Quotes 81 till 100 of 1254.
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A government, for protecting business only, is but a carcass, and soon falls by its own corruption and decay.
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A great deal of my battle, as an actor, is to whittle away the things that make me self-conscious and try to trick myself into not being self-conscious. So, it's always a challenge, whether I'm lying in a hospital bed or flying around with a rocket pack on my back, or what have you. On the best of days, it's a challenge for me.
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A great revolution is never the fault of the people, but of the government.
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A healthy self-love means we have no compulsion to justify to ourselves or others why we take vacations, why we sleep late, why we buy new shoes, why we spoil ourselves from time to time. We feel comfortable doing things which add quality and beauty to life.
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A house divided against itself cannot stand - I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free.
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A little group of willful men reflecting no opinion but their own have rendered the great Government of the United States helpless and contemptible.
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A little reflection will enable any person to detect in himself that setness in trifles which is the result of the unwatched instinct of self-will and to establish over himself a jealous guardianship.
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A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving.
U.S. News & World Report, Volume 136, Issues 20-23, 2004 -
A man can go from being a lover to being a stranger in three moves flat but a woman under the guise of friendship will engage in acts of duplicity which come to light very much later. There are different species of self-justification.
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A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.
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A man makes inferiors his superiors by heat; self-control is the rule.
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
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A permissive government is a government that leaves control to other sources.
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A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years.
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A president who breaks the law is a threat to the very structure of our government.
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A price has to be paid for success. Almost invariably those who have reached the summits worked harder and longer, studied and planned more assiduously, practiced more self-denial, overcame more difficulties than those of us who have not risen so far.
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A reporter's ability to keep the bond of confidentiality often enables him to learn the hidden or secret aspects of government.
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A self made man is a rarity and hated by the parasites that floated to fame thought their parents, relatives and contacts.
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A self-respecting nation is ready for anything, including war, except for a renunciation of its option to make war.
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