To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is plunder.

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.

A real Christian is a person who can give his pet parrot to the town gossip.

Feeling like you’re respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

We need to avoid the spiritual sickness of a church that is wrapped up in its own world: when a church becomes like this, it grows sick.

I think you could ask 10 English people the same question about class and get a very different answer.

I want you to be concerned about your next door neighbor. Do you know your next door neighbor?

There is no such thing as society: there are individual men and women, and there are families.

To all general purposes we have uniformly been one people, each individual citizen everywhere enjoying the same national rights, privileges, and protection.

All my adult life people have been helping me.

Information helps you to see that you’re not alone. That there’s somebody in Mississippi and somebody in Tokyo who all have wept, who’ve all longed and lost, who’ve all been happy. So the library helps you to see, not only that you are not alone, but that you’re not really any different from everyone else.

Look folks, we know who built this country and we know who is going to rebuild it. It’s you. Instead of vilifying you, we should be thanking you. We owe you.

We’re a community of a billion-plus people, and the best-selling phones – apart from the iPhone – can sell 10, 20 million. If we did build a phone, we’d only reach 1 or 2 percent of our users. That doesn’t do anything awesome for us. We wanted to turn as many phones as possible into ‚Facebook phones.‘ That’s what Facebook Home is.

Our constitution protects aliens, drunks and U.S. Senators.

I don’t know if it’s changing already with ‚Joanne,‘ but my intention is to bring people together that don’t know each other and that would maybe feel awkward, but somehow be brought together by the music. That’s what I wanted to do. Because that is pure and authentic to my family history and what I stand for.

Distrust and caution are the parents of security.

When the human race neglects its weaker members, when the family neglects its weakest one – it’s the first blow in a suicidal movement. I see the neglect in cities around the country, in poor white children in West Virginia and Virginia and Kentucky – in the big cities, too, for that matter.

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.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Today, writers want to impress other writers.

Instead of being just a church that welcomes and receives by keeping the doors open, let us try also to be a church that finds new roads, that is able to step outside itself and go to those who do not attend Mass, to those who have quit or are indifferent.

Being part of a community with a church at its centre and singin‘ hymns is a great thing to do.

Let it be our delight to find our society in the circle of which Jesus is the center, and let us make those our friends who are the friends of Jesus.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself.

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

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

The scab is a traitor to his God, his mother, and his class.

Hip-hop is ever changing but you’ll always have the pack. And you’ll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

I certainly know that I would not be able to survive if it were not for the fact that I am being upheld by the prayers of so many people.

Morgan Freeman is so class. He’s so cool. He’s so scary.

Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, we squandered an obvious opportunity to make service a noble cause again, and rekindle an American spirit of community.

If you burn your neighbors house down, it doesn’t make your house look any better.

Stay active. Read the Word. Worship with other believers. Continue to give. Keep learning and growing. Your faith will be unleashed!

In order to deal with all the medical cost demands and other challenges in the U.S., as we look to raise that revenue, the rich will have to pay slightly more. That’s quite clear.

People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.

Here in America, we don’t let our differences tear us apart. Not here. Because we know that our greatness comes from when we appreciate each other’s strengths, when we learn from each other, when we lean on each other, because in this country, it’s never been each person for themselves. No, we’re all in this together. We always have been.

Our veterans who fall on hard times and find themselves without a home deserve more than just handwringing or kind words. They deserve real help that gets them back on their feet.

People need to be insured so when you have an accident out there, or when something catastrophic happens to you, that you’re covered and there’s not someone else has to pay for you. That is as simple as that.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

I’ve met some Evertonians in the street, and they’ve been friendly. I’ve had taxi drivers who have been Everton fans. They’ve been really nice.

Every day or two, I strolled to the village to hear some of the gossip which is incessantly going on there, circulating either from mouth to mouth, or from newspaper to newspaper, and which, taken in homeopathic doses, was really as refreshing in its way as the rustle of leaves and the peeping of frogs.

There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern.

The answer to many of the domestic problems we face is not higher taxes and more spending. It is less waste, more results and greater freedom for the individual American to earn a rightful place in his own community – and for States and localities to address their own needs in their own ways, in the light of their own priorities.

Society does not consist of individuals but expresses the sum of interrelations, the relations within which these individuals stand.

I entered the diocesan seminary. I liked the Dominicans, and I had Dominican friends. But then I chose the Society of Jesus, which I knew well because the seminary was entrusted to the Jesuits. Three things in particular struck me about the Society: the missionary spirit, community and discipline.

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

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

Being young is a great advantage, since we see the world from a new perspective and we are not afraid to make radical changes.

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.

For too long in this society, we have celebrated unrestrained individualism over common community.

Whether we’re Democrats, Republicans, or independents – it does not matter. We all understand that an attack on any one of us is an attack on all of us.

War grows out of the desire of the individual to gain advantage at the expense of his fellow man.

I want get across to not just the church world. I want to get outside those walls to everyday people.

If you are an American, you must allow all ideas to circulate freely in your community, not merely your own.

No man, who continues to add something to the material, intellectual and moral well-being of the place in which he lives, is left long without proper reward.

The citizens of Tumortown are forever assailed with cures and rumors of cures.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.

A lot of Jews are great friends of mine.

God’s angels often protect his servants from potential enemies.

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.