John Howard Quotes

I'm annoyed by those who love mankind but are discourteous to people.

He was not talking with US, but with his IMAGE of us.

If the judgement makes the law and not the law directs the judgement, it is impossible there should be such a thing as an illegal judgement given.

Your blanks have been filled in far differently from those of a child grown up in the filth and poverty

All the courtesies in the world do not cover up the one vital and massive discourtesy.

It was a little thing, but on top of the other little things, it broke something in me.

He showed me the lowest. I had to surmise the highest.

A law is not good merely because the legislature wills it, but the legislature has the mortal duty to will only that which is good.

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

We fill too many gutters while we argue unimportant points and confuse issues.

In the context of today, this WAS heroism.

I'm direct, I'm unpretentious and I'm pretty dogged, and I hope I've got a capacity to laugh at myself and not take myself too seriously.