence. Inaction is not only the result, but the cause, of fear. Perhaps the action you take will be successful perhaps different action or adjustments will have to follow. But any action is better than no action at all.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other's welfare, social justice can never be attained.

In times of great stress or adversity, it's always best to keep busy, to plow your anger and your energy into something positive.

A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal.

These are not dark days: these are great days - the greatest days our country has ever lived.

No crime is so great as daring to excel.

It is for us to pray not for tasks equal to our powers, but for powers equal to our tasks, to go forward with a great desire forever beating at the door of our hearts as we travel toward our distant goal.

Great and good are seldom the same man.

The great defense against the air menace is to attack the enemy's aircraft as near as possible to their point of departure.

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.

Life is either a great adventure or nothing.

Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine upheaval. Social progress can be measured exactly by the social position of the fair sex, the ugly ones included.

I have come to believe that a great teacher is a great artist and that there are as few as there are any other great artists. Teaching might even be the greatest of the arts since the medium is the human mind and spirit.

The essence of all beautiful art, all great art, is gratitude.

I always seem to get inspiration and renewed vitality by contact with this great novel land of yours which sticks up out of the Atlantic.

Instead of comparing our lot with that of those who are more fortunate than we are, we should compare it with the lot of the great majority of our fellow men. It then appears that we are among the privileged.

To accomplish great things, we must not only act, but also dream not only plan, but also believe.

I look forward to a great future for America - a future in which our country will match its military strength with our moral restraint, its wealth with our wisdom, its power with our purpose.

Fishes live in the sea, as men do a-land the great ones eat up the little ones.

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.

The great enemy of the truth is very often not the lie, deliberate, contrived and dishonest, but the myth, persistent, persuasive and unrealistic.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

When we are born we cry that we are come to this great stage of fools.

A great man is always willing to be little.

Don't be afraid to give up the good to go for the great.

Trust men and they will be true to you treat them greatly and they will show themselves great.

Half a truth is often a great lie.

Faith, there hath been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

To do a great right do a little wrong.

The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.

I am concerned for the security of our great Nation not so much because of any threat from without, but because of the insidious forces working from within.

The great danger for family life, in the midst of any society whose idols are pleasure, comfort and independence, lies in the fact that people close their hearts and become selfish.

Too often the great decisions are originated and given form in bodies made up wholly of men, or so completely dominated by them that whatever of special value women have to offer is shunted aside without expression.

Great ambition is the passion of a great character. Those endowed with it may perform very good or very bad acts. All depends on the principles which direct them.

Just as a man would not cherish living in a body other than his own, so do nations not like to live under other nations, however noble and great the latter may be.

I like to listen. I have learned a great deal from listening carefully. Most people never listen.

There have been many great men that have flattered the people who ne'er loved them.

I believe in the fundamental truth of all great religions of the world.

It's hard to be humble, when you're as great as I am.

Presents don't really mean much to me. I don't want to sound mawkish, but - it was the realization that I have a great many people in my life who really love me, and who I really love.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

I'd rather attempt to do something great and fail than to attempt to do nothing and succeed.

Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.

Material possessions, winning scores, and great reputations are meaningless in the eyes of the Lord, because He knows what we really are and that is all that matters.

The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you.

Now that the House of Commons is trying to become useful, it does a great deal of harm.

There are no great limits to growth because there are no limits of human intelligence, imagination, and wonder.

The salesman knows nothing of what he is selling save that he is charging a great deal too much for it.

A great part of courage is the courage of having done the thing before.

Death comes to all, but great achievements build a monument which shall endure until the sun grows cold.

Enthusiasm is the mother of effort, and without it nothing great was ever achieved.

Great men are they who see that spiritual is stronger than any material force - that thoughts rule the world.

A man's work is nothing but this slow trek to rediscover, through the detours of art, those two or three great and simple images in whose presence his heart first opened.

I call upon the scientific community in our country, those who gave us nuclear weapons, to turn their great talents now to the cause of mankind and world peace: to give us the means of rendering these nuclear weapons impotent and obsolete.

Beware of little expenses. A small leak will sink a great ship.

I conceive that the great part of the miseries of mankind are brought upon them by false estimates they have made of the value of things.

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

I'm a great believer that any tool that enhances communication has profound effects in terms of how people can learn from each other, and how they can achieve the kind of freedoms that they're interested in.

The wise man does not expose himself needlessly to danger, since there are few things for which he cares sufficiently but he is willing, in great crises, to give even his life - knowing that under certain conditions it is not worthwhile to live.

There never was a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

To be great is to be misunderstood.

I have great faith in fools self-confidence my friends call it.

It is a grand mistake to think of being great without goodness and I pronounce it as certain that there was never a truly great man that was not at the same time truly virtuous.

Human felicity is produced not as much by great pieces of good fortune that seldom happen as by little advantages that occur every day.

On the recollection of so many and great favours and blessings, I now, with a high sense of gratitude, presume to offer up my sincere thanks to the Almighty, the Creator and Preserver.

Unconditional war can no longer lead to unconditional victory. It can no longer serve to settle disputes... can no longer be of concern to great powers alone.

Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.

We consider Christmas as the encounter, the great encounter, the historical encounter, the decisive encounter, between God and mankind. He who has faith knows this truly let him rejoice.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones and when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.

Pain and foolishness lead to great bliss and complete knowledge, for Eternal Wisdom created nothing under the sun in vain.

There is no great genius without a mixture of madness.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

All difficult things have their origin in that which is easy, and great things in that which is small.

God will not permit any troubles to come upon us, unless He has a specific plan by which great blessing can come out of the difficulty.

People with great gifts are easy to find, but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Surrealism had a great effect on me because then I realised that the imagery in my mind wasn't insanity. Surrealism to me is reality.

Rice is great if you're really hungry and want to eat two thousand of something.

Great hearts steadily send forth the secret forces that incessantly draw great events.

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets.

A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one.

Great acts are made up of small deeds.

Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution.

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.

Great geniuses have the shortest biographies.

The search after the great men is the dream of youth, and the most serious occupation of manhood.

Great men or men of great gifts you shall easily find, but symmetrical men never.

The wicked leader is he who the people despise. The good leader is he who the people revere. The great leader is he who the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'

A healthful hunger for a great idea is the beauty and blessedness of life.

A good hockey player plays where the puck is. A great hockey player plays where the puck is going to be.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. Do not overdo it.

The first test of a truly great man is his humility. By humility I don't mean doubt of his powers or hesitation in speaking his opinion, but merely an understanding of the relationship of what he can say and what he can do.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens, and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights, true religion affords to government it's surest support.

If the Great Way perishes there will morality and duty. When cleverness and knowledge arise great lies will flourish. When relatives fall out with one another there will be filial duty and love. When states are in confusion there will be faithful servants.

Two great European narcotics, alcohol and Christianity.

For a competitive junkie like me, golf is a great solution because it smacks you in the face every time you think you have accomplished something. That to me has taken over a lot of the energy and competitiveness for basketball.

Great indeed is the sublimity of the Creative, to which all beings owe their beginning and which permeates all heaven.

A great value of antiquity lies in the fact that its writings are the only ones that modern men still read with exactness.

I dream of the realization of the unity of Africa, whereby its leaders combine in their efforts to solve the problems of this continent. I dream of our vast deserts, of our forests, of all our great wildernesses.

Forgive, O Lord, my little jokes on Thee, and I'll forgive Thy great big joke on me.

France, and the whole of Europe have a great culture and an amazing history. Most important thing though is that people there know how to live! In America they've forgotten all about it. I'm afraid that the American culture is a disaster.

I have noticed... that men usually leave married women alone and are inclined to treat all wives with respect. This is no great credit to married women.

I once wanted to prove myself by being a great actress. Now I want to prove that I'm a person. Then maybe I'll be a great actress.

If a star or studio chief or any other great movie personages find themselves sitting among a lot of nobodies, they get frightened - as if somebody was trying to demote them.

All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning. Great works are often born on a street corner or in a restaurant's revolving door.

Success has always been a great liar.

A great figure or physique is nice, but it's self-confidence that makes someone really sexy.

Whoever renders service to many puts himself in line for greatness - great wealth, great return, great satisfaction, great reputation, and great joy.

The first day of spring is one thing, and the first spring day is another. The difference between them is sometimes as great as a month.

What great thing would you attempt if you knew you could not fail?

Great indebtedness does not make men grateful, but vengeful and if a little charity is not forgotten, it turns into a gnawing worm.

Great men, unknown to their generation, have their fame among the great who have preceded them, and all true worldly fame subsides from their high estimate beyond the stars.

Some are made modest by great praise, others insolent.

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

My message, especially to young people is to have courage to think differently, courage to invent, to travel the unexplored path, courage to discover the impossible and to conquer the problems and succeed. These are great qualities that they must work towards. This is my message to the young people.

There never was any heart truly great and generous, that was not also tender and compassionate.

When one has a great deal to put into it a day has a hundred pockets.

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

Being brilliant is no great feat if you respect nothing.

Good artists copy, great artists steal.

Where words are restrained, the eyes often talk a great deal.

All great truths begin as blasphemies.

I have a great respect for incremental improvement, and I've done that sort of thing in my life, but I've always been attracted to the more revolutionary changes. I don't know why. Because they're harder. They're much more stressful emotionally. And you usually go through a period where everybody tells you that you've completely failed.

Being is the great explainer.

What happened in the past that was painful has a great deal to do with what we are today, but revisiting this painful past can contribute little or nothing to what we need to do now.

Life in abundance comes only through great love.

I have a great deal of company in the house, especially in the morning when nobody calls.

Love and desire are the spirit's wings to great deeds.

Everyone has inside of him a piece of good news. The good news is that you don't know how great you can be! How much you can love! What you can accomplish! And what your potential is!

I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship was that one had to explain nothing.

Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with you, and stood aside for you? Have you not learned great lessons from those who braced themselves against you, and disputed passage with you?

I always entertain great hopes.

We know but a few men, a great many coats and breeches.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Small minds are concerned with the extraordinary, great minds with the ordinary.

The boy who is going to make a great man must not make up his mind merely to overcome a thousand obstacles, but to win in spite of a thousand repulses and defeats.

The figure a poem makes. It begins in delight and ends in wisdom... in a clarification of life - not necessarily a great clarification, such as sects and cults are founded on, but in a momentary stay against confusion.

If you don't know how great this country is, I know someone who does Russia.

A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging their prejudices.

An index is a great leveller.

No man is worth his salt who is not ready at all times to risk his well-being, to risk his body, to risk his life, in a great cause.

Faith is the great cop-out, the great excuse to evade the need to think and evaluate evidence. Faith is belief in spite of, even perhaps because of, the lack of evidence.

Truth is, I'll never know all there is to know about you just as you will never know all there is to know about me. Humans are by nature too complicated to be understood fully. So, we can choose either to approach our fellow human beings with suspicion or to approach them with an open mind, a dash of optimism and a great deal of candour.

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country.

There is no such thing as a great talent without great will power.

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Little minds are interested in the extraordinary great minds in the commonplace.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

As great minds have the faculty of saying a great deal in a few words, so lesser minds have a talent of talking much, and saying nothing.

Man has two great spiritual needs. One is for forgiveness. The other is for goodness.

I really had a lot of dreams when I was a kid, and I think a great deal of that grew out of the fact that I had a chance to read a lot.

I am more afraid of my own heart than of the pope and all his cardinals. I have within me the great pope, Self.

I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past behind.

Rhetoric is a poor substitute for action, and we have trusted only to rhetoric. If we are really to be a great nation, we must not merely talk we must act big.

Wisdom is the right use of knowledge. To know is not to be wise. Many men know a great deal, and are all the greater fools for it. There is no fool so great a fool as a knowing fool. But to know how to use knowledge is to have wisdom.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

One of the great strengths of the United States is... we have a very large Christian population - we do not consider ourselves a Christian nation or a Jewish nation or a Muslim nation. We consider ourselves a nation of citizens who are bound by ideals and a set of values.

One of the greatest discoveries a man makes, one of his great surprises, is to find he can do what he was afraid he couldn't do.

Where there is great love, there are always wishes.

I don't feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly trying to keep it for themselves.

The system is that there is no system. That doesn't mean we don't have process. Apple is a very disciplined company, and we have great processes. But that's not what it's about. Process makes you more efficient.

Tell me, why is the media here so negative? Why are we in India so embarrassed to recognise our own strengths, our achievements? We are such a great nation. We have so many amazing success stories but we refuse to acknowledge them. Why?

To vilify a great man is the readiest way in which a little man can himself attain greatness.

If there is not the war, you don't get the great general if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.

Creativity is a great motivator because it makes people interested in what they are doing. Creativity gives hope that there can be a worthwhile idea. Creativity gives the possibility of some sort of achievement to everyone. Creativity makes life more fun and more interesting.

There is a woman at the begining of all great things.

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

We think the Mac will sell zillions, but we didn't build the Mac for anybody else. We built it for ourselves. We were the group of people who were going to judge whether it was great or not. We weren't going to go out and do market research. We just wanted to build the best thing we could build.

Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

No great intellectual thing was ever done by great effort.

Preachers in pulpits talked about what a great message is in the book. No matter what you do, somebody always imputes meaning into your books.

The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.

If you are young and you drink a great deal it will spoil your health, slow your mind, make you fat - in other words, turn you into an adult.

If you cannot do great things, do small things in a great way.

My message to you all is of hope, courage and confidence. Let us mobilize all our resources in a systematic and organized way and tackle the grave issues that confront us with grim determination and discipline worthy of a great nation.

Life is not an easy matter... You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.

Nothing in the affairs of men is worthy of great anxiety.

Germany has reduced savagery to a science, and this great war for the victorious peace of justice must go on until the German cancer is cut clean out of the world body.

Poets utter great and wise things which they do not themselves understand.

The reason we have poverty is that we have no imagination. There are a great many people accumulating what they think is vast wealth, but it's only money... they don't know how to enjoy it, because they have no imagination.

