I understood that with the swipe of my pen as a prosecutor, I would have the decision in my pen to make a decision about someone’s life.

Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me?

No public man can be just a little crooked.

Eight years involved with the nuclear industry have taught me that when nothing can possible go wrong and every avenue has been covered, then is the time to buy a house on the next continent.

Even if you’re happy with the life you’ve chosen, you’re still curious about the other options.

Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.

I repeat… that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from the people and for the people all springs, and all must exist.

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

It’s annoying, but justice and equality are mates. Aren’t they? Justice always wants to hang out with equality. And equality is a real pain.

One who is injured ought not to return the injury, for on no account can it be right to do an injustice; and it is not right to return an injury, or to do evil to any man, however much we have suffered from him.

Until the great mass of the people shall be filled with the sense of responsibility for each other’s welfare, social justice can never be attained.

The blame is his who chooses: God is blameless.

One aspect of appellate judging is we have to give reasons for all of our decisions. And when you sit down and try to write it out, sometimes you find that your first judgment wasn’t the right one.

Since the team understands that the leader is de facto in charge, in that respect, a leader has nothing to prove. But in another respect, a leader has everything to prove: Every member of the team must develop the trust and confidence that their leader will exercise good judgment, remain calm, and make the right decisions when it matters most.

Woe to him that claims obedience when it is not due; woe to him that refuses it when it is.

Failure is nature’s plan to prepare you for great responsibilities.

Human judges can show mercy. But against the laws of nature, there is no appeal.

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.

My parents didn’t want to move to Florida, but they turned sixty and that’s the law.

Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don’t do anything about it.

Your emotions are very unstable and should never be the foundation for direction in your life.

We never fail when we try to do our duty, we always fail when we neglect to do it.

You have to just make the choices you make in life. I made the choices I made because I believed they were right for me.

Ultimately this issue is on us. We’re the ones who make the decisions about what our kids eat.

We are not living in a world where all roads are radii of a circle and where all, if followed long enough, will therefore draw gradually nearer and finally meet at the centre: rather in a world where every road, after a few miles, forks into two, and each of those into two again, and at each fork, you must make a decision.

‚Tis better to bear the ills we have than fly to others that we know not of.

The spirit of America has nurtured responsibility and community unlike any other country.

There will be no prison which can hold our movement down.

I love being in a courtroom.

One way to make sure crime doesn’t pay would be to let the government run it.

I usually make up my mind about a man in ten seconds, and I very rarely change it.

When police or prosecutors conceal significant exculpatory or impeaching material, we hold, it is ordinarily incumbent on the state to set the record straight.

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.

The course of this conflict is not known, yet its outcome is certain. Freedom and fear, justice and cruelty, have always been at war, and we know that God is not neutral between them.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

I made a decision when my father passed away that I was going to be who God made me to be and not try to preach like my father.

In too much of the West, everyone wants the guarantee of safety, and never having to make any decisions.

On wrongs swift vengeance waits.

Forgiveness is not a feeling – it’s a decision we make because we want to do what’s right before God. It’s a quality decision that won’t be easy and it may take time to get through the process, depending on the severity of the offense.

The responsibility of a writer is to excavate the experience of the people who produced him.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

Laws too gentle are seldom obeyed; too severe, seldom executed.

Every family should have the right to spend their money, after tax, as they wish, and not as the government dictates. Let us extend choice, extend the will to choose and the chance to choose.

Revenge is an act of passion; vengeance of justice. Injuries are revenged; crimes are avenged.

We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

International summits and organisations like WTO take decisions, which will bind us, and if we are not present in such summits, we may be hurt by the decisions taken.

How accurately can the law fix the crime? There has to be a mechanism for very fast action. The law is like this: catch them and punish them.

In countries where innocent people are dying, the leaders are following their blood rather than their brains.

What matters in the Sun-tzu universe are not positions of strength and power, but situations in which you have options, full of potential force.

He who would be no slave must consent to have no slave. Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves and, under a just God, cannot long retain it.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

You cannot be in a position of power and destroy the life of another person.

If I want to do well in racing I need to be more focused so I stopped going to school. If I wasn’t a very good driver it would not be a wise decision, but it gives me an advantage over my competitors.

The issues that cross a president’s desk are never easy. The easy questions don’t even get to the president.

Never allow a person to tell you no who doesn’t have the power to say yes.

Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives.

There is no grievance that is a fit object of redress by mob law.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

I don’t have a magic formula for prioritizing the world’s problems.

It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you’ll do things differently.