People really had a problem with my disinterest in submission. They had a problem with my intellect, and they had a problem with my choice of lovers. They had a problem with my choice of everything.

The people of Egypt are an intelligent people with a glorious history who left their mark on civilization.

Leadership is a choice, not a position.

Our philosophy is that we care about people first.

Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government.

It’s not a faith in technology. It’s faith in people.

In a country with millions of people and cars going everywhere, the enemy is going to get a car bomb out there once in awhile.

I don’t usually admire Sarah Palin, but when she was making fun of this ‚hopey changey stuff,‘ she was right: there was nothing there.

For all right judgment of any man or things it is useful, nay, essential, to see his good qualities before pronouncing on his bad.

I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies, but not the madness of people.

I like criticism. It makes you strong.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Curiosity is one of the most permanent and certain characteristics of a vigorous intellect.

The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.

Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion.

Their is no defense against criticism except obscurity.

To understand the true quality of people, you must look into their minds, and examine their pursuits and aversions.

I’ve realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don’t trust my instincts – Thats when I get in trouble.

There is no body of theory or significant body of relevant information, beyond the comprehension of the layman, which makes policy immune from criticism.

If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.

If you would judge, understand.

We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.

The people of England are the most enthusiastic in the world.

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

He who acts with a constant view to his own advantage will be much murmured against.

‚Star Wars‘ is fun, its exciting, its inspirational, and people respond to that. It’s what they want.

I think – I don’t know, maybe it’s nostalgia. But the choice, losing the choice to be able to use film is going to be – it’s gone. It’s going to be gone.

America is just downright mean.

There’s plenty to criticize about the mass media, but they are the source of regular information about a wide range of topics. You can’t duplicate that on blogs.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct.

Nothing is beautiful, only man: on this piece of naivete rests all aesthetics, it is the first truth of aesthetics. Let us immediately add its second: nothing is ugly but degenerate man – the domain of aesthetic judgment is therewith defined.

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.

There is a road from the eye to heart that does not go through the intellect.

If a man is proud of his wealth, he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

I try to teach through my opinions, through my speeches, how wrong it is to judge people on the basis of what they look like, color of their skin, whether they’re men or women.

Every mind must make its choice between truth and repose. It cannot have both.

When you judge another, you do not define them, you define yourself.

You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him.

The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice; their choice!

Saints should always be judged guilty until they are proved innocent.

The only thing that could spoil a day was people. People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

If I’m the people’s poet, then I ought to be in people’s hands – and, I hope, in their heart.

Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

The mainstream is always under attack.

I like some animals more than some people, some people more than some animals.

A puritan is a person who pours righteous indignation into the wrong things.

The only time people dislike gossip is when you gossip about them.

After the first International Days of Protest in October, 1965, Senator Mansfield criticized the ‚sense of utter irresponsibility‘ shown by the demonstrators.

I think God gives every one of us our own will, and unfortunately, some people choose to do evil things with it.

Money does not change people, people change.

I am for people. I can’t help it.

Most of the people that I deal with are human. So I’ve had a lot of experience with that.

You’re president, if you conclude my judgment is not the right judgment, I abide by that, but I want an opportunity to have an input.

I believe there are more instances of the abridgement of freedom of the people by gradual and silent encroachments by those in power than by violent and sudden usurpations.

There are four Powers: memory and intellect, desire and covetousness. The two first are mental and the others sensual. The three senses: sight, hearing and smell cannot well be prevented; touch and taste not at all.

Don’t judge other people. For example, if you want God’s anointing to be on you for parenting, you need to be careful not to criticize other parents.

This country, with its institutions, belongs to the people who inhabit it. Whenever they shall grow weary of the existing government, they can exercise their constitutional right of amending it, or exercise their revolutionary right to overthrow it.