Them Quotes

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.

Our prime purpose in this life is to help others. And if you can't help them, at least don't hurt them.

Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer.

In the myopic world of the liberals, guns are responsible for evil instead of the perpetrator of evil. But criminals are not bound by our laws. That's what makes them criminals.

We cannot fashion our children after our desires, we must have them and love them as God has given them to us.

Men are what their mothers made them.

I don't like my hockey sticks touching other sticks, and I don't like them crossing one another, and I kind of have them hidden in the corner. I put baby powder on the ends. I think it's essentially a matter of taking care of what takes care of you.

There are people, who the more you do for them, the less they will do for themselves.

There are many people in the world who really don't understand-or say they don't-what is the great issue between the free world and the Communist world. Let them come to Berlin!

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first, therefore, to seek them blindfold, and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.

Some people break promises for the pleasure of breaking them.

What makes the pain we feel from shame and jealousy so cutting is that vanity can give us no assistance in bearing them.

If you can, help others; if you cannot do that, at least do not harm them.

You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.

In our brief national history we have shot four of our presidents, worried five of them to death, impeached one and hounded another out of office. And when all else fails, we hold an election and assassinate their character.

My kids say if there's any family dinner that doesn't result in somebody crying, it's not a good dinner. They cry because it helps relieve them of a guilt or some onerous emotional burden. It's like a family tradition.

Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.

They did it to try and belittle me, to try and to take away my pride. But I went through the whole system with them. And at the end, I - I wanted the public to know that I was okay, even though I was hurting.

Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever remains to them?

When I was a boy, the Sioux owned the world. The sun rose and set on their land; they sent ten thousand men to battle. Where are the warriors today? Who slew them? Where are our lands? Who owns them?

Leaders must be close enough to relate to others, but far enough ahead to motivate them.

The way to crush the bourgeoisie is to grind them between the millstones of taxation and inflation.

The people are the only legitimate fountain of power, and it is from them that the constitutional charter, under which the several branches of government hold their power, is derived.

It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.

Our life of poverty is as necessary as the work itself. Only in heaven will we see how much we owe to the poor for helping us to love God better because of them.

If we examine our thoughts, we shall find them always occupied with the past and the future.

Life opens up opportunities to you, and you either take them or you stay afraid of taking them.