If so many Americans are looking for the government to save them, then it is hard to have a dignified search for… — James Bovard Copy Share Image
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Marriage isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Let me tell you, honestly. Marriage is probably the chief cause of divorce. — Larry Gelbart Copy Share Image
The chief cause of failure and unhappiness is trading what you want most for what you want right now — Zig Ziglar Copy Share Image
An inadequate chief executive officer's time at the top is always too long no matter how short. — Malcolm Forbes Copy Share Image
The state of matrimony is the chief in the world after religion; but people shun it because of its inconveniences, like one… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
During my time we had two chairman of the joint chiefs of staff, at different times of course, on the bridge, both… — Patrick Stewart Copy Share Image
A general-in-chief should ask himself several times in the day, What if the enemy were to appear now in my front, or… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
I think it is appropriate when you look at the test that you have to meet to be commander-in-chief for Americans to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
One of the chief things which my typical man has to learn is that the mental faculties are capable of a continuous… — Arnold Bennett Copy Share Image
We see the Jew, then, in business, as promoter, money-lender, salesman par excellence, the author and chief instigator of a system of… — Samuel Roth Copy Share Image
There are those who offer themselves as leaders who even play politics with a nomination of our nations chief law enforcement officer,… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
Most of my writer friends are women, and they're all extremely talented, so of course I think the state of contemporary fiction… — Jami Attenberg Copy Share Image
I have asked some of the great white chiefs where they get their authority to say to the Indian that he shall… — Chief Joseph Copy Share Image
Dr. Johnson has said that the chief glory of a country arises from its authors. But then that is only as they… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
It has become the custom in our country to expect all Chief Executives, from the President down, to conduct activities analogous to… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
We are accustomed to live in hopes of good weather, a good harvest, a nice love-affair, hopes of becoming rich or getting… — Anton Chekhov Copy Share Image
An executive cannot gradually dismiss details. Business is made up of details and I notice that the chief executive who dismisses them… — Harvey S. Firestone Copy Share Image
On the whole, yes, I would rather be the Chief Justice of the United States, and a quieter life than that which… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
Surely the mischief of hypocrisy can never be enough inveighed against. When religion is in request, it is the chief malady of… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
One of the great things about the United States is that when it comes to world affairs, the president obviously is the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Whenever possible, I like to have the supreme head of a company show me over the works. It is extremely illuminating to… — B. C. Forbes Copy Share Image
The President, and government, will only control the militia when a part of them is in the actual service of the federal… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
Not only in geometry, but to a still more astonishing degree in physics, has it become more and more evident that as… — Hermann Weyl Copy Share Image
A surgeon will cut off a limb in order to protect the body from disease. And a commander-in-chief should pull out of… — Michael Huffington Copy Share Image
I don't know the man I admire more than [Charles Evans] Hughes. If ever I have the chance I shall offer him… — William Howard Taft Copy Share Image
this interesting subject, which, if the condition of man is to be progressively ameliorated, as we fondly hope and believe, is to… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
President [Barack] Obama did put together a task force on 21st Century Policing, led by Philadelphia police chief Charles Ramsey, to look… — Julianne Malveaux Copy Share Image
We have grown used to money. The handling, the increase of it, is the chief business of life now with most of… — Rebecca Harding Davis Copy Share Image
There is the fear, common to all English-only speakers, that the chief purpose of foreign languages is to make fun of us.… — Barbara Ehrenreich Copy Share Image
In battles two things are usually required of the Commander-in-Chief: to make a good plan for his army and, secondly, to keep… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
The chief source of man's inhumanity to man seems to be the tribal limits of his sense of obligation to other men. — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
I'm a storyteller - that's the chief function of a director. And they're moving pictures, let's make 'em move! — Howard Hawks Copy Share Image
Hence, a traveller should be a botanist, for in all views plants form the chief embellishment. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
The chief end of science is to make things clear, the educative aim is to foster the inquisitive spirit. — J. Arthur Thomson Copy Share Image
Man's chief difference from the brutes lies in the exuberant excess of his subjective propensities. Prune his extravagance, sober him, and you… — William James Copy Share Image
Today, as chief Of the guardians of the seas Of the land of the dawn, I gaze up with awe At the… — Isoroku Yamamoto Copy Share Image
We misjudge anybody who's different from us and the Jews diverge from our type, ethnically and religiously. That's their chief offense, but… — Reinhold Niebuhr Copy Share Image
If Hillary Clinton can be president, then one girl can be mayor. And someone else can be a police chief, and someone… — Amy Klobuchar Copy Share Image
The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on… — Mignon McLaughlin Copy Share Image