America's fighting men and women sacrifice much to ensure that our great nation stays free. We owe a debt of gratitude to the soldiers that have paid the ultimate price for this cause, as well as for those who are blessed enough to return from the battlefield unscathed.

No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby.

Pray that your loneliness may spur you into finding something to live for, great enough to die for.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive, nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning, if they be accompanied by a bad training, are a much greater misfortune.

I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.

There are events which are so great that if a writer has participated in them his obligation is to write truly rather than assume the presumption of altering them with invention.

The greatest humiliation in life, is to work hard on something from which you expect great appreciation, and then fail to get it.

Only passions, great passions can elevate the soul to great things.

The Great Depression, like most other periods of severe unemployment, was produced by government mismanagement rather than by any inherent instability of the private economy.

Those who intend on becoming great should love neither themselves nor their own things, but only what is just, whether it happens to be done by themselves or others.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

What's right about America is that although we have a mess of problems, we have great capacity - intellect and resources - to do some thing about them.

Don't wait for extraordinary opportunities. Seize common occasions and make them great. Weak men wait for opportunities strong men make them.

Great dancers are not great because of their technique, they are great because of their passion.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

There are two powers in the world one is the sword and the other is the pen. There is a great competition and rivalry between the two. There is a third power stronger than both, that of the women.

I believe the first test of a truly great man is in his humility.

Great hopes make great men.

A battle lost or won is easily described, understood, and appreciated, but the moral growth of a great nation requires reflection, as well as observation, to appreciate it.

Dreams must be heeded and accepted. For a great many of them come true.

I exhort you also to take part in the great combat, which is the combat of life, and greater than every other earthly conflict.

The great use of life is to spend it for something that will outlast it.

The great object is that every man be armed.

All the ills of mankind, all the tragic misfortunes that fill the history books, all the political blunders, all the failures of the great leaders have arisen merely from a lack of skill at dancing.

My idea of heaven is a great big baked potato and someone to share it with.

An invincible determination can accomplish almost anything and in this lies the great distinction between great men and little men.

Wealth is well known to be a great comforter.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Great dreams of great dreamers are always transcended.

Man as an individual is a genius. But men in the mass form the headless monster, a great, brutish idiot that goes where prodded.

One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.

It is another's fault if he be ungrateful, but it is mine if I do not give. To find one thankful man, I will oblige a great many that are not so.

All men who have achieved great things have been great dreamers.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

We can have democracy in this country, or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of a few, but we can't have both.

I cannot swallow whole the view of Lincoln as the Great Emancipator.

Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.

People in tough times - it doesn't mean they don't have a great attitude.

Every great man, every successful man, no matter what the field of endeavor, has known the magic that lies in these words: every adversity has the seed of an equivalent or greater benefit.

Unless you choose to do great things with it, it makes no difference how much you are rewarded, or how much power you have.

Whatever I have tried to do in life, I have tried with all my heart to do it well whatever I have devoted myself to, I have devoted myself completely in great aims and in small I have always thoroughly been in earnest.

The game of golf would lose a great deal if croquet mallets and billiard cues were allowed on the putting green.

The water in a vessel is sparkling the water in the sea is dark. The small truth has words which are clear the great truth has great silence.

For my part, I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.

More enduringly than any other sport, wrestling teaches self-control and pride. Some have wrestled without great skill - none have wrestled without pride.

Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned.

Character contributes to beauty. It fortifies a woman as her youth fades. A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude, and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

The infinitely little have a pride infinitely great.

He was a great patriot, a humanitarian, a loyal friend provided, of course, he really is dead.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

I think all women go through periods where we hate this about ourselves, we don't like that. It's great to get to a place where you dismiss anything you're worried about. I find flaws attractive. I find scars attractive.

The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

If your determination is fixed, I do not counsel you to despair. Few things are impossible to diligence and skill. Great works are performed not by strength, but perseverance.

A mode of conduct, a standard of courage, discipline, fortitude and integrity can do a great deal to make a woman beautiful.

Our Generation has had no Great war, no Great Depression. Our war is spiritual. Our depression is our lives.

Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and division of society.

Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.

It is a useless life that is not consecrated to a great ideal. It is like a stone wasted on the field without becoming a part of any edifice.

There are two great forces, God's force of good and the devil's force of evil, and I believe Satan is alive and he is working, and he is working harder than ever, and we have many mysteries that we don't understand.

The little may contrast with the great, in painting, but cannot be said to be contrary to it. Oppositions of colors contrast but there are also colors contrary to each other, that is, which produce an ill effect because they shock the eye when brought very near it.

Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Great thoughts and a pure heart, that is what we should ask from God.

My idea of good company is the company of clever, well-informed people who have a great deal of conversation that is what I call good company.

If a man can bridge the gap between life and death, if he can live on after he's dead, then maybe he was a great man.

Both dreams and myths are important communications from ourselves to ourselves. If we do not understand the language in which they are written, we miss a great deal of what we know and tell ourselves in those hours when we are not busy manipulating the outside world.

The world runs on individuals pursuing their self interests. The great achievements of civilization have not come from government bureaus. Einstein didn't construct his theory under order from a, from a bureaucrat. Henry Ford didn't revolutionize the automobile industry that way.

One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.

No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.

I see great things in baseball. It's our game - the American game.

Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.

I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.

I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.

A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.

It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.

Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.

In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.

Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.

When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.

I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.

There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.

A great artist is a great man in a great child.

The Bee Gees who are brilliant, I just love great music.

Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.

I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.

We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.

Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.

We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.

Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.

Man is only great when he acts from passion.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.

A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.

There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.

When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.

Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.

There is no pain so great as the memory of joy in present grief.

Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.

Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.

Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.

Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.

The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.

Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.

On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.

The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.

The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.

Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.

This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.

When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'

That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.

Where the willingness is great, the difficulties cannot be great.

There are 4 billion cell phones in use today. Many of them are in the hands of market vendors, rickshaw drivers, and others who've historically lacked access to education and opportunity. Information networks have become a great leveler, and we should use them together to help lift people out of poverty and give them a freedom from want.

Great ideas originate in the muscles.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

There are many of us that are willing to do great things for the Lord, but few of us are willing to do little things.

Youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged.

To have a great idea, have a lot of them.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Let us not listen to those who think we ought to be angry with our enemies, and who believe this to be great and manly. Nothing is so praiseworthy, nothing so clearly shows a great and noble soul, as clemency and readiness to forgive.

Perseverance is a great element of success. If you only knock long enough and loud enough at the gate, you are sure to wake up somebody.

Every great architect is - necessarily - a great poet. He must be a great original interpreter of his time, his day, his age.

It takes a great man to give sound advice tactfully, but a greater to accept it graciously.

Great is truth, but still greater, from a practical point of view, is silence about truth. By simply not mentioning certain subjects... totalitarian propagandists have influenced opinion much more effectively than they could have by the most eloquent denunciations.

Everyone who achieves success in a great venture, solves each problem as they came to it. They helped themselves. And they were helped through powers known and unknown to them at the time they set out on their voyage. They keep going regardless of the obstacles they met.

A great man is different from an eminent one in that he is ready to be the servant of the society.

Whoever conquers a free town and does not demolish it commits a great error and may expect to be ruined himself.

The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink.

Brevity is a great charm of eloquence.

Favor comes because for a brief moment in the great space of human change and progress some general human purpose finds in him a satisfactory embodiment.

The overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.

It takes a great man to be a good listener.

Give a little love to a child, and you get a great deal back.

All I can tell you really is if you get to the point where someone is telling you that you are not great or not good enough, just follow your heart and don't let anybody crush your dream.

Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day women are called upon to selflessly meet the needs of their families. Whether they are awake at night nursing a baby, spending their time and money on less-than-grateful teenagers, or preparing meals, moms continuously put others before themselves.

It is those who concentrates on but one thing at a time who advance in this world. The great man or woman is the one who never steps outside his or her specialty or foolishly dissipates his or her individuality.

Love is the great miracle cure. Loving ourselves works miracles in our lives.

A great fortune is a great slavery.

The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise man.

Great perils have this beauty, that they bring to light the fraternity of strangers.

Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.

A book has got smell. A new book smells great. An old book smells even better. An old book smells like ancient Egypt.

The books that help you most are those which make you think that most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.

The three great elements of modern civilization, Gun powder, Printing, and the Protestant religion.

And my dad, you're a great actor but you're a better father.

There may be a great fire in our hearts, yet no one ever comes to warm himself at it, and the passers-by see only a wisp of smoke.

The history of philosophy is to a great extent that of a certain clash of human temperaments.

He is neither a strategist nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general. Other than that he's a great military man.

The great thing in the world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving.

What might be taken for a precocious genius is the genius of childhood. When the child grows up, it disappears without a trace. It may happen that this boy will become a real painter some day, or even a great painter. But then he will have to begin everything again, from zero.

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.

Apparently, a democracy is a place where numerous elections are held at great cost without issues and with interchangeable candidates.

What we feel and think and are is to a great extent determined by the state of our ductless glands and viscera.

As far as Saddam Hussein being a great military strategist, he is neither a strategist, nor is he schooled in the operational arts, nor is he a tactician, nor is he a general, nor is he a soldier. Other than that, he's a great military man, I want you to know that.

Call it loyalty, call it what you want, but I suppose I've got people up here who I'm really tight with, we've made a lot of great bonds over the last few years and I've got people in my corner I can trust.

To live alone is the fate of all great souls.

The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.

The herd seek out the great, not for their sake but for their influence and the great welcome them out of vanity or need.

It is not by muscle, speed, or physical dexterity that great things are achieved, but by reflection, force of character, and judgment.

It makes no difference how deeply seated may be the trouble, how hopeless the outlook how muddled the tangle, how great the mistake. A sufficient realization of love will dissolve it all.

To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.

I've also seen that great men are often lonely. This is understandable, because they have built such high standards for themselves that they often feel alone. But that same loneliness is part of their ability to create.

My father was my teacher. But most importantly he was a great dad.

Why do you think the old stories tell of men who set out on great journeys to impress the gods? Because trying to impress people just isn't worth the time and effort.

You need a little bit of insanity to do great things.

In Genesis, it says that it is not good for a man to be alone but sometimes it is a great relief.

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation can be trusted to act humanely or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.

No great man lives in vain. The history of the world is but the biography of great men.

A good leader is one who can tell another how to reach his or her potential a great leader is one who can help another discover this potential for him or herself.

There is no great genius without some touch of madness.

No employer today is independent of those about him. He cannot succeed alone, no matter how great his ability or capital. Business today is more than ever a question of cooperation.

Going out and playing football or baseball with the boys, when I was a tomboy, was a great way to learn about winning and losing, and most girls didn't have that experience.

In the United States, I am a great success, but I am not a celebrity.

The old cathedrals are good, but the great blue dome that hangs over everything is better.

I begin with the principle that all men are bores. Surely no one will prove himself so great a bore as to contradict me in this.

Every great work, every big accomplishment, has been brought into manifestation through holding to the vision, and often just before the big achievement, comes apparent failure and discouragement.

Life is made up, not of great sacrifices or duties, but of little things, in which smiles and kindness, and small obligations given habitually, are what preserve the heart and secure comfort.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Anoint, v.: To grease a king or other great functionary already sufficiently slippery.

A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain.

In order to acquire a growing and lasting respect in society, it is a good thing, if you possess great talent, to give, early in your youth, a very hard kick to the right shin of the society that you love. After that, be a snob.

Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.

Many great actions are committed in small struggles.

The theoretical understanding of the world, which is the aim of philosophy, is not a matter of great practical importance to animals, or to savages, or even to most civilised men.

A great mind becomes a great fortune.

It is a melancholy truth that even great men have their poor relations.

We all become great explorers during our first few days in a new city, or a new love affair.

Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.

There have been in this century only one great man and one great thing: Napoleon and liberty. For want of the great man, let us have the great thing.

The three great problems of this century the degradation of man in the proletariat, the subjection of women through hunger, the atrophy of the child by darkness.

I look forward to death with great anticipation, to meeting God face to face.

We're a diverse society, and I think the TV is doing a great job in showing that we're all human beings, that we can all get along, that we can all be together, and I think that's a marvelous thing.

Great is the guilt of an unnecessary war.

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary, destructive and terrible, Thought is merciless to privilege, established institutions, and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

I've made some great mistakes in my life, but, you know, they were honest mistakes.

All who have accomplished great things have had a great aim, have fixed their gaze on a goal which was high, one which sometimes seemed impossible.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

Silence is one of the great arts of conversation.

The Universe is one great kindergarten for man. Everything that exists has brought with it its own peculiar lesson.

In action a great heart is the chief qualification. In work, a great head.

To achieve great things, two things are needed a plan, and not quite enough time.

Silence is the element in which great things fashion themselves together.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

If you know how to read, you have a complete education about life, then you know how to vote within a democracy. But if you don't know how to read, you don't know how to decide. That's the great thing about our country - we're a democracy of readers, and we should keep it that way.

A great photograph is one that fully expresses what one feels, in the deepest sense, about what is being photographed.

And your very flesh shall be a great poem.

It is the sign of a great mind to dislike greatness, and to prefer things in measure to things in excess.

Precepts or maxims are of great weight and a few useful ones on hand do more to produce a happy life than the volumes we can't find.

I have total recall. I remember being born. I remember being in the womb, I remember being inside. Coming out was great.

The great fun in my life has been getting up every morning and rushing to the typewriter because some new idea has hit me.

Great loves too must be endured.

People who know little are usually great talkers, while men who know much say little.

There is a kind of elevation which does not depend on fortune it is a certain air which distinguishes us, and seems to destine us for great things it is a price which we imperceptibly set upon ourselves.

I don't pretend to understand the Universe - it's a great deal bigger than I am.

All great art is the work of the whole living creature, body and soul, and chiefly of the soul.

Trouble is the common denominator of living. It is the great equalizer.

Great grief does not of itself put an end to itself.

Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

He who has great power should use it lightly.

It makes a great deal of difference whether one wills not to sin or has not the knowledge to sin.

