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People who have given us their complete confidence believe that they have a right to ours. The inference is false, a gift confers no rights.

We're saying no changes for Medicare for people above the age of 55. And in order to keep the promise to current seniors who've already retired and organized their lives around this program, you have to reform it for the next generation.

The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

There is nothing the matter with Americans except their ideals. The real American is all right; it is the ideal American who is all wrong.

It's not surprising, then, they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren't like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.

Poets are like baseball pitchers. Both have their moments. The intervals are the tough things.

Lovers may be - and indeed generally are - enemies, but they never can be friends, because there must always be a spice of jealousy and a something of Self in all their speculations.

I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ.

The people are the government, administering it by their agents; they are the government, the sovereign power.

Men are not prisoners of fate, but only prisoners of their own minds.

Our errors are surely not such awfully solemn things. In a world where we are so certain to incur them in spite of all our caution, a certain lightness of heart seems healthier than this excessive nervousness on their behalf.

Children show me in their playful smiles the divine in everyone. This simple goodness shines straight from their hearts and only asks to be lived.

Gay men have to go through something to own their - who they are. They get beat up. They get ostracized. Whatever they go through, if they survive it, they come out very confident people.

Many gloat over their own troubles.

We should not judge people by their peak of excellence; but by the distance they have traveled from the point where they started.

History shows that the majority of people that have done anything great have passed their youth in seclusion.

Men have become the tools of their tools.

Let's be very honest about what this is about. It's not about bashing Democrats, it's not about taxes, they have no idea what the Boston tea party was about, they don't know their history at all. This is about hating a black man in the White House. This is racism straight up.

Man's unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

You can't just beat a team, you have to leave a lasting impression in their minds so they never want to see you again.

Books constitute capital. A library book lasts as long as a house, for hundreds of years. It is not, then, an article of mere consumption but fairly of capital, and often in the case of professional men, setting out in life, it is their only capital.

President Obama orders religious organizations to violate their conscience. I will defend religious liberty and overturn regulations that trample on our first freedom.

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

So when these people sell out, even though they get fabulously rich, they're gypping themselves out of one of the potentially most rewarding experiences of their unfolding lives. Without it, they may never know their values or how to keep their newfound wealth in perspective.

Men admire the man who can organize their wishes and thoughts in stone and wood and steel and brass.

Part of the reason for the ugliness of adults, in a child's eyes, is that the child is usually looking upwards, and few faces are at their best when seen from below.

The display of grief makes more demands than grief itself. How few men are sad in their own company.

I believe in human beings, and that all human beings should be respected as such, regardless of their color.

People are getting smarter nowadays; they are letting lawyers, instead of their conscience, be their guide.

The most loving parents and relatives commit murder with smiles on their faces. They force us to destroy the person we really are: a subtle kind of murder.