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.

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

You’re innocent until proven guilty.

I had never been in charge of anything. I’d always worked for someone. I worked for a furniture warehouse. I did masonry. I always had a boss yelling at me. So I’d never been in charge of an organization.

To compromise simply means that you go a tiny bit below what you know is right.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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.

Military justice is to justice what military music is to music.

Every man gotta right to decide his own destiny.

He who does not prevent a crime when he can, encourages it.

Want of foresight, unwillingness to act when action would be simple and effective, lack of clear thinking, confusion of counsel until the emergency comes, until self-preservation strikes its jarring gong – these are the features which constitute the endless repetition of history.

My parents had us in church every Sunday, every Wednesday. It was more of a tradition at that point; I didn’t have a personal relationship with the Lord until I went to the altar call one Sunday, and the youth pastor told us to make a decision for ourselves.

It is even better to act quickly and err than to hesitate until the time of action is past.

Giving responsibility is the key to success with boys, especially with the rowdiest and most difficult boys.

I strongly believe that for serious and violent criminals, we must absolutely hold them accountable for their crimes and send them to prison.

I’m for women choosing whatever they want to do but they have to really know what they are doing.

If we must not act save on a certainty, we ought not to act on religion, for it is not certain. But how many things we do on an uncertainty, sea voyages, battles!

Life is not long, and too much of it must not pass in idle deliberation how it shall be spent.

Jump out the window if you are the object of passion. Flee it if you feel it. Passion goes, boredom remains.

For the sake of peace and justice, let us move toward a world in which all people are at last free to determine their own destiny.

I don’t think you ever really know what all you’re doing, so you have to act on faith.

Honor and shame from no condition rise. Act well your part: there all the honor lies.

It does not take much strength to do things, but it requires great strength to decide on what to do.

Our lives are a sum total of the choices we have made.

I have never been a quitter. To leave office before my term is completed is opposed to every instinct in my body. But as president I must put the interests of America first Therefore, I shall resign the presidency effective at noon tomorrow.

Revenge is a kind of wild justice, which the more a man’s nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out.

A precedent embalms a principle.

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.

Men should be either treated generously or destroyed, because they take revenge for slight injuries – for heavy ones they cannot.

It’s so easy to settle for less than God’s best for us because we don’t always feel like taking responsibility for our behavior or putting forth some effort to do what we need to do so we can accomplish great things for God and help people. But the cost of settling for less is actually harder than being completely obedient to God’s will.

We will burn that bridge when we come to it.

The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice.

It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.

Probable impossibilities are to be preferred to improbable possibilities.

And oftentimes excusing of a fault doth make the fault the worse by the excuse.

My authoritarian and quick manner of making decisions led me to have serious problems and to be accused of being ultraconservative. I have never been a right-winger. It was my authoritarian way of making decisions that created problems.

I won’t do something unless I can get at least two or three good laughs out of it. If I can’t, it’s not gonna make the team.

I do not think psychoanalysis has a scientific basis. If we can’t explain why a cockroach decides to turn left, how can we explain why a human being decides to do something?

You don’t send people to prison on the basis of what other people imagine, or on the basis of media sound bites like ‚shooting an unarmed child,‘ when that ‚child‘ was beating him bloody.

As to marriage or celibacy, let a man take which course he will, he will be sure to repent.

Defending peace is the duty of all.

The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.

Mission presidents hold keys of responsibility for the welfare, safety, and success of their missionaries.

We all have the duty to do good.

I don’t know what’s better gettin‘ laid or gettin‘ paid.

Justice is the set and constant purpose which gives every man his due.

One must verify or expel his doubts, and convert them into the certainty of Yes or NO.

Some people say that the climate crisis is something that we will have created, but that is not true, because if everyone is guilty then no one is to blame. And someone is to blame.

When making your choice in life, do not neglect to live.

Unless a president can protect the privacy of the advice he gets, he cannot get the advice he needs.

My friends ask me if I want more kids, and I always say yes, I want more; it’s the best thing you can have in your life.

The other day the President said, I know you’ve had some rough times, and I want to do something that will show the nation what faith that I have in you, in your maturity and sense of responsibility. He paused, then said, would you like a puppy?

One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being governed by your inferiors.

Justice is truth in action.

I was offered a job on Wall Street by my uncle. But I wanted to get out. Make-it-on-my-own kinda thing.

Truth never damages a cause that is just.

I think some of my colleagues‘ spicier lines are distracting. They draw attention away from what the justice is trying to say.

Judge Afiuni has suffered enough. She has been subject to acts of violence and humiliations to undermine her human dignity. I am convinced that she must be set free.

There is the good and the bad, the great and the low, the just and the unjust. I swear to you that all that will never change.

I am always wary of decisions made hastily. I am always wary of the first decision, that is, the first thing that comes to my mind if I have to make a decision. This is usually the wrong thing. I have to wait and assess, looking deep into myself, taking the necessary time.

I want to be very clear: I will not sign on to any health plan that adds to our deficits over the next decade.