There is none made so great, but he may both need the help and service, and stand in fear of the power and unkindness, even of the meanest of mortals.

The heart is great which shows moderation in the midst of prosperity.

If thou art a man, admire those who attempt great things, even though they fail.

You have a good many little gifts and virtues, but there is no need of parading them, for conceit spoils the finest genius. There is not much danger that real talent or goodness will be overlooked long, and the great charm of all power is modesty.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

I went to my son's graduation this weekend, and I heard a great quote I've never heard before from Albert Einstein. It was that the greatest danger to the world is not the bad people but it's the good people who don't speak out.

She's probably in denial that she's a great big ball of insecurity and I'm quite well aware that I am one.

There is a gigantic difference between earning a great deal of money and being rich.

We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

The great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.

No great art has ever been made without the artist having known danger.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

A complainer is like a Death Eater because there's a suction of negative energy. You can catch a great attitude from great people.

I do live like a rock star, but it's not as great as it sounds. It's a lot of traveling.

When you sing with a group of people, you learn how to subsume yourself into a group consciousness because a capella singing is all about the immersion of the self into the community. That's one of the great feelings - to stop being me for a little while and to become us. That way lies empathy, the great social virtue.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

A great city is that which has the greatest men and women.

It is a great act of cleverness to be able to conceal one's being clever.

Through mutual understanding, sincerity and goodwill, and with great wisdom and broad views, the leaders on both sides should jointly initiate new opportunities for peace, stability, cooperation and mutual benefit.

Beauty is indeed a good gift of God but that the good may not think it a great good, God dispenses it even to the wicked.

I knew I was a winner back in the late sixties. I knew I was destined for great things. People will say that kind of thinking is totally immodest. I agree. Modesty is not a word that applies to me in any way - I hope it never will.

See everything, overlook a great deal, correct a little.

A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible.

The difference between Socrates and Jesus? The great conscious and the immeasurably great unconscious.

One of the great things about young people is that they do question, that they do care deeply about justice, and they they have open minds.

All great peoples are conservative.

I try to read for pleasure whenever I can - it's a great way just to shut it off for a while so your brain doesn't get fried.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

Many a man has finally succeeded only because he has failed after repeated efforts. If he had never met defeat he would never have known any great victory.

A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique world, Art.

Nobody needs to cry for me. I'm going to be great.

No great thing is created suddenly.

There is a great discovery still to be made in literature, that of paying literary men by the quantity they do not write.

I am hoping that I can be known as a great writer and actor some day, rather than a sex symbol.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness than disbelief in great men.

I grow daily to honour facts more and more, and theory less and less. A fact, it seems to me, is a great thing a sentence printed, if not by God, then at least by the Devil.

I've got a great cigar collection - it's actually not a collection, because that would imply I wasn't going to smoke every last one of 'em.

One great object of the Constitution was to restrain majorities from oppressing minorities or encroaching upon their just rights.

Fables should be taught as fables, myths as myths, and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them, and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Above all things let us never forget that mankind constitutes one great brotherhood all born to encounter suffering and sorrow, and therefore bound to sympathize with each other.

The scary thing is when I did my set in Texas everyone was excited. The show was great. I was done and the next DJ put something on vinyl and the difference! The quality!!

I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal.

I started out mopping floors, waiting tables, and tending bar at my dad's tavern. I put myself through school working odd jobs and night shifts. I poured my heart and soul into a small business. And when I saw how out-of-touch Washington had become with the core values of this great nation, I put my name forward and ran for office.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

There can be no great courage where there is no confidence or assurance, and half the battle is in the conviction that we can do what we undertake.

The sensitivity of men to small matters, and their indifference to great ones, indicates a strange inversion.

All architecture is great architecture after sunset perhaps architecture is really a nocturnal art, like the art of fireworks.

What seems to be generosity is often no more than disguised ambition, which overlooks a small interest in order to secure a great one.

The difficulty is not so great to die for a friend, as to find a friend worth dying for.

I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization.

The paradox is really the pathos of intellectual life and just as only great souls are exposed to passions it is only the great thinker who is exposed to what I call paradoxes, which are nothing else than grandiose thoughts in embryo.

Because of its tremendous solemnity death is the light in which great passions, both good and bad, become transparent, no longer limited by outward appearences.

It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.

There are many qualities that make a great leader. But having strong beliefs, being able to stick with them through popular and unpopular times, is the most important characteristic of a great leader.

The atom bomb was no 'great decision.' It was merely another powerful weapon in the arsenal of righteousness.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

Memorial Day this year is especially important as we are reminded almost daily of the great sacrifices that the men and women of the Armed Services make to defend our way of life.

The harder the struggle, the more glorious the triumph. Self-realization demands very great struggle.

If you have love in your life, it can make up for a great many things that are missing. If you don't have love in your life, no matter what else there is, it's not enough.

Confidence is that feeling by which the mind embarks in great and honorable courses with a sure hope and trust in itself.

There is no greater glory than love, nor any great punishment than jealously.

Some people hear their own inner voices with great clearness. And they live by what they hear. Such people become crazy... or they become legend.

Marriage is a great institution.

Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.

God is the great mysterious motivator of what we call nature, and it has often been said by philosophers, that nature is the will of God. And I prefer to say that nature is the only body of God that we shall ever see.

I'm very competitive by nature. And I like to be the underdog - It's the best way to win. To come from behind and win is a great feeling!

A great many men's gratitude is nothing but a secret desire to hook in more valuable kindnesses hereafter.

No enterprise can exist for itself alone. It ministers to some great need, it performs some great service, not for itself, but for others or failing therein, it ceases to be profitable and ceases to exist.

The planter, the farmer, the mechanic, and the laborer... form the great body of the people of the United States, they are the bone and sinew of the country men who love liberty and desire nothing but equal rights and equal laws.

Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world.

The great thing about getting older is that you don't lose all the other ages you've been.

There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.

However glorious an action in itself, it ought not to pass for great if it be not the effect of wisdom and intention.

I remember that. I was talking to him and I said how great it would be if actors had a tail because I have animals and a tail is so expressive. On a cat you can tell everything. You can tell if they're annoyed. You can tell whether they're scared.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

Success is a great deodorant.

I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

Grown men can learn from very little children for the hearts of little children are pure. Therefore, the Great Spirit may show to them many things which older people miss.

Truth is always served by great minds, even if they fight it.

The immortality of the soul is a matter which is of so great consequence to us and which touches us so profoundly that we must have lost all feeling to be indifferent about it.

In a World where people are surrounded by darkness, ignorance and fear, it is a sign of hope to be celebrating Islam's message of peace and light, and the last great Messenger, born and chosen to deliver them to all mankind.

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Our bodies are shaped to bear children, and our lives are a working out of the processes of creation. All our ambitions and intelligence are beside that great elemental point.

Great things are done when men and mountains meet.

The difference between a bad artist and a good one is: the bad artist seems to copy a great deal the good one really does.

The great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

There's a great joy in my giving. It's thrilling. It's exhilarating. It's important to be a part of sharing. It is my love. It is my joy.

Once I planned to write a book of poems entirely about the things in my pocket. But I found it would be too long and the age of the great epics is past.

Who can map out the various forces at play in one soul? Man is a great depth, O Lord. The hairs of his head are easier by far to count than his feeling, the movements of his heart.

What happens when you have great grief in your life is the arteries of that heart begins to spasms down, just literally squeezes down like this because you're feeling the tension of your life and then the heart muscle itself will also begin - to get stressed out.

Unless you have prepared yourself to profit by your chance, the opportunity will only make you ridiculous. A great occasion is valuable to you just in proportion as you have educated yourself to make use of it.

Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.

The great constitutional corrective in the hands of the people against usurpation of power, or corruption by their agents is the right of suffrage and this when used with calmness and deliberation will prove strong enough.

Great is the power of habit. It teaches us to bear fatigue and to despise wounds and pain.

In Republics, the great danger is, that the majority may not sufficiently respect the rights of the minority.

Great works are performed not by strength but by perseverance.

A man must live like a great brilliant flame and burn as brightly as he can. In the end he burns out. But this is far better than a mean little flame.

I believe with all my heart that America remains 'the great idea' that inspires the world. It is a privilege to be born here. It is an honor to become a citizen here. It is a gift to raise your family here, to vote here, and to live here.

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects.

Thrift is of great revenue.

Beware of endeavoring to become a great man in a hurry. One such attempt in ten thousand may succeed. These are fearful odds.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.

The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be wretched. A tree does not know itself to be wretched.

Man seems to be capable of great virtues but not of small virtues capable of defying his torturer but not of keeping his temper.

They that apply themselves to trifling matters commonly become incapable of great ones.

Almost no one is foolish enough to imagine that he automatically deserves great success in any field of activity yet almost everyone believes that he automatically deserves success in marriage.

I love being. There's so much wisdom in it. You wake up in the morning and you think, Hey, isn't it great just being?

Put the uncommon effort into the common task... make it large by doing it in a great way.

My father always used to say that when you die, if you've got five real friends, then you've had a great life.

Scientists dream about doing great things. Engineers do them.

No one was ever great without some portion of divine inspiration.

The '20s ended in an era of extravagance, sort of like the one we're in now. There was a big crash, but then the country picked itself up again, and we had some great years. Those were the days when American believed in itself. I was happy and proud to be painting it.

Nothing great is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig. I answer you that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

A great secret of success is to go through life as a man who never gets used up.

Moderation has been called a virtue to limit the ambition of great men, and to console undistinguished people for their want of fortune and their lack of merit.

It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

The man who throws a bomb is an artist, because he prefers a great moment to everything.

Life is a great big canvas throw all the paint you can at it.

With people of limited ability modesty is merely honesty. But with those who possess great talent it is hypocrisy.

It is not enough to have great qualities We should also have the management of them.

I have a great love and respect for religion, great love and respect for atheism. What I hate is agnosticism, people who do not choose.

The very greatest things - great thoughts, discoveries, inventions - have usually been nurtured in hardship, often pondered over in sorrow, and at length established with difficulty.

It is part of a good man to do great and noble deeds, though he risk everything.

Men are not great or small because of their material possessions. They are great or small because of what they are.

I think capital punishment works great. Every killer you kill never kills again.

Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts - the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art.

He had no failings which were not owing to a noble cause to an ardent, generous, perhaps an immoderate passion for fame a passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

We used to root for the Indians against the cavalry, because we didn't think it was fair in the history books that when the cavalry won it was a great victory, and when the Indians won it was a massacre.

Seeds of great discoveries are constantly floating around us, but they only take root in minds well prepared to receive them.

A difference of taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

What distinguishes a great artist from a weak one is first their sensibility and tenderness second, their imagination, and third, their industry.

We must always remember that America is a great nation today not because of what government did for people but because of what people did for themselves and for one another.

In reading the lives of great men, I found that the first victory they won was over themselves... self-discipline with all of them came first.

If it wasn't hard, everyone would do it. It's the hard that makes it great.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

Great love affairs start with Champagne and end with tisane.

Rugby is great. The players don't wear helmets or padding they just beat the living daylights out of each other and then go for a beer. I love that.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

No great idea in its beginning can ever be within the law. How can it be within the law? The law is stationary. The law is fixed. The law is a chariot wheel which binds us all regardless of conditions or place or time.

We are witnessing an enormous shift of collective consciousness throughout the world. We are at the precipice of great transformation within our culture and government.

You speak of Lord Byron and me there is this great difference between us. He describes what he sees I describe what I imagine. Mine is the hardest task.

I ran into Isosceles. He had a great idea for a new triangle!

God gave me a great body and it's my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.

Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom and a great empire and little minds go ill together.

A great attitude does much more than turn on the lights in our worlds it seems to magically connect us to all sorts of serendipitous opportunities that were somehow absent before the change.

To have great poets, there must be great audiences.

My goal is people associate November with COPD awareness month as much as they notice October with breast cancer and pink. That'd be a great thing if it happened. The fact that COPD kills more people than breast cancer and diabetes put together should raise some red flags.

The great city is that which has the greatest man or woman: if it be a few ragged huts, it is still the greatest city in the whole world.

She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.

Produce great men, the rest follows.

Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out, but I'm not complaining,... Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.

To become truly great, one has to stand with people, not above them.

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. It is not complicated but it takes courage. It takes courage for a person to listen to his own goodness and act on it.

Great men are like eagles, and build their nest on some lofty solitude.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing, and must therefore be treated with great caution.

I have great expectations for the future, because the past was highly overrated.

Hugs can do great amounts of good - especially for children.

The great awareness comes slowly, piece by piece. The path of spiritual growth is a path of lifelong learning. The experience of spiritual power is basically a joyful one.

Listen to your inner-voice: Surround yourself with loving, nurturing people. Fall in love with your art and find yourself. Music is the great communicator.

People do not understand what a great revenue economy is.

From the world wars of Europe to the jungles of the Far East, from the deserts of the Middle East to the African continent, and even here in our own hemisphere, our veterans have made the world a better place and America the great country we are today.

I was really into Black Sabbath, but heavy guitars can really be very limiting, it's a great frequency and it's great fun to listen to but on the other hand, musically you can do a lot more without it.

The charm of fame is so great that we like every object to which it is attached, even death.

I'm sad to report that in the past few years, ever since uncertainty became our insistent 21st century companion, leadership has taken a great leap backwards to the familiar territory of command and control.

Americans are blessed with great plenty we are a generous people and we have a moral obligation to assist those who are suffering from poverty, disease, war and famine.

Great men are seldom over-scrupulous in the arrangement of their attire.

As it is the characteristic of great wits to say much in few words, so small wits seem to have the gift of speaking much and saying nothing.

It is great folly to wish to be wise all alone.

We may seem great in an employment below our worth, but we very often look little in one that is too big for us.

The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.

I praise the Lord here today. I know that all my talent and all my ability comes from him, and without him I'm nothing and I thank him for his great blessing.

You know, the man of my dreams might walk round the corner tomorrow. I'm older and wiser and I think I'd make a great girlfriend. I live in the realm of romantic possibility.

