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Let us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
Gentleness brings victory to him who attacks, and safety to him who defends. Those whom Heaven would save, it fences round with gentleness.
I think now Somalia is turning a corner and we can, with the new political development, build on momentum - really build a peaceful future.
When our government is spoken of as some menacing, threatening, foreign entity, it ignores the fact that in our democracy, government is us
And if Bradley Manning really did as he is accused, he is a hero, an example to us all and one of the world's foremost political prisoners.
I'm not a fan in a rock concert, you see. I am a political leader in a great nation of the world. What interests me are France's interests.
I am nervous about dogmas of any kind, whether they be religious, political, or anti-religious. Too many heads have rolled because of them.
Public control of the political process requires public financing. The restoration of our American Democracy depends upon public financing.
A man or a ruler should always take up a task after thoroughly considering its consequences. Otherwise fate also cannot protect his wealth.
The one thing government has which we (you or I or any corporation) DON'T have, is the ability to use deadly force to accomplish its goals.
Dealing with Hollywood and commercial entertainment, you always have to worry that the political message is going to be skewed or obscured.
It is conceivable that at some point a truly united and powerful European Union could become a global political rival to the United States.
The information of the people at large can alone make them the safe as they are the sole depositary of our political and religious freedom.
If a man's public record be a clear one, if he has kept his pledges before the world, I do not inquire what his private life may have been.
The Senate is a place filled with goodwill and good intentions, and if the road to hell is paved with them, then it's a pretty good detour.
I want to be the president for all Americans, regardless of your political beliefs, where you come from, what you look like, your religion.
Partisans fight on familiar territory with professed political objectives to conquer power. This is what distinguishes them from terrorists
People that had the guts to put their loyalty to the Constitution ahead of their loyalty to their political party were citizen legislators.
Nationalism is a tool increasingly used by leaders to bolster their authority, especially amid difficult economic and political conditions.
It is the Press which has corrupted our political morals - and it is to the Press we must look for the means of our political regeneration.
To the very limited extent that I have a political consciousness, to some extent I'm a lazy, apolitical sort of guy that just flits around.
He was the only man I ever knew who could get money from the rich and votes from the poor with the promise to protect them from each other.
It's been encouraging to hear the pope talking about climate change and take it away from being a political issue to being one of survival.
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English usurper.
I believe you [Samuel Alito] and others would look and say that the role of the courts is limited and it's not to decide political matters.
The bottom has fallen out of America's wage floor. And the erosion of the minimum wage has lowered pay and working standards for all of us.
A person or a ruler who executes his plans (of public welfare) after due consideration, the prosperity stands with him for a longer period.
I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.
Prudence is not only the first in rank of the virtues political and moral, but she is the director and regulator, the standard of them all.
I am struck by the fact that personal faith and political agendas are intertwined more closely now than at any other time in recent history.
My passion strengthens daily to quit political turmoil, and retire into the bosom of my family, the only scene of sincere and purehappiness.
Indonesian people have no idea whom they are actually voting for, or of what their political system consists of. It is so easy to fool them.
The basis of effective government is public confidence, and that confidence is endangered when ethical standards falter or appear to falter.
We have retained the forms and phrases of a republic, but in reality we are living under an oligarchy, not of courtesan, but of bureaucrats.
The political system is broken, the economy is broken and so is society. That is why people are so depressed about the state of our country.
Anyone who tells you that one political party has a monopoly on the best defense of our nation is committing a fraud on the American people.
I love Mikhail Bulgakov. He is very original and takes the story to unexpected places. I didn't realise political writing could be so funny.
A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
America's political system used to be about the pursuit of happiness. Now More and more of us want to stop chasing it and have it delivered.
In another life, before taking the veil of journalistic purity, I practiced the black arts of a political operative, including 'debate prep.
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
It is therefore wish'd that all commerce were as free between all the nations of the world as it is between the several counties of England.
I like that Ben & Jerry's is willing to speak out about social and political issues that aren't always safe - but are the right thing to do.
Politics are about power; we cannot evade that truth or its consequences. We dream of a better world but it is in Utopia - that is, nowhere.
It's not that Michelle Obama is trying to conceal her true feelings, it's that she does not want to be a political liability to her husband.
Good analysis is very useful when you want to convert a political decision into an investment. It can also go the other way and drive policy
It's this upside-down world that we live in where we afford political correctness to the most intolerant group of individuals on the planet.
From the beginning of our history the country has been afflicted with compromise. It is by compromise that human rights have been abandoned.
It seems to me that President Carter has earned his place as if not the worst president in history, the worst president of the 20th Century.
My exile was not only a physical one, motivated exclusively by political reasons; it was also a moral, social, ideological and sexual exile.