I.B. George Quotes

I believe in the transformational power of liberty. I believe that the free Iraq is in this nation's interests. I believe a free Afghanistan is in this nation's interest.

They want the federal government controlling the Social Security, like it's some kind of federal program.

God told me to strike at al Qaeda and I struck them; then he instructed me to strike at Saddam, which I did.

I was not pleased that Hamas has refused to announce its desire to destroy Israel.

People make suggestions on what to say all the time... Trust me.

I will have a foreign-handed foreign policy.

The woman who knew that I had dyslexia - I never interviewed her.

I'm the decider, and I decide what is best.

Verbosity leads to unclear, inarticulate things.

There's no such thing as legacies. At least, there is a legacy, but I'll never see it.

Congealed thinking is the forerunner of failure... make sure you are always receptive to new ideas.

We do not go to the green woods and crystal waters to rough it, we go to smooth it. We get it rough enough at home, in towns and cities.

I tell my students to try early in life to find an unattainable objective.

Nuclear weapons offer us nothing but a balance of terror, and a balance of terror is still terror.

The only use for an atomic bomb is to keep somebody else from using one. It can give us no protection - only the doubtful satisfaction of retaliation...

We have fallen in love with the body. That's that thing that looks back at us from the mirror. That's the repository of that lovely identity that you keep chasing all your life.

Let me ask you, sir, when is the time for brave men to exert themselves in the cause of liberty and their country, if this is not?

We can not guarantee success, we can strive to deserve it.

The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always exalt the just pride of Patriotism . . .

Refrain from drink which is the source of all evil-and the ruin of half the workmen in this Country.

When once the woman has tempted us, and we have tasted the forbidden fruit, there is no such thing as checking our appetites, whatever the consequences may be.

Liberty, when it degrades into licentiousness, begets confusion, and frequently ends in tyranny or some woeful confusion.

The great mass of our citizens require only to understand matters rightly, to form right decisions.

Be not glad at the misfortune of another, though he may be your enemy.

Some day, following the example of the United States of America, there will be a United States of Europe.

There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily

I shall not be deprived ... of a comfort in the worst event, if I retain a consciousness of having acted to the best of my judgment.

Can it be that Providence has not connected the permanent felicity of a nation with its virtue?

If you can't send money, send tobacco.

The fundamental principle of our constitution ... enjoins the sense of command, duty that the will of the majority shall prevail.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

We beseech [God] to pardon our national and other transgressions.

Be not forward, but friendly and courteous; the first to salute, hear and answer; and be not pensive when it is time to converse.

Lenity will operate with greater force, in some instances, than rigor. It is, therefore, my first wish, to have my whole conduct distinguished by it.

Let us therefore rely on the goodness of the cause, and the aid of the supreme Being, in whose hands victory is, to animate and encourage us to great and noble actions.

Be courteous to all, but personal with number of, and allow those couple be perfectly attempted ahead of you provide them with your self-assurance.

I am principled against selling negroes, as you would do cattle at a market.

Patience is a noble virtue, and, when rightly exercised, does not fail of its reward.

Experience has taught us that men will not adopt and carry into execution measures the best calculated for their own good without the intervention of a coercive power.

Every day the increasing weight of years admonishes me more and more, that the shade of retirement is as necessary to me as it will be welcome.

Let us rejoice at the many unexplored fields in which there is unlimited fame and fortune to the successful explorer . . .

I have proven to the world that I am articulate, I am very intelligent, I'm well exposed.

I will do nothing for 89 minutes, but score in the 90th.

I ask Liberians to pray so that God will bring peace and stability, and bring about unification to ourselves.

My father was a pedant and a bully who cared about nobody, and I was not to see him until I was eighteen.

This is an age in which one cannot find common sense without a search warrant.

No matter how deeply you distrust the government's judgment, you are too trusting.

Football combines the two worst things about America: it is violence punctuated by committee meetings.

As advertising blather becomes the nation's normal idiom, language becomes printed noise.

We have 3,141 counties in this country. That would be 20 per county. The idea that we can't assimilate these 8-year-old criminals with their teddy bears is preposterous.