I.B. George Quotes

It's hard to plan and plot attacks against America if you're on the run, and that's exactly what our brave professionals are doing.

They [terrorists] are trying to evoke sympathy for themselves. They're not sympathetic people. They're violent, cold-blooded killers who are trying to stop the advance of freedom.

Hezbollah is not a state. They're a, you know, supposed political party that happens to be armed.

An all-volunteer army is best suited to fight the new wars of the 21st century.

It's essential that we do what's right - not necessarily what appears to be immediately popular.

I feel that it's important our professionals have the tools to keep the enemy, to stop their attacks.

We've looked for the constitution to be a national pact, and the perception now is that it's not.

The horse has such a docile nature, that he would always rather do right the wrong, if he can only be taught to distinguish one from the other.

The pursuit of the difficult makes men strong

The rights of some must not be enjoyed by denying the rights of others. Neither can we permit states' rights at the expense of human rights.

Too often we shape our public positions on the basis of our economic connections. That brings us dangerously close to economic determinism.

Workers must participate in progress to enjoy their work and take pride in its product.

I would never sacrifice my individual beliefs as a citizen to my corporate responsibilities.

Our body is the temple of our spirit.

I have made sense of my life by developing an ability to analyze Mainstream American Cultural Artifacts.

What is loved is a hit. What is a hit is loved.

The work of television is to establish false contexts and to chronicle the unraveling of existing contexts; finally, to establish the context of no-context and to chronicle it.

The most powerful men were those who most effectively used the power of adult competence to enforce childish agreements.

Our business is with life, not death.

A scientist lives with all reality. There is nothing better. To know reality is to accept it, and eventually to love it.

Not all living creatures die. An amoeba, for example, need never die; it need not even, like certain generals, fade away. It just divides and becomes two new amoebas.

Science goes from question to question; big questions, and little, tentative answers. The questions as they age grow ever broader, the answers are seen to be more limited.

The trouble with most of the things that people want is that they get them.

I think I know what is bothering the students. I think that what we are up against is a generation that is by no means sure that it has a future.

I can conceive of no nightmare so terrifying as establishing communication with a so-called superior (or, if you wish, advanced) technology in outer space.

I am growing old, and my future, so to speak, is already behind me.

A scientist is in a sense a learned small boy. There is something of the scientist in every small boy. Others must outgrow it. Scientists can stay that way all their lives.

A peacetime draft is the most un-American thing I know.

When you have no experience of pain, it is rather hard to experience joy.

The concept of war crimes is an American invention.

The only point of government is to safeguard and foster life.

Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.

Leadership is not only having a vision, but also having the courage, the discipline, and the resources to get you there.

My aim has been... to keep the United States... independent of all and under the influence of none.

The U.S. is a Government which to bigotry gives no sanction, to persecution no assistance.

Happiness is more effectually dispensed to mankind under a republican form of government than any other.

My own remedy is always to eat, just before I step into bed, a hot roasted onion, if I have a cold.

The Hand of providence has been so conspicuous in all this, that he must be worse than an infidel that lacks faith, and more than wicked, that has not gratitude enough to acknowledge his obligations.

To anticipate and prevent disasterous contingencies would be the part of wisdom and patriotism.

The eyes of all our countrymen are now upon us, and we shall have their blessings and praises, if happily we are the instruments of saving them from the tyranny meditated against them.

Facts may speak for themselves.

For it is fixed principle with me, that whatever is done should be done well.

It is not the lowest priced goods that are always the cheapest - the quality is, or ought to be as much an object with the purchaser, as the price.

Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror.

Nothing is too extravagant to expect from men who conceive they are ungratefully and unjustly dealt by.

I have never been a communicant.

Speak seldom, but to important subjects, except such as particularly relate to your constituents, and, in the former case, make yourself perfectly master of the subject.

When a man does all he can, though it succeeds not well, blame not him that did it.

Went to church and fasted all day.

To form a new Government, requires infinite care, and unbounded attention; for if the foundation is badly laid the superstructure must be bad.