The good physician treats the disease the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.

A great deal of intelligence can be invested in ignorance when the need for illusion is deep.

A great deal of talent is lost to the world for want of a little courage. Every day sends to their graves obscure men whose timidity prevented them from making a first effort.

Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.

I love to shop after a bad relationship. I don't know. I buy a new outfit and it makes me feel better. It just does. Sometimes I see a really great outfit, I'll break up with someone on purpose.

The great secret of doctors, known only to their wives, but still hidden from the public, is that most things get better by themselves most things, in fact, are better in the morning.

Every great advance in natural knowledge has involved the absolute rejection of authority.

After great pain, a formal feeling comes. The Nerves sit ceremonious, like tombs.

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.

The last great delusion is soon to open before us. Antichrist is to perform his marvelous works in our sight So closely will the counterfeit resemble the true that it will be impossible to distinguish between them except by the Holy Scriptures.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

Great is our admiration of the orator who speaks with fluency and discretion.

A great building must begin with the unmeasurable, must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.

It will be a great day when our schools have all the money they need, and our air force has to have a bake-sale to buy a bomber.

There are two great days in a person's life - the day we are born and the day we discover why.

To know how to hide one's ability is great skill.

Nothing is so contagious as example and we never do any great good or evil which does not produce its like.

As a child I was a great liar. Fortunately my mother liked my lies. I promised her marvelous things.

We only acknowledge small faults in order to make it appear that we are free from great ones.

That's the great thing about a tractor. You can't really hear the phone ring.

Great souls are not those who have fewer passions and more virtues than others, but only those who have greater designs.

The state is the great fictitious entity by which everyone seeks to live at the expense of everyone else.

Those who are incapable of committing great crimes do not readily suspect them in others.

Too great haste to repay an obligation is a kind of ingratitude.

Those that have had great passions esteem themselves for the rest of their lives fortunate and unfortunate in being cured of them.

The great and important duty which is incumbent on Christians, is to guard against all appearance of evil to watch against the first risings in the heart to evil and to have a guard upon our actions, that they may not be sinful, or so much as seem to be so.

There are a great many men valued in society who have nothing to recommend them but serviceable vices.

I am a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.

Our actions seem to have their lucky and unlucky stars, to which a great part of that blame and that commendation is due which is given to the actions themselves.

Though men are apt to flatter and exalt themselves with their great achievements, yet these are, in truth, very often owing not so much to design as chance.

Heat of blood makes young people change their inclinations often, and habit makes old ones keep to theirs a great while.

What is most important for democracy is not that great fortunes should not exist, but that great fortunes should not remain in the same hands. In that way there are rich men, but they do not form a class.

No person will make a great business who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit.

All really great lovers are articulate, and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

Great minds are to make others great. Their superiority is to be used, not to break the multitude to intellectual vassalage, not to establish over them a spiritual tyranny, but to rouse them from lethargy, and to aid them to judge for themselves.

I think that the good and the great are only separated by the willingness to sacrifice.

Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.

A weak mind is like a microscope, which magnifies trifling things, but cannot receive great ones.

The great art of life is sensation, to feel that we exist, even in pain.

A cloudy day or a little sunshine have as great an influence on many constitutions as the most recent blessings or misfortunes.

I never wanted to become an actress because I'd read great literature or seen great Shakespeare. It was more just wanting to understand what the people were really like, why they said all the strange things they did.

When a great team loses through complacency, it will constantly search for new and more intricate explanations to explain away defeat.

When I say that human beings are just gene machines, one shouldn't put too much emphasis on the word 'just.' There is a very great deal of complication, and indeed beauty in being a gene machine.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

Education then, beyond all other devices of human origin, is the great equalizer of the conditions of men, the balance-wheel of the social machinery.

To be conscious that you are ignorant of the facts is a great step to knowledge.

To love one that is great, is almost to be great one's self.

Boldness is a mask for fear, however great.

A great artist is always before his time or behind it.

I feel good in my own skin because I've accepted the fact that I'm me. That's what's so great about being alive and being on this planet: Everybody's different.

The great end of life is not knowledge but action.

The Super Bowl isn't for kids, I had a great time though and it was worth every nickel of it because by doing this lame piece about the game I can put it on my expense account.

How quickly we forget God's great deliverances in our lives. How easily we take for granted the miracles he performed in our past.

The great thing about suicide is that it's not one of those things you have to do now or you lose your chance. I mean, you can always do it later.

I think cookies are sort of the unsung sweet, you know? They're incredibly popular. But everybody thinks of cakes and pies and fancier desserts before they think cookies. A plate of cookies is a great way to end dinner and really nice to share at the holidays.

We need a great president.

Personal identity seems like it's just such an American archetype, from Holly Golightly re-inventing herself in 'Breakfast At Tiffany's' to Jay Gatsby in 'The Great Gatsby.' It seems like the sort of archetypal American issue. If you're given the freedom to be anything, or be anyone, what do you do with it?

All great and beautiful work has come of first gazing without shrinking into the darkness.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

King Louis Philippe once said to me that he attributed the great success of the British nation in political life to their talking politics after dinner.

Almost everything that is great has been done by youth.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

The desire for safety stands against every great and noble enterprise.

It is no great art to say something briefly when, like Tacitus, one has something to say when one has nothing to say, however, and none the less writes a whole book and makes truth into a liar - that I call an achievement.

A subtle thought that is in error may yet give rise to fruitful inquiry that can establish truths of great value.

I am blessed to have so many great things in my life - family, friends and God. All will be in my thoughts daily.

Great events make me quiet and calm it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.

No great deed is done by falterers who ask for certainty.

The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.

It is humiliating to remain with our hands folded while others write history. It matters little who wins. To make a people great it is necessary to send them to battle even if you have to kick them in the pants. That is what I shall do.

The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

It would be very glamorous to be reincarnated as a great big ring on Liz Taylor's finger.

You can be fat and love yourself. You can be fat and have a great damn personality. You can be fat and sew your own clothes. But you can't be fat and healthy.

I think Ronald Reagan was one of the great presidents, period, not just recently. I thought he had the demeanor. I thought he had the bearing. I thought he had the thought process.

People might not think that, but the Republicans have all of the cards. And this is the time to get rid of Obamacare. This is the time to make the great deal.

Another thing I like to do is sit back and take in nature. To look at the birds, listen to their singing, go hiking, camping and jogging and running, walking along the beach, playing games and sometimes being alone with the great outdoors. It's very special to me.

So Bush certainly wasn't the greatest, and Obama has not done the job. And he's created a lot of disincentive. He's created a lot of great dissatisfaction. Regulations and regulatory is going through the roof. It's almost impossible to get anything done in the country.

Humility is a great quality of leadership which derives respect and not just fear or hatred.

I do have my ducks in line if I want to do it, but I'd love to see the Republicans pick somebody that was going to win and take over this country and frankly, to use the expression, 'Make America great again.'

A lot of people feel very good about Mitt Romney and I think he's going to do a great job.

Mitt - what I speak to Mitt Romney about is jobs. What I speak to Mitt Romney about is China, because he's got a great view on China and how they're trying to destroy our country by taking our jobs and making our product and manipulating their currency, so that it makes it almost impossible for our companies to compete.

As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.

It's a great thing when you can show that you've been successful and that you've made a lot of money and that you've employed a lot of people.

I was a great student at a great school, Wharton School of Finance.

Obama has no solutions. Obama has failed the country and its great citizens, and they don't like it when somebody such as myself speaks the truth about this - it hurts too much.

I think, in a way, I invented the term 'fight club' and that these things have always existed, but they never really had a label. Nobody had a language to apply to them. I created that language in two words and I've been paid a great deal of money for inventing two words and labeling something that has always been around.

To walk around with an ego is a bad thing. To have confidence in yourself is a great thing.

He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

From a worldly point of view, there is no mistake so great as that of being always right.

Good is somebody who delivered and allowed the company to overcome obstacles, without leaving a profound impact on its culture. Great is somebody who leads his company to achievements and performance and value that nobody was expecting it had.

Some are born great, some achieve greatness, and some hire public relations officers.

Coffee and smoking are the last great addictions.

Families are the compass that guide us. They are the inspiration to reach great heights, and our comfort when we occasionally falter.

Working hard is great, being lazy sometimes is great, but failed potential is the worst.

It is a great consolation for me to remember that the Lord, to whom I had drawn near in humble and child-like faith, has suffered and died for me, and that He will look on me in love and compassion.

Like all of us in this storm between birth and death, I can wreak no great changes on the world, only small changes for the better, I hope, in the lives of those I love.

In other words, don't expect to always be great. Disappointments, failures and setbacks are a normal part of the lifecycle of a unit or a company and what the leader has to do is constantly be up and say 'we have a problem, let's go and get it'.

We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

Duty is the great business of a sea officer all private considerations must give way to it, however painful it may be.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

Genius at first is little more than a great capacity for receiving discipline.

I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics.

Rock 'n' roll is ridiculous. It's absurd. In the past, U2 was trying to duck that. Now we're wrapping our arms around it and giving it a great big kiss.

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.

I was an OK boxer, I wasn't great, I was OK, but I loved the discipline of getting together every Monday, Wednesday and Friday, usually Saturday afternoons too, with a whole bunch of mates and training, very, very hard for about two-and-half hours.

All of the great leaders have had one characteristic in common: it was the willingness to confront unequivocally the major anxiety of their people in their time. This, and not much else, is the essence of leadership.

I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.

A great tennis career is something that a 15-year-old normally doesn't have. I hope my example helps other teens believe they can accomplish things they never thought possible.

There is no way to be truly great in this world. We are all impaled on the crook of conditioning.

Anything you cannot relinquish when it has outlived its usefulness possesses you, and in this materialistic age a great many of us are possessed by our possessions.

Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.

The creations of a great writer are little more than the moods and passions of his own heart, given surnames and Christian names, and sent to walk the earth.

The unworthy successor of Peter who desires to benefit from the immeasurable wealth of Christ feels the great need of your assistance, your prayers, your sacrifice, and he most humbly asks this of you.

Endurance is the crowning quality, And patience all the passion of great hearts.

Great minds are related to the brief span of time during which they live as great buildings are to a little square in which they stand: you cannot see them in all their magnitude because you are standing too close to them.

Fortune, which has a great deal of power in other matters but especially in war, can bring about great changes in a situation through very slight forces.

A grocer is attracted to his business by a magnetic force as great as the repulsion which renders it odious to artists.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

It is the mark of a great man that he puts to flight all ordinary calculations. He is at once sublime and touching, childlike and of the race of giants.

The smallest flower is a thought, a life answering to some feature of the Great Whole, of whom they have a persistent intuition.

The great gift of human beings is that we have the power of empathy.

When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall upon the rich.

The most characteristic mark of a great mind is to choose some one important object, and pursue it for life.

When you are happy you can forgive a great deal.

Every great person is always being helped by everybody for their gift is to get good out of all things and all persons.

A great architect is not made by way of a brain nearly so much as he is made by way of a cultivated, enriched heart.

The great accomplishment of Jobs's life is how effectively he put his idiosyncrasies - his petulance, his narcissism, and his rudeness - in the service of perfection.

Anarchism is the great liberator of man from the phantoms that have held him captive it is the arbiter and pacifier of the two forces for individual and social harmony.

A great thing can only be done by a great person and they do it without effort.

It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.

Eventually, I think Chicago will be the most beautiful great city left in the world.

The essence of America - that which really unites us - is not ethnicity, or nationality or religion - it is an idea - and what an idea it is: That you can come from humble circumstances and do great things.

Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities - brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Her angel's face, As the great eye of heaven shined bright, And made a sunshine in the shady place.

After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.

I'm one of the great unemployed looking for the next job. I'm waiting for the right offer. Like anyone, I want something that turns me on inside.

When a great many people are unable to find work, unemployment results.

Mental health needs a great deal of attention. It's the final taboo and it needs to be faced and dealt with.

A great revolution in just one single individual will help achieve a change in the destiny of a society and, further, will enable a change in the destiny of humankind.

Great artists are people who find the way to be themselves in their art. Any sort of pretension induces mediocrity in art and life alike.

Wouldn't it be great if we could look forward to a whole world in which no child will be left behind?

The machine does not isolate man from the great problems of nature but plunges him more deeply into them.

Man is not imprisoned by habit. Great changes in him can be wrought by crisis - once that crisis can be recognized and understood.

The stupid believe that to be truthful is easy only the artist, the great artist, knows how difficult it is.

Self-confidence is the first requisite to great undertakings.

You cannot escape the results of your thoughts. Whatever your present environment may be, you will fall, remain or rise with your thoughts, your vision, your ideal. You will become as small as your controlling desire as great as your dominant aspiration.

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Traffic was very, very free. It was great.

Great nations are simply the operating fronts of behind-the-scenes, vastly ambitious individuals who had become so effectively powerful because of their ability to remain invisible while operating behind the national scenery.

I was passionate. I found something that I loved. I could be all alone in a big old skating rink and nobody could get near me and I didn't have to talk to anybody because of my shyness. It was great. I was in my fantasy world.

All architecture is shelter, all great architecture is the design of space that contains, cuddles, exalts, or stimulates the persons in that space.

I have great hopes that we shall love each other all our lives as much as if we had never married at all.

If you want to become a great chef, you have to work with great chefs. And that's exactly what I did.

I'm working harder than ever now, and I'm putting on my pants the same as I always have. I just get up every day and try to do a little better than the day before, and that is to run a great restaurant with great food, great wine, and great service. That's my philosophy.

Doing is the great thing, for if people resolutely do what is right, they come in time to like doing it.

It is impossible, as impossible as to raise the dead, to restore anything that has ever been great or beautiful in architecture. That which I have insisted upon as the life of the whole, that spirit which is given only by the hand and eye of the workman, can never be recalled.

I hope it is true that a man can die and yet not only live in others but give them life, and not only life, but that great consciousness of life.

