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Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.

The US military still blames the media for stories and images that turned the American public against the war in Vietnam.

Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men.

It's not the events of our lives that shape us, but our beliefs as to what those events mean.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

Why is it that our memory is good enough to retain the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not good enough to recollect how often we have told it to the same person?

But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries from outside, and they weaken us from within with ideas like secularism, liberalism and democracy. This is all designed to contaminate our pure Islam.

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.

Each of us is meant to have a character all our own, to be what no other can exactly be, and do what no other can exactly do.

God wants to bless us where we are.

Our work is before us. It cannot be passed to future legislatures and must not be passed to future generations. May we boldly seize the moment with singular unity. And may we build a Texas of unlimited possibility.

Of all the things Christ wants for us, loving Him and focusing our attention on Him are the most important.

I support gay marriage. I believe they have a right to be as miserable as the rest of us.

We long for an affection altogether ignorant of our faults. Heaven has accorded this to us in the uncritical canine attachment.

Experience - the wisdom that enables us to recognise in an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced.

The best way to help Burma is to empower the people of Burma, to help us have enough self-confidence to obtain what we want for ourselves.

All our knowledge merely helps us to die a more painful death than animals that know nothing.

If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us do we not die? And if you wrong us shall we not revenge?

The clearest way to show what the rule of law means to us in everyday life is to recall what has happened when there is no rule of law.

Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.

Society has taught us to suppress certain things and not do certain things.

Each year one vicious habit discarded, in time might make the worst of us good.

Were British protesters, armed with little more than a frisbee and a bag of plastic toy soldiers, really in danger of being shot by the US military in Gloucestershire?

Every one of us is, even from his mother's womb, a master craftsman of idols.

If humanity does not opt for integrity we are through completely. It is absolutely touch and go. Each one of us could make the difference.

Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other.

In the misfortunes of our best friends we always find something not altogether displeasing to us.

Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.

The biggest difference is in the leadership. It was better for us. We had more coaches and mentors to help us. A lot of the younger players today suffer from a lack of direction.

So much of what is best in us is bound up in our love of family, that it remains the measure of our stability because it measures our sense of loyalty. All other pacts of love or fear derive from it and are modeled upon it.