“A Tory minister can sleep in ten different women's beds in a week. A Labour minister gets it in the neck if he looks at his cook in a funny way.”— Clement Attlee
“We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.”— Abigail Adams
“He told us to imagine no possessions, and there he was, with millions of dollars and yachts and farms and country estates, laughing at people like me who had believed the lies.”— Mark David Chapman
“There are two things which a man should scrupulously avoid: giving advice that he does not follow, and asking advice when he is determined to reject it.”— Francis Atterbury
“The murder that is depicted as a horrible crime is repeated in cold blood, remorselessly.”— Cesare Beccaria
“The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”— Thomas Babington Macaulay
“The defenders of decent society and the disciples of degeneracy are often the same people.”— Caleb Carr
“The Puritans hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.”— Thomas Babington Macaulay
“Some people are so impossibly pious I wish I could give them a good hard kick in the pants.”— Miles Franklin
“Those of us who shout the loudest about Americanism in making character assassinations are all too frequently those who, by our own words and acts, ignore some of the basic principles of Americanism.”— Margaret Chase Smith
“I didn't have a problem with the NCAA, I had a problem with the hypocrisy of the NCAA.”— Brian Bosworth
“What is the use of being theoretically radical, and at the same time reactionary in one's personal contacts?”— Claude McKay
“It is time that Christians were judged more by their likeness to Christ than their notions of Christ.”— Lucretia Mott
“Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country.”— Bertrand Russell