When I was 20, I thought I was 30 - but I was so far from it. When you're young, you want everything to happen now. As you mature, you can look back and see all the great things you achieved with time and patience.

I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.

I don't get angry very often. I lose my temper rarely. And when I do, there's always a legitimate cause. Normally I have a great lightness of being. I take things in a very happy, amused way.

If you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.

I wanted to learn everything I could about what it takes to be a great chef. It was a turning point for me.

It is of great use to the sailor to know the length of his line, though he cannot with it fathom all the depths of the ocean.

There have been two great accidents in my life. One was the trolley, and the other was Diego. Diego was by far the worst.

I can relate to having those people in your life that you feel are moving on to this great, big, normal life and you're like, 'What's wrong with me?'

The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.

When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their prerogative.

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has killed a great many philosophers.

Police and firefighters are great, but they don't create wealth. They protect it. That's crucial. Teaching is a wonderful profession. Teachers help educate people to become good citizens so that citizens can then go create wealth. But they don't create the wealth themselves.

Don't get involved in partial problems, but always take flight to where there is a free view over the whole single great problem, even if this view is still not a clear one.

The Bible must be considered as the great source of all the truth by which men are to be guided in government as well as in all social transactions.

There is no absurdity so palpable but that it may be firmly planted in the human head if you only begin to inculcate it before the age of five, by constantly repeating it with an air of great solemnity.

The digital camera is a great invention because it allows us to reminisce. Instantly.

Idle people are often bored and bored people, unless they sleep a lot, are cruel. It is not accident that boredom and cruelty are great preoccupations in our time.

The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood.

I try something new every night. It's an hour show if it works I maybe try it a few more times and then move that off and try something new. It's a great workshop for me.

No human being, however great, or powerful, was ever so free as a fish.

No person who is not a great sculptor or painter can be an architect. If he is not a sculptor or painter, he can only be a builder.

If you don't die of thirst, there are blessings in the desert. You can be pulled into limitlessness, which we all yearn for, or you can do the beauty of minutiae, the scrimshaw of tiny and precise. The sky is your ocean, and the crystal silence will uplift you like great gospel music, or Neil Young.

He that has a great nose, thinks everybody is speaking of it.

Let's face it - think of Africa, and the first images that come to mind are of war, poverty, famine and flies. How many of us really know anything at all about the truly great ancient African civilizations, which in their day, were just as splendid and glorious as any on the face of the earth?

Television could perform a great service in mass education, but there's no indication its sponsors have anything like this on their minds.

It does not matter much whom we live with in this world, but it matters a great deal whom we dream of.

Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind.

I see humanity now as one vast plant, needing for its highest fulfillment only love, the natural blessings of the great outdoors, and intelligent crossing and selection.

What's great about this country is that America started the tradition where the richest consumers buy essentially the same things as the poorest.

It's great to be here. It's great to be anywhere.

India is the meeting place of the religions and among these Hinduism alone is by itself a vast and complex thing, not so much a religion as a great diversified and yet subtly unified mass of spiritual thought, realization and aspiration.

It is great to be a blonde. With low expectations it's very easy to surprise people.

In Britain, like most of the developed world, stem-cell research is regarded as a great opportunity. America will be left behind if it doesn't change policy.

The great nations have always acted like gangsters, and the small nations like prostitutes.

We do not look in our great cities for our best morality.

There can be no equality or opportunity if men and women and children be not shielded in their lives from the consequences of great industrial and social processes which they cannot alter, control, or singly cope with.

The great tragedy of science - the slaying of a beautiful hypothesis by an ugly fact.

What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.

If I had my way, if I was lucky enough, if I could be on the brink my entire life - that great sense of expectation and excitement without the disappointment - that would be the perfect state.

The years like great black oxen tread the world, and God, the herdsman goads them on behind, and I am broken by their passing feet.

For there is no defense for a man who, in the excess of his wealth, has kicked the great altar of Justice out of sight.

Those who aim at great deeds must also suffer greatly.

Let us develop the resources of our land, call forth its powers, build up its institutions, promote all its great interests, and see whether we also, in our day and generation, may not perform something worthy to be remembered.

There is a great deal of pain in life and perhaps the only pain that can be avoided is the pain that comes from trying to avoid pain.

Music is the fourth great material want, first food, then clothes, then shelter, then music.

Great moments are born from great oppurtunities.

The internet is a great way to get on the net.

The great difficulty in education is to get experience out of ideas.

Life should be great rather than long.

High moral character is not a precondition for great moral accomplishments.

He who attends to his greater self becomes a great man, and he who attends to his smaller self becomes a small man.

The great thing about being a print journalist is that you are permitted to duck. Cameramen get killed while the writers are flat on the floor. A war correspondent for the BBC dedicated his memoir to 50 fallen colleagues, and I guarantee you they were all taking pictures. I am only alive because I am such a chicken.

No great movement designed to change the world can bear to be laughed at or belittled. Mockery is a rust that corrodes all it touches.

Hubris is one of the great renewable resources.

Just hit my 75th birthday, I'm feeling great!

The mark of a great player is in his ability to come back. The great champions have all come back from defeat.

I have a great mind to believe in Christianity for the mere pleasure of fancying I may be damned.

Women who marry early are often overly enamored of the kind of man who looks great in wedding pictures and passes the maid of honor his telephone number.

Until you're ready to look foolish, you'll never have the possibility of being great.

By and large, mothers and housewives are the only workers who do not have regular time off. They are the great vacationless class.

You've got to be ready to be in a great relationship.

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.

I hope that no more groans of wounded men and women will ever go to the ear of the Great Spirit Chief above, and that all people may be one people.

I don't think actors should ever expect to get a role, because the disappointment is too great. You've got to think of things as an opportunity. An audition's an opportunity to have an audience.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

I'm beginning to understand myself. But it would have been great to be able to understand myself when I was 20 rather than when I was 82.

Leisure and curiosity might soon make great advances in useful knowledge, were they not diverted by minute emulation and laborious trifles.

Well I think they broke the mould when they made me and being humble is one of my great assets.

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.

I have always considered it as treason against the great republic of human nature, to make any man's virtues the means of deceiving him.

No man was ever great by imitation.

I've got the greatest job in the world. There's no other job in government where cause and effect is so tightly coupled where you can make a difference every day in so many different ways and in so many different people's lives. It's a great challenge.

The way of the Creative works through change and transformation, so that each thing receives its true nature and destiny and comes into permanent accord with the Great Harmony: this is what furthers and what perseveres.

It's wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

The great man is he who does not lose his child's-heart.

To know how to grow old is the master work of wisdom, and one of the most difficult chapters in the great art of living.

In America, the race goes to the loud, the solemn, the hustler. If you think you're a great writer, you must say that you are.

Attachment is the great fabricator of illusions reality can be attained only by someone who is detached.

Our attitudes control our lives. Attitudes are a secret power working twenty-four hours a day, for good or bad. It is of paramount importance that we know how to harness and control this great force.

I don't have perfect teeth, I'm not stick thin. I want to be the person who feels great in her body and can say that she loves it and doesn't want to change anything.

Religion has done love a great service by making it a sin.

There is only one home to the life of a river-mussel there is only one home to the life of a tortoise there is only one shell to the soul of man: there is only one world to the spirit of our race. If that world leaves its course and smashes on boulders of the great void, whose world will give us shelter?

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

I protest that if some great Power would agree to make me always think what is true and do what is right, on condition of being turned into a sort of clock and would up every morning before I got out of bed, I should instantly close with the offer.

My own dreams fortunately came true in this great state. I became Mr. Universe I became a successful businessman. And even though some people say I still speak with a slight accent, I have reached the top of the acting profession.

I love what I do. I take great pride in what I do. And I can't do something halfway, three-quarters, nine-tenths. If I'm going to do something, I go all the way.

In many respects, the United States is a great country. Freedom of speech is protected more than in any other country. It is also a very free society.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

There are goods so opposed that we cannot seize both, but, by too much prudence, may pass between them at too great a distance to reach either.

He who waits to do a great deal of good at once will never do anything.

I will always listen to my coaches. But first I listen to my body. If what they tell me suits my body, great. If my body doesn't feel good with what they say, then always my body comes first.

Small debts are like small shot they are rattling on every side, and can scarcely be escaped without a wound: great debts are like cannon of loud noise, but little danger.

I'm surrounded by nothing but great people. I've been blessed with that, so really, I've got no choice but to be an all-around good person.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

They never fail who die in a great cause.

A mediocre idea that generates enthusiasm will go further than a great idea that inspires no one.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Failure is a great teacher, and I think when you make mistakes and you recover from them and you treat them as valuable learning experiences, then you've got something to share.

You know, be able to do something great in your life, you're gonna have to realize your failures. You're gonna have to embrace them and figure out how to overcome it.

I tell students that even if they don't like math right now, they can use math as a brain-sharpening tool - a tool that not only builds the foundation for a great career, but that also builds self-confidence, no matter what they choose to do with their lives.

A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be.

In framing a government which is to be administered by men over men you must first enable the government to control the governed and in the next place oblige it to control itself.

You are that vast thing that you see far, far off with great telescopes.

It does not require great learning to be a Christian and be convinced of the truth of the Bible. It requires only an honest heart and a willingness to obey God.

Eating is not merely a material pleasure. Eating well gives a spectacular joy to life and contributes immensely to goodwill and happy companionship. It is of great importance to the morale.

All men were made by the Great Spirit Chief. They are all brothers.

Every man of action has a strong dose of egoism, pride, hardness, and cunning. But all those things will be regarded as high qualities if he can make them the means to achieve great ends.

The debates of that great assembly are frequently vague and perplexed, seeming to be dragged rather than to march, to the intended goal. Something of this sort must, I think, always happen in public democratic assemblies.

I am a leader. Leaders always get heat. They're always going against the grain. Jimi Hendrix got heat Bob Marley got heat Miles Davis got heat. Every great artist got heat. Heat means you're doing something right.

I speak directly to the people, and I know that the people of California want to have better leadership. They want to have great leadership. They want to have somebody that will represent them. And it doesn't matter if you're a Democrat or a Republican, young or old.

I am a big believer in education, because when I grew up in Austria - when I grew up in Austria I had a great education. I had great teachers.

When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word and do not say a little in many words, but a great deal in a few.

Children are our second chance to have a great parent-child relationship.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

Great effort is required to arrest decay and restore vigor. One must exercise proper deliberation, plan carefully before making a move, and be alert in guarding against relapse following a renaissance.

Ambition is an idol, on whose wings great minds are carried only to extreme to be sublimely great or to be nothing.

The great thing about the United States and the historically magnetic effect it has had on a lot of people like me is its generosity, to put it simply.

I haven't had that one great love, which is good. I don't want that to be in the past - I want it to be in the future.

Wave after wave of love flooded the stage and washed over me, the beginning of the one great durable romance of my life.

Every gift which is given, even though is be small, is in reality great, if it is given with affection.

The sea, the great unifier, is man's only hope. Now, as never before, the old phrase has a literal meaning: we are all in the same boat.

His was a great sin who first invented consciousness. Let us lose it for a few hours.

Technology has advanced more in the last thirty years than in the previous two thousand. The exponential increase in advancement will only continue. Anthropological Commentary The opposite of a trivial truth is false the opposite of a great truth is also true.

Unnecessary possessions are unnecessary burdens. If you have them, you have to take care of them! There is great freedom in simplicity of living. It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

Great art picks up where nature ends.

I think making mistakes and discovering them for yourself is of great value, but to have someone else to point out your mistakes is a shortcut of the process.

Leaders must invoke an alchemy of great vision.

I played a great horse yesterday! It took seven horses to beat him.

Mankind is made great or little by its own will.

Mistakes are part of the game. It's how well you recover from them, that's the mark of a great player.

So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish, that he did not only sigh but roar.

A great man is made up of qualities that meet or make great occasions.

Great is the difference betwixt a man's being frightened at, and humbled for his sins.

A great book provides escapism for me. The artistry and the creativity in a story are better than any drugs.

A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle.

All the strength and force of man comes from his faith in things unseen. He who believes is strong he who doubts is weak. Strong convictions precede great actions.

We should all aspire in life to do a multitude of things well - to be a great father, to be a good husband, to be a good lover, you know, to try to do things the best you can is very important to me.

He was as great as a man can be without morality.

A large part of acting is just pretending. You get to work with these other great make-believers, all making believe as hard as they can.

I remember a great America where we made everything. There was a time when the only thing you got from Japan was a really bad cheap transistor radio that some aunt gave you for Christmas.

Nobody, I think, ought to read poetry, or look at pictures or statues, who cannot find a great deal more in them than the poet or artist has actually expressed. Their highest merit is suggestiveness.

I wear black skinny-fit jeans - I can't get away from them. It's funny because I wore baggy jeans for ages, then one day my friend convinced me to try on a skinny pair and I thought they were great.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

To have a great man for a friend seems pleasant to those who have never tried it those who have, fear it.

A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of.

Happiness often sneaks in through a door you didn't know you left open.

Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions.

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.

Some cause happiness wherever they go others whenever they go.

If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin what else does a man need to be happy?

The purpose of our lives is to be happy.

Our greatest happiness does not depend on the condition of life in which chance has placed us, but is always the result of a good conscience, good health, occupation, and freedom in all just pursuits.

Be happy with what you have and are, be generous with both, and you won't have to hunt for happiness.

Don't wait around for other people to be happy for you. Any happiness you get you've got to make yourself.

True happiness comes from the joy of deeds well done, the zest of creating things new.

The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself.

Achievement of your happiness is the only moral purpose of your life, and that happiness, not pain or mindless self-indulgence, is the proof of your moral integrity, since it is the proof and the result of your loyalty to the achievement of your values.

It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.

Happiness depends upon ourselves.

Happiness doesn't depend on any external conditions, it is governed by our mental attitude.

Future. That period of time in which our affairs prosper, our friends are true and our happiness is assured.

We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Everything has its wonders, even darkness and silence, and I learn, whatever state I may be in, therein to be content.

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature.

Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.

