I.B. George Quotes
We are trying to make the world a better place, but that is not necessarily what we accomplish. Many of the problems which preoccupy us are basically insoluble.
Globalization has rendered the world increasingly interdependent, but international politics is still based on the sovereignty of states.
There is something terribly wrong with a culture inebriated by noise and gregariousness.
The thing to remember is that Donald Trump didn't rescue the Republican Party, he crushed the Republican Party. The Republican Party was so weak that an outsider came along and just wiped it out.
To tell you the truth although it would put £500 in my pockets to specify my own patent rails, I cannot do so after the experience I have had.
...the number of saintly men has not yet risen to the level where the census makes them a separate statistical category.
The almighty dollar and the lust for world wide fame, slowly killed tradition, and for that someone should hang.
Unfriending me when I didn’t even know we were friends? It’s like breaking wind when you’re home alone. If I can’t smell you, knock yourself out.
The seventy-five years and twenty million dollars expended on the Grant Study points to a straightforward five-word conclusion: Happiness is love. Full stop.
Joy is connection... The more areas in your life you can make connection, the better.
I don't want some mom whose son may have recently died to see the commander in chief playing golf.
Wait a minute. What did you just say? You're predicting $4-a-gallon gas? ... That's interesting. I hadn't heard that.
The war on terror involves Saddam Hussein because of the nature of Saddam Hussein, the history of Saddam Hussein, and his willingness to terrorize himself.
You work three jobs? Uniquely American, isn't it? I mean, that is fantastic that you're doing that." To a divorced mother of three, Omaha, Nebraska, Feb. 4, 2005
America has never been united by blood or birth or soil. We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests and teach us what it means to be citizens.
There is only one course of action against terrorists: to defeat them abroad before they attack us at home.
Catholic schools carry out a great mission, to serve God by building knowledge and character... By teaching the word of God, you prepare your students to follow a path of virtue.
We spent a lot of time talking about Africa, as we should. Africa is a nation that suffers from incredible disease.
Islam is a faith that brings comfort to people. It inspires them to lead lives based on honesty, and justice, and compassion.
The Geneva Convention . . . says that there will be no outrages upon human dignity. It’s very vague. What does that mean, ‘outrages upon human dignity’?
Do not conceive that fine clothes make fine men any more than fine feathers make fine birds.
Let us raise a standard to which the wise and honest can repair; the rest is in the hands of God.
To rectify past blunders is impossible, but we might profit by the experience of them.
Interwoven as is the love of liberty with every ligament of your hearts, no recommendation of mine is necessary to fortify or confirm the attachment.
Let us therefore animate and encourage each other, and show the whole world that a Freeman, contending for liberty on his own ground, is superior to any slavish mercenary on earth.
In the appointments to the great offices of the government, my aim has been to combine geographical situation, and sometimes other considerations, with abilities and fitness of known characters.
Let your conversation be without malice or envy, for it is a sign of a tractable and commendable nature; and in all cases of passion admit reason to govern.
The Soviet Union tried for 70 years to plant Marxism with bayonets in Eastern Europe. Today there are more Marxists on the Harvard faculty than there are in Eastern Europe.
What is really shocking in America isn't what's done in and by Washington that is illegal by that what is done in and by Washington that's legal.
The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.
Prussia is great because her people are intelligent. They know the alphabet. The alphabet is conquering the world.
In the journey of the year, the autumn is Venice, spring is Naples, certainly, and the majestic maturity of summer is Rome.
Twilight, a timid, fawn, went glimmering by, and Night, the dark-blue hunter, followed fast.
The state, it cannot too often be repeated, does nothing, and can give nothing, which it does not take from somebody.
The ideal social state is not that in which each gets an equal amount of wealth, but in which each gets in proportion to his contribution to the general stock.
