Chief Quotes

When we wrote the Constitution, the intention was to give the commander in chief the authority how to use the forces when you authorize him to be able to use the forces.

I was known as the chief grave robber of my state.

Ford used to come to work in a big car with two Admiral's flags, on each side of the car. His assistant would be there with his accordion, playing, Hail to the Chief.

At the conclusion of my argument I received very high compliments from the Chief Justice and later from other of the Judges. What they said I do not care to repeat.

The ability to make love frivolously is the chief characteristic which distinguishes human beings from beasts.

The home is the chief school of human virtues.

Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.

The chief value of money lies in the fact that one lives in a world in which it is overestimated.

The Stamp Act was a direct tax imposed on the colonies by King George III. This act inevitably led to the American Revolution. Just as the Stamp Act did in 1765, Obamacare should act as a wake-up call. Chief Justice Roberts provides us with a similar call to action.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

I was not content to believe in a personal devil and serve him, in the ordinary sense of the word. I wanted to get hold of him personally and become his chief of staff.

Books, like proverbs, receive their chief value from the stamp and esteem of the ages through which they have passed.

To get away from one's working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one's self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

It is one of the chief skills of the philosopher not to occupy himself with questions which do not concern him.

What men prize most is a privilege, even if it be that of chief mourner at a funeral.

The vanity of being known to be trusted with a secret is generally one of the chief motives to disclose it.

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.

The chief enemy of creativity is "good" sense.

Decisions! And a general, a commander in chief who has not got the quality of decision, then he is no good.

According to Richard Clarke, the former White House counterterrorism chief, Bush was so obsessed with Iraq that he failed to take action against Osama Bin Laden despite repeated warnings from his intelligence experts.

I come from a family of very devout, praying people. That idea of peace and love toward humanity shouldn't be nationalistic or denominational. It should be a chief concern for all mankind.

We need a little more 'Hail to the Chief.'

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.

I haven't heard from Bobby since May when we had our conversation, but then this thing broke last week, where they arrested him, and we were watching what was going on on the whole deal, and I was actually flabbergasted, at what the then police chief Parks was saying.

To teach how to live without certainty and yet without being paralysed by hesitation is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can do for those who study it.

The irony of the Supreme Court hearing on these cases last week and of the outright hostility that the Court has displayed against religion in recent years is that above the head of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court is a concrete display of the Ten Commandments.

The assertion of failure coming from such persons does not mean that Mr. Mill failed to promote the practical success of those objects the advocacy of which forms the chief feature of his political writings.

The chief virtue that language can have is clearness, and nothing detracts from it so much as the use of unfamiliar words.

I am fully prepared to be commander in chief... I don't need on-the-job training.