There is only one way to happiness and that is to cease worrying about things which are beyond the power of our will.

Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

There are people who can do all fine and heroic things but one - keep from telling their happiness to the unhappy.

The first recipe for happiness is: avoid too lengthy meditation on the past.

Happiness is not a goal it is a by-product.

It is neither wealth nor splendor but tranquility and occupation which give you happiness.

Money can't buy happiness, but it can make you awfully comfortable while you're being miserable.

Action may not always bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

True happiness... is not attained through self-gratification, but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness is like a kiss. You must share it to enjoy it.

If your happiness depends on what somebody else does, I guess you do have a problem.

But what is happiness except the simple harmony between a man and the life he leads?

Love is trembling happiness.

Happiness is the only good. The time to be happy is now. The place to be happy is here. The way to be happy is to make others so.

Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is not a matter of intensity but of balance, order, rhythm and harmony.

Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.

If you want to be happy, be.

Be happy for this moment. This moment is your life.

To be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.

In order to have great happiness you have to have great pain and unhappiness - otherwise how would you know when you're happy?

Your successes and happiness are forgiven you only if you generously consent to share them.

True happiness is... to enjoy the present, without anxious dependence upon the future.

Happy is the man who has broken the chains which hurt the mind, and has given up worrying once and for all.

You can be happy where you are.

Happiness is that state of consciousness which proceeds from the achievement of one's values.

An effort made for the happiness of others lifts above ourselves.

Everyone chases after happiness, not noticing that happiness is right at their heels.

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.

The two enemies of human happiness are pain and boredom.

Happiness is found in doing, not merely possessing.

The person born with a talent they are meant to use will find their greatest happiness in using it.

What we call the secret of happiness is no more a secret than our willingness to choose life.

A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of.

Anything you're good at contributes to happiness.

There is only one happiness in this life, to love and be loved.

Happiness is an inside job.

Every gift from a friend is a wish for your happiness.

All happiness or unhappiness solely depends upon the quality of the object to which we are attached by love.

Happiness is a continuation of happenings which are not resisted.

Happiness depends more on how life strikes you than on what happens.

There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.

Nothing brings me more happiness than trying to help the most vulnerable people in society. It is a goal and an essential part of my life - a kind of destiny. Whoever is in distress can call on me. I will come running wherever they are.

Never mind your happiness do your duty.

You know it's love when all you want is that person to be happy, even if you're not part of their happiness.

Happiness is ideal, it is the work of the imagination.

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself.

All who joy would win must share it. Happiness was born a Twin.

You must try to generate happiness within yourself. If you aren't happy in one place, chances are you won't be happy anyplace.

The greatest of follies is to sacrifice health for any other kind of happiness.

Happiness: an agreeable sensation arising from contemplating the misery of another.

I am a kind of paranoid in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make me happy.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God, both without us and within us.

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.

Man needs, for his happiness, not only the enjoyment of this or that, but hope and enterprise and change.

Always leave something to wish for otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.

It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.

When what we are is what we want to be, that's happiness.

Happiness is like those palaces in fairy tales whose gates are guarded by dragons: we must fight in order to conquer it.

Happy he who learns to bear what he cannot change.

Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. There is only one happiness in life, to love and be loved.

Happiness is having a scratch for every itch.

Happiness grows at our own firesides, and is not to be picked in strangers' gardens.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring.

If you wait for the perfect moment when all is safe and assured, it may never arrive. Mountains will not be climbed, races won, or lasting happiness achieved.

Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.

Happiness comes only when we push our brains and hearts to the farthest reaches of which we are capable.

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

Nothing prevents happiness like the memory of happiness.

The happiness of a man in this life does not consist in the absence but in the mastery of his passions.

True happiness consists not in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice.

Lovers who love truly do not write down their happiness.

It's pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

Happiness is brief. It will not stay. God batters at its sails.

Money can't buy you happiness, but it can buy you a yacht big enough to pull up right alongside it.

Happiness isn't something you experience it's something you remember.

Happiness is itself a kind of gratitude.

It is the chiefest point of happiness that a man is willing to be what he is.

It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.

The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us.

To describe happiness is to diminish it.

Our happiness depends on wisdom all the way.

Happiness includes chiefly the idea of satisfaction after full honest effort. No one can possibly be satisfied and no one can be happy who feels that in some paramount affairs he failed to take up the challenge of life.

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

Desire is individual. Happiness is common.

One of the keys to happiness is a bad memory.

Happiness never lays its finger on its pulse.

Happiness is the interval between periods of unhappiness.

Happiness is like a cloud, if you stare at it long enough, it evaporates.

People let their own hang-ups become the obstacles between them and personal happiness.

Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.

Happiness is a virtue, not its reward.

Happiness is mostly a by-product of doing what makes us feel fulfilled.

Happiness seems made to be shared.

There is only one passion, the passion for happiness.

The happiness of most people is not ruined by great catastrophes or fatal errors, but by the repetition of slowly destructive little things.

Happiness is a by-product. You cannot pursue it by itself.

Happiness is the harvest of a quiet eye.

Happiness does not consist in self-love.

Growth itself contains the germ of happiness.

To buy happiness is to sell soul.

Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.

Happiness is composed of misfortunes avoided.

Love is the most terrible, and also the most generous of the passions it is the only one which includes in its dreams the happiness of someone else.

Satisfaction of one's curiosity is one of the greatest sources of happiness in life.

Life in common among people who love each other is the ideal of happiness.

We possess only the happiness we are able to understand.

How easy to be amiable in the midst of happiness and success.

If you have easy self-contentment, you might have a very, very cheap source of happiness.

To attain happiness in another world we need only to believe something, while to secure it in this world we must do something.

We are no longer happy so soon as we wish to be happier.

The right to happiness is fundamental.

Life everlasting in a state of happiness is the greatest desire of all men.

The happiness which is lacking makes one think even the happiness one has unbearable.

There is happiness in duty, although it may not seem so.

The secret of happiness is to admire without desiring. And that is not happiness.

Happiness will come from materialism, not from meaning.

So long as we can lose any happiness, we possess some.

Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.

The action is best that secures the greatest happiness for the greatest number.

There is no worse sorrow than remembering happiness in the day of sorrow.

Affection is responsible for nine-tenths of whatever solid and durable happiness there is in our lives.

If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy.

Happiness is not something you postpone for the future it is something you design for the present.

Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle, and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared.

You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists of. You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life.

To enjoy good health, to bring true happiness to one's family, to bring peace to all, one must first discipline and control one's own mind. If a man can control his mind he can find the way to Enlightenment, and all wisdom and virtue will naturally come to him.

The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself.

Your success and happiness lies in you. Resolve to keep happy, and your joy and you shall form an invincible host against difficulties.

Happiness resides not in possessions, and not in gold, happiness dwells in the soul.

It is very important to generate a good attitude, a good heart, as much as possible. From this, happiness in both the short term and the long term for both yourself and others will come.

Happiness cannot be traveled to, owned, earned, worn or consumed. Happiness is the spiritual experience of living every minute with love, grace, and gratitude.

God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing.

Friends show their love in times of trouble, not in happiness.

Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own... Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.

Money has never made man happy, nor will it, there is nothing in its nature to produce happiness. The more of it one has the more one wants.

Today I choose life. Every morning when I wake up I can choose joy, happiness, negativity, pain... To feel the freedom that comes from being able to continue to make mistakes and choices - today I choose to feel life, not to deny my humanity but embrace it.

The greatest happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather, loved in spite of ourselves.

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose.

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.

The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.

But O, how bitter a thing it is to look into happiness through another man's eyes.

I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true.

Happiness is having a large, loving, caring, close-knit family in another city.

The true secret of happiness lies in taking a genuine interest in all the details of daily life.

Happiness is not being pained in body or troubled in mind.

Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is wanting what you get.

True happiness involves the full use of one's power and talents.

Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment.

No one has a right to consume happiness without producing it.

Love is when the other person's happiness is more important than your own.

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is, he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.

Never make friends with people who are above or below you in status. Such friendships will never give you any happiness.

Since you get more joy out of giving joy to others, you should put a good deal of thought into the happiness that you are able to give.

God will prepare everything for our perfect happiness in heaven, and if it takes my dog being there, I believe he'll be there.

Marriage is the most natural state of man, and... the state in which you will find solid happiness.

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

Choose your life's mate carefully. From this one decision will come 90 percent of all your happiness or misery.

Are you bored with life? Then throw yourself into some work you believe in with all your heart, live for it, die for it, and you will find happiness that you had thought could never be yours.

They must often change, who would be constant in happiness or wisdom.

We find delight in the beauty and happiness of children that makes the heart too big for the body.

Three grand essentials to happiness in this life are something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.

Politicians also have no leisure, because they are always aiming at something beyond political life itself, power and glory, or happiness.

Different men seek after happiness in different ways and by different means, and so make for themselves different modes of life and forms of government.

Don't wish me happiness - I don't expect to be happy it's gotten beyond that, somehow. Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor - I will need them all.

A mother's happiness is like a beacon, lighting up the future but reflected also on the past in the guise of fond memories.

There is no value in life except what you choose to place upon it and no happiness in any place except what you bring to it yourself.

The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

Money won't buy happiness, but it will pay the salaries of a large research staff to study the problem.

To find out what one is fitted to do, and to secure an opportunity to do it, is the key to happiness.

Success is not the key to happiness. Happiness is the key to success. If you love what you are doing, you will be successful.

Happiness is neither virtue nor pleasure nor this thing nor that but simply growth, We are happy when we are growing.

The smallest seed of faith is better than the largest fruit of happiness.

Happiness does not come from doing easy work but from the afterglow of satisfaction that comes after the achievement of a difficult task that demanded our best.

I would maintain that thanks are the highest form of thought, and that gratitude is happiness doubled by wonder.

Independence is happiness.

Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Never permit a dichotomy to rule your life, a dichotomy in which you hate what you do so you can have pleasure in your spare time. Look for a situation in which your work will give you as much happiness as your spare time.

I start to think there really is no cure for depression, that happiness is an ongoing battle, and I wonder if it isn't one I'll have to fight for as long as I live. I wonder if it's worth it.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

People take different roads seeking fulfillment and happiness. Just because they're not on your road doesn't mean they've gotten lost.

Remember happiness doesn't depend upon who you are or what you have it depends solely on what you think.

There is no austerity equal to a balanced mind, and there is no happiness equal to contentment there is no disease like covetousness, and no virtue like mercy.

There is nothing I fear more than waking up without a program that will help me bring a little happiness to those with no resources, those who are poor, illiterate, and ridden with terminal disease.

The happiness of this life depends less on what befalls you than the way in which you take it.

A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.

The world is full of a lot of fear and a lot of negativity, and a lot of judgment. I just think people need to start shifting into joy and happiness. As corny as it sounds, we need to make a shift.

There is joy in work. There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.

Be more dedicated to making solid achievements than in running after swift but synthetic happiness.

Life is essentially a cheat and its conditions are those of defeat the redeeming things are not happiness and pleasure but the deeper satisfactions that come out of struggle.

Part of the happiness of life consists not in fighting battles, but in avoiding them. A masterly retreat is in itself a victory.

The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.

No one is in control of your happiness but you therefore, you have the power to change anything about yourself or your life that you want to change.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

Success is getting what you want. Happiness is liking what you get.

Success in its highest and noblest form calls for peace of mind and enjoyment and happiness which come only to the man who has found the work that he likes best.

Of course, to have money is just great because you can do what you think is important to you. I always was a rich person because money's not related to happiness.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Wealth, like happiness, is never attained when sought after directly. It comes as a by-product of providing a useful service.

We all want to help one another. Human beings are like that. We want to live by each other's happiness, not by each other's misery.

Love is the master key that opens the gates of happiness.

The happiness of society is the end of government.

The happiness and peace attained by those satisfied by the nectar of spiritual tranquillity is not attained by greedy persons restlessly moving here and there.

Happiness is a ball after which we run wherever it rolls, and we push it with our feet when it stops.

A really great talent finds its happiness in execution.

All you need for happiness is a good gun, a good horse, and a good wife.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

The person who seeks all their applause from outside has their happiness in another's keeping .

The secret of happiness is this: let your interests be as wide as possible, and let your reactions to the things and persons that interest you be as far as possible friendly rather than hostile.

The greatest happiness is to know the source of unhappiness.

The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible.

The art of being happy lies in the power of extracting happiness from common things.

Action may not bring happiness but there is no happiness without action.

The supreme happiness of life is the conviction that we are loved loved for ourselves, or rather in spite of ourselves.

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness.

The only way to find true happiness is to risk being completely cut open.

There is no greater sorrow than to recall happiness in times of misery.

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Happiness is beneficial for the body, but it is grief that develops the powers of the mind.

Money is human happiness in the abstract he, then, who is no longer capable of enjoying human happiness in the concrete devotes himself utterly to money.

One of the first conditions of happiness is that the link between Man and Nature shall not be broken.

For the poison of hatred seated near the heart doubles the burden for the one who suffers the disease he is burdened with his own sorrow, and groans on seeing another's happiness.

Happiness? A good cigar, a good meal, a good cigar and a good woman - or a bad woman it depends on how much happiness you can handle.

I've made an odd discovery. Every time I talk to a savant I feel quite sure that happiness is no longer a possibility. Yet when I talk with my gardener, I'm convinced of the opposite.

Contempt for happiness is usually contempt for other people's happiness, and is an elegant disguise for hatred of the human race.

It is not in the pursuit of happiness that we find fulfillment, it is in the happiness of pursuit.

A wise woman recognizes when her life is out of balance and summons the courage to act to correct it, she knows the meaning of true generosity, happiness is the reward for a life lived in harmony, with a courage and grace.

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.

If there were in the world today any large number of people who desired their own happiness more than they desired the unhappiness of others, we could have a paradise in a few years.

Live by this credo: have a little laugh at life and look around you for happiness instead of sadness. Laughter has always brought me out of unhappy situations.

Doing nothing is happiness for children and misery for old men.

