I.B. George Quotes

May Heaven to this Union continue its beneficence

I use no Porter ... in my family, but such as is made in America: both these articles may now be purchased of an excellent quality.

It gives me real concern to observe ... that you should think it necessary to distinguish between my personal and public character, and confine your esteem to the former.

The arrows of malevolence ... however barbed and well pointed, never can reach the most vulnerable part of me; though, whilst I am up as a mark, they will be continually aimed.

Though, when a people shall have become incapable of governing themselves and fit for a master, it is of little consequence from what quarter he comes.

I am for free commerce with all nations; political connection with none; and little or no diplomatic establishment

Being a politician makes your hair turn white.

The United States enjoy a scene of prosperity and tranquility under the new government that could hardly have been hoped for.

An ambassador has no need of spies; his character is always sacred.

I wish to walk in such a line as will give most general satisfaction.

We should amuse our evening hours of life in cultivating the tender plants, and bringing them to perfection, before they are transplanted to a happier clime.

To place any dependence upon militia, is, assuredly, resting upon a broken staff.

Extensive powers not exercised as far as was necessary have, I believe, scarcely ever failed to ruin the possessor.

To acknowledge the receipt of letters is always proper, to remove doubts of their miscarriage.

Submit your sentiments with diffidence. A dictatorial style, though it may carry conviction, is always accompanied with disgust.

It is to be lamented that great characters are seldom without a blot.

Everybody knows the Lord loveth a cheerful giver.

It can't be Sunday every day. There are also Mondays and Tuesdays.

I am always successful in my work.

In the Church the transformative power of the Eucharist is experienced through the dignified celebration of Holy Mass, and people are empowered for mission because of that.

And I've known people who came out with a sense of torture.

All who love are conspirators.

Americans complain a lot about the government and they voice a generalized suspicion of the government, but they constantly clammer for more of it.

What the federal government does basically is borrow money from people and mail it to people.

All I remember about my wedding day in 1967 is that the Cubs lost a double-header.

One radical free spirit nonconformist is pretty much like another.

The cultivation - even celebration - of victimhood by intellectuals, tort lawyers, politicians and the media is both cause and effect of today's culture of complaint.

Politicians fascinate because they constitute such a paradox; they are an elite that accomplishes mediocrity for the public good.

Creative semantics is the key to contemporary government; it consists of talking in strange tongues lest the public learn the inevitable inconveniently early.

It (baseball) has no clock, no ties and no Liberal intrusions into the organized progression.

Actually, there is only one first question of government, and it is How should we live? or What kind of people do we want our citizens to be?

Like a snail crossing a sidewalk, the Clinton Administration leaves a lengthening trail of slime, this time on America's national honor.

They are supposed to be dispassionate dispensers of Pure Justice, icy islands of emotionless calculation. In short, umpires should be acute Republicans.

If your job is to leaven ordinary lives with elevating spectacle, be elevating or be gone.

Capital punishment, like the rest of the criminal justice system, is a government program, so skepticism is in order.

Football brings out the sociologist that lurks in some otherwise respectable citizens. They say football is a metaphor for America's sinfulness.

Today more Americans are imprisoned for drug offenses than for property crimes

Good taste consists first upon fitness.

A river is the cosiest of friends. You must love it and live with it before you can know it.

Virtue does not truly reward her votary if she leaves him sad and half doubtful whether it would not have been better to serve vice.

There are two things in the world that can never get together- religion & common sense.

In ancient shadows and twilightsWhere childhood had strayed,The world's great sorrows were bornAnd its heroes were made.In the lost boyhood of JudasChrist was betrayed.

Seek on earth what you have found in heaven.

Reason, alas, does not remove mountains. It only tries to walk around them, and see what is on the other side.

Ah, to think how thin the veil that lies Between the pain of hell and Paradise.

Night begins to muffle up the day.

I loved a lass, a fair one,As fair as e'er was seen;She was indeed a rare one,Another Sheba queen:But, fool as then I was,I thought she loved me too:But now, alas! she's left me,Falero, lero, loo!

Apocalypse is the eye of a needle, through which we pass into a different world.

The people themselves must think, because the people alone can act.

The methods by which a trade union can alone act, are necessarily destructive; its organization is necessarily tyrannical.