The ‚public‘ scares me, but people I trust.

Nothing is more fearful than imagination without taste.

If men were angels, no government would be necessary.

Democratic societies are unfit for the publication of such thunderous revelations as I am in the habit of making.

My evidence that I am saved does not lie in the fact that I preach, or that I do this or that. All my hope lies in this: that Jesus Christ came to save sinners. I am a sinner, I trust Him, then He came to save me, and I am saved.

Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.

Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy.

Extremely religious, legalistic people have a criticism or judgment about everyone and everything. They just have a way of bringing people down with what they say.

Only he can take great resolves who has indomitable faith in God and has fear of God.

The people of Northern Ireland have sorted out my whole life.

One can be instructed in society, one is inspired only in solitude.

Fear defeats more people than any other one thing in the world.

Deeply earnest and thoughtful people stand on shaky footing with the public.

How very little can be done under the spirit of fear.

Trust should be the basis for all our moral training.

The momentum of freedom in our world is unmistakable – and it is not carried forward by our power alone. We can trust in that greater power Who guides the unfolding of the years. And in all that is to come, we can know that His purposes are just and true.

You are only afraid if you are not in harmony with yourself. People are afraid because they have never owned up to themselves.

People forget… that we structured it so that the government, or the people, would be repaid with a really good rate of return. And as it turns out, that aspect of TARP, that’s what happened.

If we do not maintain justice, justice will not maintain us.

It’s so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that you should do otherwise. The alternative is being an iceberg.

Each new generation born is in effect an invasion of civilization by little barbarians, who must be civilized before it is too late.

I think people inspire me the most. If I meet a person who is incredibly complex, and all of a sudden, I start thinking in rhymes, that person could be a muse.

The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government, is to live under the government of worse men.

The Internet didn’t get invented on its own. Government research created the Internet so that all the companies could make money off the Internet. The point is, is that when we succeed, we succeed because of our individual initiative, but also because we do things together.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it… that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

I believe God’s keeping the records, and I believe you will be rewarded even in this life. Somehow, some way, God will make it up to you. It may be He protected you from an accident you never knew. You can’t give God something without God giving you more in return, whether it’s peace or joy or satisfaction.

We have entered an age in which education is not just a luxury permitting some men an advantage over others. It has become a necessity without which a person is defenseless in this complex, industrialized society. We have truly entered the century of the educated man.

I think a number of the leaders are, whether you like it or not, in the hip-hop generation. And when they understand enough, they’ll do wonders. I count on them.

It is necessary for him who lays out a state and arranges laws for it to presuppose that all men are evil and that they are always going to act according to the wickedness of their spirits whenever they have free scope.

That sort of half sigh, which, accompanied by two or three slight nods of the head, is pity’s small change in general society.

With compassion you can die for other people, like the mother who can die for her child. You have the courage to say it because you are not afraid of losing anything, because you know that understanding and love is the foundation of happiness. But if you have fear of losing your status, your position, you will not have the courage to do it.

The Constitution preserves the advantage of being armed which Americans possess over the people of almost every other nation where the governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.

Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all.

People are terrified of me, and I want them to be.

Men have a respect for scholarship and learning greatly out of proportion to the use they commonly serve.

Great countries are those that produce great people.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

Do the thing you fear most and the death of fear is certain.

Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.

The intelligence of the creature known as a crowd, is the square root of the number of people in it.

Have no fear of perfection – you’ll never reach it.

The good of the people is the greatest law.

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

If you treat people right they will treat you right… ninety percent of the time.

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.

If an injury has to be done to a man it should be so severe that his vengeance need not be feared.

To keep your secret is wisdom; but to expect others to keep it is folly.

The Lord can give, and the Lord can take away. I might be herding sheep next year.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

No one loves the man whom he fears.

Even after Independence, we have had to face the poison of casteism and communalism. How long these evils will continue? Whom does it benefit?

I don’t have time to be lonely. And I get fearful of relationships because I feel guilty about wanting someone to be completely faithful and loyal, when I can’t even give them 10 percent of the attention that they need. It’s just the reality of my time, my life, my schedule.

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

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

We don’t have to let extremists define us.

Never trust any complicated cocktail that remains perfectly clear until the last ingredient goes in, and then immediately clouds.

All in all, I just don’t trust journalists – and I don’t think it’s a good practice for me to trust journalists.

It’s hard knowing who to trust with your personal life. When you cry in your room at night, you don’t always know who to call. So I am very close to my family.

Hatreds not vowed and concealed are to be feared more than those openly declared.

Acting is just a process of relaxation, actually. Knowing the text so well and trusting that the instinct and the subconscious mind, whatever you want to call it, is going to take over.

Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.