A smile is happiness you'll find right under your nose.

The first requisite for the happiness of the people is the abolition of religion.

Life's greatest happiness is to be convinced we are loved.

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

I do believe that if you haven't learnt about sadness, you cannot appreciate happiness.

Where fear is, happiness is not.

Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.

To be perfectly happy it does not suffice to possess happiness, it is necessary to have deserved it.

How to gain, how to keep, how to recover happiness is in fact for most men at all times the secret motive of all they do, and of all they are willing to endure.

Procrastination is one of the most common and deadliest of diseases and its toll on success and happiness is heavy.

If all our happiness is bound up entirely in our personal circumstances it is difficult not to demand of life more than it has to give.

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

One test of the correctness of educational procedure is the happiness of the child.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Just as a cautious businessman avoids investing all his capital in one concern, so wisdom would probably admonish us also not to anticipate all our happiness from one quarter alone.

Of all forms of caution, caution in love is perhaps the most fatal to true happiness.

Wisdom allows nothing to be good that will not be so forever no man to be happy but he that needs no other happiness than what he has within himself no man to be great or powerful that is not master of himself.

Now and then it's good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.

Happiness is the reward we get for living to the highest right we know.

My happiness grows in direct proportion to my acceptance, and in inverse proportion to my expectations.

Beauty is the promise of happiness.

Happiness is not a reward - it is a consequence. Suffering is not a punishment - it is a result.

When ambition ends, happiness begins.

If virtue promises happiness, prosperity and peace, then progress in virtue is progress in each of these for to whatever point the perfection of anything brings us, progress is always an approach toward it.

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.

Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was justified?

A man is not rightly conditioned until he is a happy, healthy, and prosperous being and happiness, health, and prosperity are the result of a harmonious adjustment of the inner with the outer of the man with his surroundings.

He who has so little knowledge of human nature as to seek happiness by changing anything but his own disposition will waste his life in fruitless efforts.

Imagination disposes of everything it creates beauty, justice, and happiness, which are everything in this world.

Happiness is a byproduct of function, purpose, and conflict those who seek happiness for itself seek victory without war.

Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness it certainly destroys liberty, and it makes some virtues impracticable, and others extremely difficult.

Happiness is a how not a what. A talent, not an object.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

Bride: A woman with a fine prospect of happiness behind her.

Happiness in this world, when it comes, comes incidentally. Make it the object of pursuit, and it leads us a wild-goose chase, and is never attained. Follow some other object, and very possibly we may find that we have caught happiness without dreaming of it.

Happiness is not a brilliant climax to years of grim struggle and anxiety. It is a long succession of little decisions simply to be happy in the moment.

It were a real increase of human happiness, could all young men from the age of nineteen be covered under barrels, or rendered otherwise invisible and there left to follow their lawful studies and callings, till they emerged, sadder and wiser, at the age of twenty-five.

When you're passionate about something, you want it to be all it can be. But in the endgame of life, I fundamentally believe the key to happiness is letting go of that idea of perfection.

The consuming desire of most human beings is deliberately to plant their whole life in the hands of some other person. I would describe this method of searching for happiness as immature. Development of character consists solely in moving toward self-sufficiency.

The only happiness a brave person ever troubles themselves in asking about, is happiness enough to get their work done.

We're taught to be ashamed of confusion, anger, fear and sadness, and to me they're of equal value to happiness, excitement and inspiration.

A string of excited, fugitive, miscellaneous pleasures is not happiness happiness resides in imaginative reflection and judgment, when the picture of one's life, or of human life, as it truly has been or is, satisfies the will, and is gladly accepted.

Indeed, man wishes to be happy even when he so lives as to make happiness impossible.

In friendship as well as love, ignorance very often contributes more to our happiness than knowledge.

The white man's happiness cannot be purchased by the black man's misery.

While it is important for people to see your promise you must also remember that hope is the keeper of both happiness and disappointment, the father of both progress and failure.

Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised.

Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.

Even in the common affairs of life, in love, friendship, and marriage, how little security have we when we trust our happiness in the hands of others!

The happiness and misery of men depend no less on temper than fortune.

Man is fond of counting his troubles, but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

The health of the people is really the foundation upon which all their happiness and all their powers as a state depend.

No man chooses evil because it is evil he only mistakes it for happiness, the good he seeks.

Happiness is your own treasure because it lies within you.

My creed is that: Happiness is the only good. The place to be happy is here. The time to be happy is now. The way to be happy is to make others so.

I've learned from experience that the greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not on our circumstances.

To be stupid, selfish, and have good health are three requirements for happiness, though if stupidity is lacking, all is lost.

Life does not agree with philosophy: There is no happiness that is not idleness, and only what is useless is pleasurable.

True happiness arises, in the first place, from the enjoyment of one's self, and in the next, from the friendship and conversation of a few select companions.

Nothing flatters a man as much as the happiness of his wife he is always proud of himself as the source of it.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

Ladies of Fashion starve their happiness to feed their vanity, and their love to feed their pride.

The secret to happiness is freedom... And the secret to freedom is courage.

The intense happiness of our union is derived in a high degree from the perfect freedom with which we each follow and declare our own impressions.

People say that money is not the key to happiness, but I always figured if you have enough money, you can have a key made.

We must have courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and to act. Everyday living requires courage if life is to be effective and bring happiness.

When you're happy you find pure joy in your life. There are no regrets in this state of happiness - and that's a goal worth striving for in all areas of your life.

It is not true that suffering ennobles the character happiness does that sometimes, but suffering for the most part, makes men petty and vindictive.

Whether happiness may come or not, one should try and prepare one's self to do without it.

A woman's heart must be of such a size and no larger, else it must be pressed small, like Chinese feet her happiness is to be made as cakes are, by a fixed recipe.

Every possession and every happiness is but lent by chance for an uncertain time, and may therefore be demanded back the next hour.

For happiness one needs security, but joy can spring like a flower even from the cliffs of despair.

Happiness is the natural flower of duty.

No man is happy without a delusion of some kind. Delusions are as necessary to our happiness as realities.

The happiness of life is made up of minute fractions - the little, soon forgotten charities of a kiss or a smile, a kind look or heartfelt compliment.

We exaggerate misfortune and happiness alike. We are never as bad off or as happy as we say we are.

Man's only true happiness is to live in hope of something to be won by him. Reverence something to be worshipped by him, and love something to be cherished by him, forever.

Happiness lies neither in vice nor in virtue but in the manner we appreciate the one and the other, and the choice we make pursuant to our individual organization.

Happiness is good health and a bad memory.

Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing.

The man who is aware of himself is henceforward independent and he is never bored, and life is only too short, and he is steeped through and through with a profound yet temperate happiness.

It is pretty hard to tell what does bring happiness poverty and wealth have both failed.

I have learned to seek my happiness by limiting my desires, rather than in attempting to satisfy them.

Work and live to serve others, to leave the world a little better than you found it and garner for yourself as much peace of mind as you can. This is happiness.

I am about to be married, and am of course in all the misery of a man in pursuit of happiness.

There is a difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man is really so but he that thinks himself the wisest is generally the greatest fool.

Subordination tends greatly to human happiness. Were we all upon an equality, we should have no other enjoyment than mere animal pleasure.

Happiness in marriage is entirely a matter of chance.

Money can't buy you happiness but it does bring you a more pleasant form of misery.

I thank my God for graciously granting me the opportunity of learning that death is the key which unlocks the door to our true happiness.

Whoever said money can't buy happiness simply didn't know where to go shopping.

Our envy always lasts longer than the happiness of those we envy.

I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.

Self-pity comes so naturally to all of us. The most solid happiness can be shaken by the compassion of a fool.

The happiness of the bee and the dolphin is to exist. For man it is to know that and to wonder at it.

Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love.

The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others.

Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them.

The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.

Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness.

Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect.

Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness.

There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment.

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness.

I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual.

We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible.

There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn.

Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times.

Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment.

You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all.

There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish.

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

Music should probably provide answers in terms of lyrical content, and giving people a sense of togetherness and oneness, as opposed to being alone in their thoughts and dilemmas or regrets or happiness or whatever.

Our principles are the springs of our actions. Our actions, the springs of our happiness or misery. Too much care, therefore, cannot be taken in forming our principles.

To suppose that any form of government will secure liberty or happiness without any virtue in the people, is a chimerical idea.

There is this difference between happiness and wisdom: he that thinks himself the happiest man, really is so but he that thinks himself the wisest, is generally the greatest fool.

The founders of a new colony, whatever Utopia of human virtue and happiness they might originally project, have invariably recognized it among their earliest practical necessities to allot a portion of the virgin soil as a cemetery, and another portion as the site of a prison.

Money may not buy happiness, but it can damn well give it!

I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.

Every day is a new day, and you'll never be able to find happiness if you don't move on.

Suspicion is not less an enemy to virtue than to happiness he that is already corrupt is naturally suspicious, and he that becomes suspicious will quickly be corrupt.

The world is full of people looking for spectacular happiness while they snub contentment.

A sincere and steadfast co-operation in promoting such a reconstruction of our political system as would provide for the permanent liberty and happiness of the United States.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

Dancing and running shake up the chemistry of happiness.

Know then this truth, enough for man to know virtue alone is happiness below.

My imagination can picture no fairer happiness than to continue living for art.

I have discovered the secret of happiness - it is work, either with the hands or the head. The moment I have something to do, the draughts are open and my chimney draws, and I am happy.

Power, after love, is the first source of happiness.

Self-esteem is as important to our well-being as legs are to a table. It is essential for physical and mental health and for happiness.

Happiness is inward, and not outward and so, it does not depend on what we have, but on what we are.

My whole working philosophy is that the only stable happiness for mankind is that it shall live married in blessed union to woman-kind - intimacy, physical and psychical between a man and his wife. I wish to add that my state of bliss is by no means perfect.

The secret of happiness is something to do.

We never taste happiness in perfection, our most fortunate successes are mixed with sadness.

If you ever find happiness by hunting for it, you will find it, as the old woman did her lost spectacles, safe on her own nose all the time.

I take it that the good of mankind means the attainment, by every man, of all the happiness which he can enjoy without diminishing the happiness of his fellow men.

People are surprised at how down-to-earth I am. I like to stay home on Friday nights and listen to 'The Art of Happiness' by the Dalai Lama.

Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.

Happiness always looks small while you hold it in your hands, but let it go, and you learn at once how big and precious it is.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

Character is the basis of happiness and happiness the sanction of character.

Knowledge of what is possible is the beginning of happiness.

We believe, as our founders did, that 'the pursuit of happiness' depends upon individual liberty and individual liberty requires limited government.

One's work usually occupies more than half of one's waking life. Choosing work that does not bring happiness will lead to a life that is mostly disappointing.

I understand by this passion the union of desire, friendship, and tenderness, which is inflamed by a single female, which prefers her to the rest of her sex, and which seeks her possession as the supreme or the sole happiness of our being.

What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told.

A wise woman never yields by appointment. It should always be an unforeseen happiness.

Completeness? Happiness? These words don't come close to describing my emotions. There truly is nothing I can say to capture what motherhood means to me, particularly given my medical history.

When a man has lost all happiness, he's not alive. Call him a breathing corpse.

Happiness is secured through virtue it is a good attained by man's own will.

You take away all the other luxuries in life, and if you can make someone smile and laugh, you have given the most special gift: happiness.

Happiness: a good bank account, a good cook, and a good digestion.

Happiness is your dentist telling you it won't hurt and then having him catch his hand in the drill.

False happiness renders men stern and proud, and that happiness is never communicated. True happiness renders them kind and sensible, and that happiness is always shared.

Happiness isn't getting what you want, it's wanting what you got.

What's the use of happiness? It can't buy you money.

Although the skills aren't hard to learn, finding the happiness and finding the satisfaction and finding fulfillment in continuously serving somebody else something good to eat, is what makes a really good restaurant.

Genuine happiness can only be achieved when we transform our way of life from the unthinking pursuit of pleasure to one committed to enriching our inner lives, when we focus on 'being more' rather than simply having more.

My whole thing is to agree to disagree and to have respect because nothing can really be changed and you wouldn't want to ruin their happiness - even if that happiness is ignorance.

The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances.

The search for happiness is one of the chief sources of unhappiness.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

A good way I know to find happiness, is to not bore a hole to fit the plug.

And one who is just of his own free will shall not lack for happiness and he will never come to utter ruin.

To desire and strive to be of some service to the world, to aim at doing something which shall really increase the happiness and welfare and virtue of mankind - this is a choice which is possible for all of us and surely it is a good haven to sail for.

To be obliged to beg our daily happiness from others bespeaks a more lamentable poverty than that of him who begs his daily bread.

I'm fulfilled in what I do. I never thought that a lot of money or fine clothes - the finer things of life - would make you happy. My concept of happiness is to be filled in a spiritual sense.

One of the indictments of civilizations is that happiness and intelligence are so rarely found in the same person.

Grief at the absence of a loved one is happiness compared to life with a person one hates.

If you have not taken the time to define what happiness means to you, what have your spent your whole life pursuing?

There is only one way to achieve happiness on this terrestrial ball, and that is to have either a clear conscience or none at all.

I want anyone who believes in life, liberty, pursuit of happiness to succeed. And I want any force, any person, any element of an overarching Big Government that would stop your success, I want that organization, that element or that person to fail. I want you to succeed.

Existence is a strange bargain. Life owes us little we owe it everything. The only true happiness comes from squandering ourselves for a purpose.

So long as you don't feel life's paltry and a miserable business, the rest doesn't matter, happiness or unhappiness.

I might have some character traits that some might see as innocence or naive. That's because I discovered peace and happiness in my soul. And with this knowledge, I also see the beauty of human life.

Unhappiness is something we are never taught about we are taught to expect happiness, but never a Plan B to use to use when the happiness doesn't arrive.

Happiness, that grand mistress of the ceremonies in the dance of life, impels us through all its mazes and meanderings, but leads none of us by the same route.

Always remember that the most important thing in a good marriage is not happiness, but stability.

