Men Quotes - Page 399

When the federal government spends more each year than it collects in tax revenues, it has three choices: It can raise taxes, print money, or borrow money. While these actions may benefit politicians, all three options are bad for average Americans.

Success lies, not in achieving what you aim at, but in aiming at what you ought to achieve, and pressing forward, sure of achievement here, or if not here, hereafter.

You can study government and politics in school, but the best way to really understand the process is to volunteer your time.

This is why Indians are thought to be stupid. They can't think, they don't know anything, they say. But we have hidden our identity because we needed to resist, we wanted to protect what governments have wanted to take away from us.

Whenever my environment had failed to support or nourish me, I had clutched at books.

So far as this has gone, I am satisfied to see a spirit prevailing that promises to send the system out free from those vexations and abuses that might be warranted by the terms of the Constitution. It must never be forgotten, however, that the liberties of the people are not so safe under the gracious manner of government, as by the limitation of power.

It's amazing how much of this is mental. Everybody's in good shape. Everybody knows how to ski. Everybody has good equipment. When it really boils down to it, it's who wants it the most, and who's the most confident on his skis.

The white man has got the gold out of the land which belonged to the red man.

The agreement to place the binational planning group at our new Northern Command was also signed in December.

One of the drawbacks to life is that it contains moments when one is compelled to tell the truth.

Nature: a place where birds fly around uncooked

The provisions of the Constitution are not mathematical formulas having their essence in their form; they are organic, living institutions transplanted from English soil. Their significance is vital, not formal; it is to be gathered not simply by taking the words and a dictionary, but by considering their origin and the line of their growth.

In an age in which the media broadcast countless pieces of foolishness, the educated man is defined not by what he knows, but by what he doesn't know.

There is no other way to guard yourself against flattery than by making men understand that telling you the truth will not offend you.

We remember not the scores and the results in after years; it is the men who remain in our minds, in our imagination.

Never underestimate the power of a woman.

Someone bemoaned that there were so few women in economics. But there are also very few men in economics.

A man works hard all week to keep his pants off all weekend.

Machines were mice and men were lions once upon a time. But now that it's the opposite it's twice upon a time.

A woman is a woman until the day she dies, but a man's man only as long as he can

Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.

The thing to judge in any jazz artist is, does the man project and does he have ideas.

The fight for the right to life is not the cause of a special few, but the cause of every man, woman and child who cares not only about his or her own family, but the whole family of man.

No love is Love that subjugates the Lover. No love is Love that feeds on flesh and blood. No love is Love that draws a woman to a man only to breed more women and men and thus perpetuate their bondage to the flesh.

When a young man, I read somewhere the following: God the Almighty said, 'All that is too complex is unnecessary, and it is simple that is needed.' So this has been my lifetime motto – I have been creating weapons to defend the borders of my fatherland, to be simple and reliable.