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The slightest acquaintance with history shows that powerful republics are the most warlike and unscrupulous of nations.

Courage is the most important of all the virtues, because without courage you can't practice any other virtue consistently. You can practice any virtue erratically, but nothing consistently without courage.

Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all.

The megalomaniac differs from the narcissist by the fact that he wishes to be powerful rather than charming, and seeks to be feared rather than loved. To this type belong many lunatics and most of the great men of history.

Where trade unions are most firmly organized, there are the rights of the people most respected.

Politeness, n: The most acceptable hypocrisy.

One of the most beautiful passages of Rousseau is that in the sixth book of Confessions, where he describes the awakening in him of the literary sense. Of such wisdom, the poetic passion, the desire of beauty, the love of art for its own sake, has most.

The greenhorn is the ultimate victor in everything; it is he that gets the most out of life.

Two things awe me most, the starry sky above me and the moral law within me.

I think that for the most part, when I started doing comedy, it had become very commercialized.

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Developments in information technology and globalised media mean that the most powerful military in the history of the world can lose a war, not on the battlefield of dust and blood, but on the battlefield of world opinion.

What has been forgotten is that there were major intellectual breakthroughs in the 1960s, thanks to North American writers of an older generation. There was a rupture in continuity, since most young people influenced by those breakthroughs did not enter the professions.

As soon as I got out there I felt a strange relationship with the pitcher's mound. It was as if I'd been born out there. Pitching just felt like the most natural thing in the world. Striking out batters was easy.

A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.

I was extended secret service protection during my presidential run in 1984, when I received the most death threats ever made toward a candidate.

I believe the most solemn duty of the American president is to protect the American people. If America shows uncertainty and weakness in this decade, the world will drift toward tragedy. This will not happen on my watch.

Grand opera is the most powerful of stage appeals and that almost entirely through the beauty of music.

I'm strictly for Stevenson. I don't dig the intellectual bit, but I'm telling you, man, he knows the most.

To say that a work of art is good, but incomprehensible to the majority of men, is the same as saying of some kind of food that it is very good but that most people can't eat it.

I feel like I have had the most amazing life in my public service.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

Most of the fundamental ideas of science are essentially simple, and may, as a rule, be expressed in a language comprehensible to everyone.

Most importantly, the meaning of spirituality lays the seeds for our destiny and the path we must follow.

The most violent element in society is ignorance.

The most beautiful thing in the world is a ballpark filled with people.

The kids out there want something they can relate to, something that's real; most of that whiny stuff isn't real. The cheesy pop songs just bore me to death.

Men always talk about the most important things to perfect strangers. In the perfect stranger we perceive man himself; the image of a God is not disguised by resemblances to an uncle or doubts of wisdom of a mustache.

Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.

Most people have no idea how to politely answer a phone. The English do, and it's been their only major business advantage for the past two centuries.