All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.

I have never changed my message. I preach the Bible, and I preach it with authority.

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from religious conviction.

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

Wisdom, compassion, and courage are the three universally recognized moral qualities of men.

I only wish that ordinary people had an unlimited capacity for doing harm; then they might have an unlimited power for doing good.

Anywhere I go, there is always an incredible crowd that follows me. In Rome, as I land at the airport, even the men kiss me. I love Rome.

Men are so willing to respect anything that bores them.

I often say of George Washington that he was one of the few in the whole history of the world who was not carried away by power.

The purposes of the United States should not be doubted. The Security Council resolutions will be enforced – the just demands of peace and security will be met – or action will be unavoidable. And a regime that has lost its legitimacy will also lose its power.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

Nothing is so strongly fortified that it cannot be taken by money.

Power is my mistress. I have worked too hard at her conquest to allow anyone to take her away from me.

Our schools and colleges are turning out people who cannot feel fulfilled unless they are telling other people what to do.

People are skeptical of many televangelists, and I’m sensitive to that.

I don’t believe in icons.

Few enterprises of great labor or hazard would be undertaken if we had not the power of magnifying the advantages we expect from them.

Men are never really willing to die except for the sake of freedom: therefore they do not believe in dying completely.

Men freely believe that which they desire.

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Those newspapers of the nation which most loudly cried dictatorship against me would have been the first to justify the beginnings of dictatorship by somebody else.

Power is like being a lady… if you have to tell people you are, you aren’t.

Men are only as great as they are kind.

Before we acquire great power we must acquire wisdom to use it well.

Diplomacy: the art of restraining power.

We can approach God’s throne with boldness because we are confident in the power of what Jesus accomplished for us at the cross.

Time, which alone makes the reputation of men, ends by making their defects respectable.

Trust, but verify.

There will never be a really free and enlightened State until the State comes to recognize the individual as a higher and independent power, from which all its own power and authority are derived, and treats him accordingly.

No man is above the law and no man is below it: nor do we ask any man’s permission when we ask him to obey it.

Man is a credulous animal, and must believe something; in the absence of good grounds for belief, he will be satisfied with bad ones.

I have no fear that the result of our experiment will be that men may be trusted to govern themselves without a master.

Let us never forget that government is ourselves and not an alien power over us. The ultimate rulers of our democracy are not a President and senators and congressmen and government officials, but the voters of this country.

Men do not shape destiny, Destiny produces the man for the hour.

The natural cause of the human mind is certainly from credulity to skepticism.

Nothing is more gratifying to the mind of man than power or dominion.

Suspicion is far more to be wrong than right; more often unjust than just. It is no friend to virtue, and always an enemy to happiness.

The measure of a man is what he does with power.

It is dangerous to be right in matters on which the established authorities are wrong.

Nobody is as powerful as we make them out to be.

The faith that stands on authority is not faith.

Ethics and power are separate.

There is that in the glance of a flower which may at times control the greatest of creation’s braggart lords.

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Most men are within a finger’s breadth of being mad.

Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war or corruption, or both.

Nevertheless, it is even harder for the average ape to believe that he has descended from man.

But men must know, that in this theatre of man’s life it is reserved only for God and angels to be lookers on.

She believed in nothing; only her skepticism kept her from being an atheist.

Men’s ideas are the most direct emanations of their material state.

There are only two kinds of men: the righteous who think they are sinners and the sinners who think they are righteous.

Nothing fortifies scepticism more than the fact that there are some who are not sceptics; if all were so, they would be wrong.

Actually, to be an effective person politically in this country, I think you have to be thirty or over, and also you have to be rich, well-placed, you have to be close to power. And I don’t think that young people, because they look young, can do much, as I think they are counterproductive.

The term ‚globalisation‘ is conventionally used to refer to the specific form of investor-rights integration designed by wealth and power, for their own interests.

It is the flash which appears, the thunderbolt will follow.

A cynical young person is almost the saddest sight to see, because it means that he or she has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.

The greater the power, the more dangerous the abuse.

One does not establish a dictatorship in order to safeguard a revolution; one makes a revolution in order to establish a dictatorship.

A pair of powerful spectacles has sometimes sufficed to cure a person in love.

Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.