I.B. George Quotes

I can't tell you what it's like to be in Europe, for example, to be talking about the greatness of America. But the true greatness of America are the people.

And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don't move quickly.

I confirmed to the prime minister that we appreciate our friendship.

As Governor of Texas, I have set high standards for our public schools, and I have met those standards.

More than two decades later, it is hard to imagine the Revolutionary War coming out any other way.

I have said that the sanction regime is like Swiss cheese - that meant that they weren't very effective.

Renewing the promise of America begins with upholding the dignity of human life.

Well from a personal perspective, quitting drinking is a decision I felt good about.

I am comfortable that the principles that I articulated were never compromised.

In spite of the fact that at times I would challenge parents authority. They provided unconditional love.

I believe the role of government is to stand side by side with our citizens to help them realize their dreams, not tell citizens how to live their lives.

You cannot lead an alliance if you say you're going alone.

I realize I will never regain my anonymity but I can certainly give it a try. And it's a lot of fun to give it a try.

I can't imagine what it would be to be president when the United States at war with yourself. People killing each other here in America on a massive basis. Just can't imagine what it would be.

Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life - it's one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.

For decades, the public school system failed too many children, so we passed the No Child Left Behind Act and demanded schools show results in return for money.

Sometimes in this world you make unpopular decisions because you think they're right.

Evolution advances, not by a priori design, but by the selection of what works best out of whatever choices offer. We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship.

The fool that eats till he is sick must fast till he is well.

My opinion with respect to immigration is, that except of useful mechanics and some particular description of men and professions, there is no use of encouragement.

The States separately have very inadequate ideas of the present danger. Party disputes and personal quarrels are the great business of the day, whilst the concerns of the nation are secondary.

Influence is not government.

If we cannot learn wisdom from experience, it is hard to say where it is to be found.

The Army, as usual, are without pay; and a great part of the soldiery without shirts; and though the patience of them is equally threadbare, the States seem perfectly indifferent to their cries.

You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.

May 12-13: Sowed Hemp at Muddy hole by Swamp. August 7: Began to separate the Male from the Female at Do - rather too late.

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

Three things prompt men to a regular discharge of their duty in time of action: natural bravery, hope of reward, and fear of punishment.

The thinking part of mankind do not form their judgment from events; and their equity will ever attach equal glory to those actions which deserve success, and those which have been crowned with it.

The friendship I have conceived will not be impaired by absence; but it may be no unpleasing circumstance to brighten the chain by a renewal of the covenant.

All see, and most admire, the glare which hovers round the external happiness of elevated office.

The best way to have peace is to always be prepared to fight a way.

I dare say the men would fight very well if properly officered, although they are an exceedingly dirty and nasty people.

The Church offers the medicine of the divine mercy so that healed souls can grasp the truth that will liberate them in the fullest meaning of human freedom.

I wanted a bookstore because the book business is the business of life.

Freedom is not only the absence of external restraints. It is also the absence of irresistible internal compulsions, unmanageable passion, and uncensorable highlights.

The pursuit of perfection prevents achievement of the satisfactory.

Few things are as stimulating as other people's calamities observed from a safe distance.

All politicians are to some extent salesmen.

As has been said, standards are always out of date - that is why we call them standards.

Revisiting the Revolutionary War is a bracing reminder that the fate of a continent, and the shape of the modern world, turned on the free choices of remarkably few Americans defying an empire.

Sports is the toy department of life.

Chicago Cubs fans are ninety percent scar tissue.

Heroes in history seem to us poetic because they are there. But if we should tell the simple truth of some of our neighbors, it would sound like poetry.

True invective requires great imagination.

For nature makes women to be won, and men to win.

One of the great autoharpists and folksingers of our times.

Trade has ever been the extinguisher of war, the eradicator of prejudice, the diffuser of knowledge.

An inch in a man's nose is much.

The lawyer's pouch is a mouth of hell.