It means, people who are in high and responsible positions, if they go against righteousness, righteousness itself will get transformed into a destroyer.

The world is weary of statesmen whom democracy has degraded into politicians.

It is now quite lawful for a Catholic woman to avoid pregnancy by a resort to mathematics, though she is still forbidden to resort to physics or chemistry.

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

Principles are guidelines for human conduct that are proven to have enduring, permanent value.

A President needs political understanding to run the government, but he may be elected without it.

I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You’ve got to just stand there and take it.

Is it not enough to know the evil to shun it? If not, we should be sincere enough to admit that we love evil too well to give it up.

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

If you want to occupy the C-suite or the top one-tenth of 1% in any organization, you have to be obsessively devoted to your career at the expense of everything else. And women look at that, and they think, ‚No.‘

You know, you can only lead them from behind.

Many people listen to what I have to say and I appear a lot in media, so therefore I influence a lot of people and therefore I have a bigger responsibility because I have a bigger platform.

God is dead. God remains dead. And we have killed him. Yet his shadow still looms. How shall we comfort ourselves, the murderers of all murderers? What was holiest and mightiest of all that the world has yet owned has bled to death under our knives; who will wipe this blood off us? What water is there for us to clean ourselves?

The American President resembles the commander of a ship at sea. He must have a helm to grasp, a course to steer, a port to seek.

It’s what counts, isn’t it, on the Sunday, rather than pre-season testing. If you lock up, you do a little mistake, it’s nothing, but if you do it on Sunday, you lose a place or you have to box for a flat spot or something like that. It’s a much bigger problem.

I just usually go with my own taste. If I like something, and it happens to be against the law, well, then I might have a problem.

You know I vowed when I became President not to talk about the loneliest toughest job in the world and I didn’t.

I can not believe that war is the best solution. No one won the last war, and no one will win the next war.

The commander in the field is always right and the rear echelon is wrong, unless proved otherwise.

Do FBI Agents and FBI directors have political beliefs? Sure they do. But they’re not supposed to act on them.

A lot of people have a sense-of-entitlement mentality that somebody else ought to do these things for them. People are mad at the government for not getting jobs for them. I don’t understand why it’s the government’s responsibility.

Do your duty and a little more and the future will take care of itself.

You can tell the tree by the fruit it bears. You see it through what the organization is delivering as far as a concrete program. If the tree’s fruit sours or grows brackish, then the time has come to chop it down – bury it and walk over it and plant new seeds.

By that sin fell the angels.

In America the President reigns for four years, and Journalism governs forever and ever.

Fear follows crime and is its punishment.

The art of delegation is one of the key skills any entrepreneur must master.

Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right answer. Let us not seek to fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own responsibility for the future.

President Obama seems completely unaware of how many of the policies he is trying to impose have been tried before, in many times and places around the world, and have failed time and again.

The minute you got the Nobel Peace Prize, things that I said yesterday, with nobody paying too much attention, I say the same things after I got it – oh! It was quite crucial for people, and it helped our morale because apartheid did look invincible.

He who dreads hostility too much is unfit to rule.

The British people know that, given strong leadership, time, and a little bit of hope, the forces of good ultimately rally and triumph over evil.

Big jobs usually go to the men who prove their ability to outgrow small ones.

With Malice toward none, with charity for all, with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in, to bind up the nation’s wounds.

The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life.

Foolish men imagine that because judgment for an evil thing is delayed, there is no justice; but only accident here below. Judgment for an evil thing is many times delayed some day or two, some century or two, but it is sure as life, it is sure as death.

The first step in the evolution of ethics is a sense of solidarity with other human beings.

To be safe at the expense of the liberty of other people is a difficult equation.

We must think and act like a nation of a billion people and not like that of a million people. Dream, dream, dream!

I desire to press forward for direction to my Master in all things; but as to trusting to my own obedience and righteousness, I should be worse than a fool and ten times worse than a madman.

No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye.

It’s OK to have your eggs in one basket as long as you control what happens to that basket.

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

The violence in the Bible is appalling.

Those of us who submitted or surrendered our ideas and dreams and identities to the ‚leaders‘ must take back our rights, our identities, our responsibilities.

In my view, the only thing worse than a rock star is a rock star with a conscience.

I was sure I’d set the world on fire, and it was hard for a young feller like me to realize the truth – that I hadn’t set the world on fire, and I was totally unprepared to handle the consequences if ‚The Big Trail‘ had been a success and launched me as a star.

I am not deeply involved in Australian politics but I know there are prime ministers, governments around the world who are not acting responsibly in relation to climate change.

Reverence for life affords me my fundamental principle of morality.

One of the great questions of philosophy is, do we innately have morality, or do we get it from celestial dictation? A study of the Ten Commandments is a very good way of getting into and resolving that issue.

In a world of complex threats, our security and leadership depends on all elements of our power – including strong and principled diplomacy.

After 2014, we will support a unified Afghanistan as it takes responsibility for its own future.

I can make more generals, but horses cost money.

Shame may restrain what law does not prohibit.

Science is the captain, and practice the soldiers.

When the tyrant has disposed of foreign enemies by conquest or treaty, and there is nothing more to fear from them, then he is always stirring up some war or other, in order that the people may require a leader.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

The greatest day in your life and mine is when we take total responsibility for our attitudes. That’s the day we truly grow up.

Ethics is in origin the art of recommending to others the sacrifices required for cooperation with oneself.

Show me a poorly uniformed troop and I’ll show you a poorly uniformed leader.

Romney and Ryan would do a much better job running the country, and that’s what everybody needs to know.