Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bashar al-Assad

There is no good war.

Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr.

Those who are convinced they have a monopoly on The Truth always feel that they are only saving the world when they slaughter the heretics.

Denis Diderot

There is no true sovereign except the nation; there can be no true legislator except the people.

Dikembe Mutombo

The doctors and nurses at the Biamba Marie Mutombo Hospital are saving lives every day and helping improve health care in the DRC which has been ravaged by more than a decade of war and disease.

Anwar Sadat

The only matter that could take Egypt to war again is water.

Edmund H. North

The world only remembers the winners.

Edmund Spenser

Woe to the man that first did teach the cursed steel to bite in his own flesh, and make way to the living spirit!

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The wars of Israel were the only 'holy wars' in history... there can be no more wars of faith. The only way to overcome our enemy is by loving him.

Edward Abbey

Edmund Wilson was our greatest American literary critic because he was more than a literary critic: He was a fearless, even radical judge of the society he lived in. (See, for example, _A Piece of My Mind_; _The Cold War and the Income Tax_; the introduction to _Patriotic Gore_.) Our conventional critics cannot forgive him for those scandalous lapses in good taste.

Joe Lhota

The role of government is to steer us in the right direction, not do all the work for us.

Susan Goldstein

I've never really been a taker, always a giver, but in this case, I really had the sense that this is what the government is supposed to be there to do.

Elfriede Jelinek

The government has once again made the right socially acceptable.

Calvin Coolidge

At first I intended to become a student of the Senate rules and I did learn much about them, but I soon found that the Senate hadbut one fixed rule, subject to exceptions of course, which was to the effect that the Senate would do anything it wanted to do whenever it wanted to do it.

Jan Brewer

Government just simply can't do everything for everyone.

Chris Bell

Ethics in government has always been important to me.

Ariel Sharon

first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to give in on Jerusalem. It is the first time that an Israeli prime minister agrees to have, I would say, another government ruling -- I speak about the Palestinians -- in Jerusalem.

Larry Craig

We do not take away the powers of surveillance, ... We do not take away the right and the power of the government to go after those who would do us wrong.

Michael Franti

To sit back and say, 'Oh, we're going to let the government do whatever they want, right or wrong,' is giving up.

Dennis Prager

Happiness is a moral obligation

Elbert Hubbard

Morality is the thing upon which your friends smile, and immorality is the thing upon which they frown

Katie Gearlds

There's no moral victory here; we wanted to win and that's why it hurts.

Anatole France

Custom alone regulates morals.

Al Gore

Make this a moral moment, ... This is your moment.

Henry David Thoreau

But they who are unconcerned about the consequences of their actions are not therefore unconcerned about their actions.

Hubert H. Humphrey

Profit and morality are a hard combination to beat.

Jesse Jackson

If (Clinton) passed the moral test he had with Kosovo, he can pass this one as well.

Tucker Carlson

We have the - the longest, friendliest border, you know, for the - for the longest time in the history - in recorded history, really, with Canada. And they get to sit on their moral perch, you know, take the moral high ground, say, oh, United States, shame on you about Iraq. They make us look bad internationally. And it's really not fair.