Quotes 81 till 100 of 228.
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If you once turn on your side after the hour at which you ought to rise, it is all over. Bolt up at once.
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If your contribution has been vital there will always be somebody to pick up where you left off, and that will be your claim to immortality.
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Ignore what a man desires and you ignore the very source of his power
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In a free society the state does not administer the affairs of men. It administers justice among men who conduct their own affairs.
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In an examination those who do not wish to know ask questions of those who cannot tell.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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In every particular state of the world, those nations which are strongest tend to prevail over the others; and in certain marked peculiarities the strongest tend to be the best.
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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.
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In making the great experiment of governing people by consent rather than by coercion, it is not sufficient that the party in power should have a majority. It is just as necessary that the party in power should never outrage the minority.
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It is absolutely my conviction, that Walter Salles will figure among the great directors of our time.
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It is good to be without vices, but it is not good to be without temptations.
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It is often said that men are ruled by their imaginations; but it would be truer to say they are governed by the weakness of their imaginations.
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It is perfectly true that that government is best which governs least. It is equally true that that government is best which provides most.
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It is precisely the purpose of the public opinion generated by the press to make the public incapable of judging, to insinuate into it the attitude of someone irresponsible, uninformed.
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It is the nature of men having escaped one extreme, which by force they were constrained long to endure, to run headlong into the other extreme, forgetting that virtue doth always consist in the mean.
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It is wonderful what strength of purpose and boldness and energy of will are roused by the assurance that we are doing our duty.
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Let a human being throw the energies of his soul into the making of something, and the instinct of workmanship will take care of his honesty.
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Like ultraviolet rays memory shows to each man in the book of life a script that invisibly and prophetically glosses the text.
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Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
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