Happiness is mental harmony unhappiness is mental inharmony.

Happiness is a thing to be practiced, like the violin.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

Music is the refuge of souls ulcerated by happiness.

When I was waiting tables, washing dishes, or mowing lawns for money, I never thought of myself as stuck in some station in life. I was on my own path, my own journey, an American journey where I could think for myself, decide for myself, define happiness for myself.

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss!

Happiness is obsolete: uneconomic.

A pencil and rubber are of more use to thought than a battalion of assistants. To happiness the same applies as to truth: one does not have it, but is in it.

Happiness is an attitude of mind, born of the simple determination to be happy under all outward circumstances.

Grief knits two hearts in closer bonds than happiness ever can and common sufferings are far stronger links than common joys.

Now I believe that lovers should be draped in flowers and laid entwined together on a bed of clover and left there to sleep, left there to dream of their happiness.

Some of us might find happiness if we quit struggling so desperately for it.

Actions are right in proportion as they tend to promote happiness wrong as they tend to produce the reverse of happiness. By happiness is intended pleasure and the absence of pain.

I wish people could acheive what they think would bring them happiness in order for them to realize that thats not really what happiness is.

Such happiness as life is capable of comes from the full participation of all our powers in the endeavor to wrest from each changing situations of experience its own full and unique meaning.

The secret to true happiness is a combination of low expectations and insensitivity.

I saw that all beings are fated to happiness: action is not life, but a way of wasting some force, an enervation. Morality is the weakness of the brain.

Crying is cleansing. There's a reason for tears, happiness or sadness.

Success is getting and achieving what you want. Happiness is wanting and being content with what you get.

Just stop for a minute and you'll realize you're happy just being. I think it's the pursuit that screws up happiness. If we drop the pursuit, it's right here.

One mustn't ask apple trees for oranges, France for sun, women for love, life for happiness.

Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.

We are built to conquer environment, solve problems, achieve goals, and we find no real satisfaction or happiness in life without obstacles to conquer and goals to achieve.

Thus happiness depends, as nature shows, less on exterior things than most suppose.

Alas! if the principles of contentment are not within us, the height of station and worldly grandeur will as soon add a cubit to a man's stature as to his happiness.

Happiness and virtue rest upon each other the best are not only the happiest, but the happiest are usually the best.

Tell him, on the contrary, that he needs, in the interest of his own happiness, to walk in the path of humility and self-control, and he will be indifferent, or even actively resentful.

An act of goodness is of itself an act of happiness. No reward coming after the event can compare with the sweet reward that went with it.

People truly reaching across boundaries - be they religious or race, political or geographic. A state that is sincerely civil and respectful of each individual's pathway toward life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness will be our goal.

God's children and their happiness are my reasons for being.

Happiness in the present is only shattered by comparison with the past.

Happiness is a sunbeam which may pass through a thousand bosoms without losing a particle of its original ray nay, when it strikes on a kindred heart, like the converged light on a mirror, it reflects itself with redoubled brightness. It is not perfected till it is shared.

In theory there is a possibility of perfect happiness: To believe in the indestructible element within one, and not to strive towards it.

I really love being alive. I love my family and my work. I love the opportunity I have to do things. That's what happiness is.

Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it.

Happiness is a very small desk and a very big wastebasket.

Everyone has their own way of expressing happiness.

My faith helps me understand that circumstances don't dictate my happiness, my inner peace.

If thou be industrious to procure wealth, be generous in the disposal of it. Man never is so happy as when he giveth happiness unto another.

What ever our wandering our happiness will always be found within a narrow compass, and in the middle of the objects more immediately within our reach.

There is no cosmetic for beauty like happiness.

Today, we stand as a united country and are much closer to the ideals set forth in our Constitution that all men are created equal that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Offspring, the due performance on religious rites, faithful service, highest conjugal happiness and heavenly bliss for the ancestors and oneself, depend on one's wife alone.

Objects we ardently pursue bring little happiness when gained most of our pleasures come from unexpected sources.

For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness is a planet whose resources are devoted to the physical and spiritual nourishment of its inhabitants.

Happiness is dependent on self-discipline. We are the biggest obstacles to our own happiness. It is much easier to do battle with society and with others than to fight our own nature.

The will of man is his happiness.

The Constitution guarantees us our rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. That's all. It doesn't guarantee our rights to charity.

Life is to be fortified by many friendships. To love and to be loved is the greatest happiness of existence.

Everyone needs a certain amount of money. Beyond that, we pursue money because we know how to obtain it. We don't necessarily know how to obtain happiness.

I've never felt like I was in the cookie business. I've always been in a feel good feeling business. My job is to sell joy. My job is to sell happiness. My job is to sell an experience.

This happiness consisted of nothing else but the harmony of the few things around me with my own existence, a feeling of contentment and well-being that needed no changes and no intensification.

The happiness of the creature consists in rejoicing in God, by which also God is magnified and exalted.

The said truth is that it is the greatest happiness of the greatest number that is the measure of right and wrong.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

Derive happiness in oneself from a good day's work, from illuminating the fog that surrounds us.

There are as many kinds of beauty as there are habitual ways of seeking happiness.

Happiness... consists in giving, and in serving others.

Off with you! You're a happy fellow, for you'll give happiness and joy to many other people. There is nothing better or greater than that!

There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

You get to a certain age where you prepare yourself for happiness. Sometimes you never remember to actually get happy.

Sorrow happens, hardship happens, the hell with it, who never knew the price of happiness, will not be happy.

Happiness is working with Jack Lemmon.

Happiness is spiritual, born of truth and love. It is unselfish therefore it cannot exist alone, but requires all mankind to share it.

When you relinquish the desire to control your future, you can have more happiness.

Happiness is understanding that friendship is more precious than mere things, more precious than getting your own way, more precious than being in situations where true principles are not at stake.

It is one of my sources of happiness never to desire a knowledge of other people's business.

The British do not expect happiness. I had the impression, all the time that I lived there, that they do not want to be happy they want to be right.

Values are principles and ideas that bring meaning to the seemingly mundane experience of life. A meaningful life that ultimately brings happiness and pride requires you to respond to temptations as well as challenges with honor, dignity, and courage.

From their teenage years on, children are considerably more capable of causing parents unhappiness than bringing them happiness. That is one reason parents who rely on their children for happiness make both their children and themselves miserable.

But happiness is no respecter of persons.

He who avoids complaint invites happiness.

Happiness and peace will come to earth only as the light of love and human compassion enter the souls of men.

The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire all acts are but different means chosen to arrive at it.

I always seem to have a vague feeling that he is a Satan among musicians, a fallen angel in the darkness who is perpetually seeking to fight his way back to happiness.

But what is after all the happiness of mere power? There is a greater happiness possible than to be lord of heaven and earth that is the happiness of being truly loved.

Since every man desires happiness, it is evidently no small matter whether he conceives of happiness in terms of work or of enjoyment.

The office of government is not to confer happiness, but to give men the opportunity to work out happiness for themselves.

What can be added to the happiness of a man who is in health, out of debt, and has a clear conscience?

Ultimately, all human activities have as their goal the realization of happiness. Why, then, have we ended up producing the opposite result? Could the underlying cause be our failure to correctly understand the true nature of happiness?

I can be forced to live without happiness, but I will never consent to live without honor.

Money, if it does not bring you happiness, will at least help you be miserable in comfort.

It's enough to indulge and to be selfish but true happiness is really when you start giving back.

There is no happiness in having or in getting, but only in giving.

Happiness is no respecter of persons.

To be able to throw one's self away for the sake of a moment, to be able to sacrifice years for a woman's smile - that is happiness.

I don't know the true meaning of happiness.

Those who won our independence... valued liberty as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty.

Maturity - among other things, the unclouded happiness of the child at play, who takes it for granted that he is at one with his play-mates.

No one is guaranteed happiness. You can pursue it, but if you happen to find success along the way on that road to happiness, Conservatives believe you should not be demonized or penalized for it.

Happiness comes when we test our skills towards some meaningful purpose.

When a small child, I thought that success spelled happiness. I was wrong, happiness is like a butterfly which appears and delights us for one brief moment, but soon flits away.

Happiness isn't happiness unless there's a violin-playing goat.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time I mean joy.

Happiness is perfume, you can't pour it on somebody else without getting a few drops on yourself.

I have often met with happiness after some imprudent step which ought to have brought ruin upon me, and although passing a vote of censure upon myself I would thank God for his mercy.

Try to make at least one person happy every day. If you cannot do a kind deed, speak a kind word. If you cannot speak a kind word, think a kind thought. Count up, if you can, the treasure of happiness that you would dispense in a week, in a year, in a lifetime!

I don't understand why Europeans and South Americans can take more sophistication. Why is it that Americans need to hear their happiness major and their tragedy minor, and as jazzy as they can handle is a seventh chord? Are they not experiencing complex emotions?

The art of living does not consist in preserving and clinging to a particular mode of happiness, but in allowing happiness to change its form without being disappointed by the change happiness, like a child, must be allowed to grow up.

The ultimate end of education is happiness or a good human life, a life enriched by the possession of every kind of good, by the enjoyment of every type of satisfaction.

There is no fulfillment in things whatsoever. And I think one of the reasons that depression reigns supreme amongst the rich and famous is some of them thought that maybe those things would bring them happiness. But what, in fact, does is having a cause, having a passion. And that's really what gives life's true meaning.

We've got people looking at our seamy side and our sad side a lot of the time because that's easier. It's much more difficult to make a film about happiness with lots of jokes in it.

The most exciting happiness is the happiness generated by forces beyond your control.

Happiness is the longing for repetition.

The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression.

It takes great wit and interest and energy to be happy. The pursuit of happiness is a great activity. One must be open and alive. It is the greatest feat man has to accomplish.

If you are kept in ignorance of the true way and permit yourself to rely upon and be guided by the opinion of imperfect man, you can never gain the riches that will bring you peace and lasting happiness.

Fate often puts all the material for happiness and prosperity into a man's hands just to see how miserable he can make himself with them.

Holiness, not happiness, is the chief end of man.

Happiness is nothing but temporary moments here and there - and I love those. But I would be bored out of my mind if I were happy all the time.

I've run into certain geniuses of individualism - they are very few and far between - who live their lives completely on their own terms they are very powerful and have a great amount of happiness. We all should aspire to that.

As to happiness in this life it is hardly compatible with that diminished respect which ever attends the relinquishing of labour.

No human being can really understand another, and no one can arrange another's happiness.

There is no correlation between happiness and amounts of money.

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy.

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.

As a child is indulged or checked in its early follies, a ground is generally laid for the happiness or misery of the future man.

Well, there are two kinds of happiness, grounded and ungrounded. Ungrounded happiness is cheesy and not based on reality. Grounded happiness is informed happiness based on the knowledge that the world sometimes sucks, but even then you have to believe in yourself.

To play someone who is who they are because of the happiness and contentedness that they've known in their life is interesting because of sort of how banal it is.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them, by observation, and by measuring electrical activity in the brain, in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

Oh, I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness. You went to the movies then, you saw two movies and a short. When Mickey Mouse came on the screen and there was his big head, my sister said she had to hold onto me. I went berserk.

I adored Mickey Mouse when I was a child. He was the emblem of happiness and funniness.

Happiness is a matter of one's most ordinary and everyday mode of consciousness being busy and lively and unconcerned with self.

It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.

It's horrible when people are only interested in buying labels, because it doesn't bring them the happiness they think it will.

An institution or reform movement that is not selfish, must originate in the recognition of some evil that is adding to the sum of human suffering, or diminishing the sum of happiness.

I learned from a very young age that if I pursued the things that truly excited me, that they would reward in more important ways, like happiness.

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

All people desire what they believe will make them happy. If a person is not full of desire for God, we can only conclude that he is engaged with another happiness.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

Most people ask for happiness on condition. Happiness can only be felt if you don't set any condition.

True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.

There is no happiness in love, except at the end of an English novel.

When God loves a creature he wants the creature to know the highest happiness and the deepest misery He wants him to know all that being alive can bring. That is his best gift. There is no happiness save in understanding the whole.

Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste.

I have my moments. Ever since I was a boy, I never was someone who was at ease with happiness. Too often I embrace introspection and self-doubt. I wish I could embrace the good things.

People will survive, and they will find happiness. Happiness only comes when you're not looking for it.

Every poll about the Left, the Right, and happiness reveals that the farther left one goes, the less happy the person is likely to be.

Happiness held is the seed Happiness shared is the flower.

A good cook is like a sorceress who dispenses happiness.

I am happy as happiness goes, for a woman who has so many memories and who lives the lonely life of an actress.

Lucky that man whose children make his happiness in life and not his grief, the anguished disappointment of his hopes.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

America has believed that in differentiation, not in uniformity, lies the path of progress. It acted on this belief it has advanced human happiness, and it has prospered.

Remember the rights of the savage, as we call him. Remember that the happiness of his humble home, remember that the sanctity of life in the hill villages of Afghanistan, among the winter snows, is as inviolable in the eye of Almighty God, as can be your own.

There is no happiness for people at the expense of other people.

It is the personality of the mistress that the home expresses. Men are forever guests in our homes, no matter how much happiness they may find there.

I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.

Getting married, for me, was the best thing I ever did. I was suddenly beset with an immense sense of release, that we have something more important than our separate selves, and that is the marriage. There's immense happiness that can come from working towards that.

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.

Why does watching a dog be a dog fill one with happiness?

Happiness is always a coincidence.

I will always stay close to all compatriots, and share together the happiness and suffering.

All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast.

My idea of perfect happiness is a healthy family, peace between nations, and all the critics die.

The gratification of desire is not happiness.

Happiness is a choice. You can choose to be happy. There's going to be stress in life, but it's your choice whether you let it affect you or not.

Joy, rather than happiness, is the goal of life, for joy is the emotion which accompanies our fulfilling our natures as human beings. It is based on the experience of one's identity as a being of worth and dignity.

That is happiness to be dissolved into something complete and great.