Quotes 141 till 160 of 356.
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It is a besetting vice of democracies to substitute public opinion for law. This is the usual form in which masses of men exhibit their tyranny.
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It is a socialist idea that making profits is a vice; I consider the real vice is making losses.
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It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely to wield power, to be famed and to be feared. To learn this simple fact one must wade through a sea of
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It is only requisite, for me to say to you, that the President places great reliance upon your skill, judgment and intimate knowledge.
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It is the American vice, the democratic disease which expresses its tyranny by reducing everything unique to the level of the herd.
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It is the duty of the President to propose and it is the privilege of the Congress to dispose.
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It is unimaginable that anyone, right or left, can aspire to be president without having thought about this. Every candidate has the stage; the Republicans have used it to fuss unproductively over the Common Core. The Democrats have all but refused to speak.
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It was a mistake. I was wrong, but I discovered this many years later. I was acting on the basis of this mandate given me by the most important leaders of the world: President Bush's father, prime minister of France, President Mitterand, the Chinese, everybody.
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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.
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It's a great country, where anybody can grow up to be president... except me.
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It's pretty cool to be able to hang out with the President and have the race-winning car on the South Lawn.
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Laws and customs may be creative of vice; and should be therefore perpetually under process of observation and correction: but laws and customs cannot be creative of virtue: they may encourage and help to preserve it; but they cannot originate it.
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Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington - as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the 'Every President Gets a Trophy' ethos?
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Lord, Lord, how subject we old men are to this vice of lying!
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Luxury
Employ'd a Million of the Poor,
And odious Pride a Million more;
Envy it self, and Vanity,
Were Ministers of Industry;
Their darling Folly, Fickleness,
In Diet, Furniture and Dress,
That strange ridic'lous Vice, was made
The very Wheel that turn'd the Trade.The Fable of the Bees The Grumbling Hive, line 180, p. 10 -
Lying is a terrible vice, it testifies that one despises God, but fears men.
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Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.
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