Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.

The truth doesn’t hurt unless it ought to.

Faith: not wanting to know what is true.

Justice is what is established; and thus all our established laws will necessarily be regarded as just without examination, since they are established.

People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much.

Tricks and treachery are the practice of fools, that don’t have brains enough to be honest.

Be not astonished at new ideas; for it is well known to you that a thing does not therefore cease to be true because it is not accepted by many.

My children love Maleficent’s voice, so they always make me do it at home.

We live in a bewildering world.

To educate a man in mind and not in morals is to educate a menace to society.

Wherever there is interest and power to do wrong, wrong will generally be done.

George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie.

As a single withered tree, if set aflame, causes a whole forest to burn, so does a rascal son destroy a whole family.

Justice consists in doing no injury to men; decency in giving them no offense.

A well-instructed people alone can be permanently a free people.

If you’re not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can’t be of very much use to yourself.

At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst.

I think the depth, what children can handle and what they’re interested in, is much deeper than I think what people assume. I think it’s why sometimes we make things too simple for them.

Isn’t it funny how babies laugh a lot? I read a toddler, a young child laughs 300 times a day. The average adult laughs, like, four times a day. God put it in them. He put the laugh in us, but I think sometimes we let life get us down, you know, have bad breaks, and we lose our breaks.

I’ll never tell a lie. I’ll never make a misleading statement. I’ll never betray the confidence that any of you had in me. And I’ll never avoid a controversial issue.

Acceptance of what has happened is the first step to overcoming the consequences of any misfortune.

Myths which are believed in tend to become true.

If art is to nourish the roots of our culture, society must set the artist free to follow his vision wherever it takes him.

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

My protest about the post exchange seating bore some results. More seats were allocated for blacks, but there were still separate sections for blacks and for whites. At least I had made my men realize that something could be accomplished by speaking out, and I hoped they would be less resigned to unjust conditions.

First, how do we give everyone a fair shot at opportunity and security in this new economy? Second, how do we make technology work for us, and not against us – especially when it comes to solving urgent challenges like climate change? Third, how do we keep America safe and lead the world without becoming its policeman?

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

I teach children to be winners.

We must reject the idea that every time a law’s broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.

Say not, ‚I have found the truth,‘ but rather, ‚I have found a truth.‘

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

We are proud of the history of our country; we learned it in school and have grown up hearing of freedom, justice and human rights.

Our object in the construction of the state is the greatest happiness of the whole, and not that of any one class.

The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you’ve got it made.

You always have to remember that if you say something negative, it’s going to come back to haunt you.

I don’t like people going behind my back.

Where there is no opposition to evil, it multiplies.

We have but one permanent home: heaven – that’s still the old truth that we always have to re-learn – and it’s only through the impact of sad experiences that we assimilate it.

Society is at odds with itself.

To sit back hoping that someday, some way, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last – but eat you he will.

No people is wholly civilized where a distinction is drawn between stealing an office and stealing a purse.

The society based on production is only productive, not creative.

There has to be a global mission of human progress.

It is hard to imagine a more stupid or more dangerous way of making decisions than by putting those decisions in the hands of people who pay no price for being wrong.

Lettin‘ the cat outta the bag is a whole lot easier ‚n puttin‘ it back in.

I’ll be honest: I haven’t ruled politics out.

Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn’t.

I suppose society is wonderfully delightful. To be in it is merely a bore. But to be out of it is simply a tragedy.

The most costly of all follies is to believe passionately in the palpably not true. It is the chief occupation of mankind.

In the consciousness of the truth he has perceived, man now sees everywhere only the awfulness or the absurdity of existence and loathing seizes him.

Where there is righteousness in the heart, there is harmony in the house; when there is harmony in the house, there is order in the nation; when there is order in the nation, there is peace in the world.

I really don’t like women who try to be men. All these politicians, I think they’re horrendous. We could have a brilliant future, but we have this terrible male vision of destroying everything. They’d better sort themselves out and become more womanly.

It is clearly better that property should be private, but the use of it common; and the special business of the legislator is to create in men this benevolent disposition.

All that we call ideal in Greek or any other art, because to us it is false and visionary, was, to the makers of it, true and existent.

At Real, psychological pressure on the players is much more serious than at United. This is good. At many clubs, you don’t know the consequence of playing badly.

Nature never deceives us; it is we who deceive ourselves.

All the United States, it is a society that is split like to the bottom, that had very poor people in the country that is one of the wealthiest countries.

All my stepchildren carried the burden of my fame. Sometimes they would read terrible things about me, and I’d worry about whether it would hurt them. I would tell them: ‚Don’t hide these things from me. I’d rather you ask me these things straight out, and I’ll answer all your questions.‘

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

The ultimate tendency of civilization is towards barbarism.

Men make history and not the other way around. In periods where there is no leadership, society stands still. Progress occurs when courageous, skillful leaders seize the opportunity to change things for the better.