John Quotes

Truth lies within a little and certain compass, but error is immense.

The oblique paradox of propaganda is that the lie in the throat becomes, by repetition, the truth in the heart.

Soldiers, when committed to a task, can't compromise. It's unrelenting devotion to the standards of duty and courage, absolute loyalty to others, not letting the task go until it's been done.

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only, and not for things themselves.

We need a type of patriotism that recognizes the virtues of those who are opposed to us.

For me, a page of good prose is where one hears the rain and the noise of battle. It has the power to give grief or universality that lends it a youthful beauty.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was, nothing ever ran quite straight, which no doubt, was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

Money differs from an automobile or mistress in being equally important to those who have it and those who do not.

Poetry lies its way to the truth.

Anger will never disappear so long as thoughts of resentment are cherished in the mind. Anger will disappear just as soon as thoughts of resentment are forgotten.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

It's a repressive society where you can't be horrible, I'm not horrible, they made me horrible, I'm just honest.

I do believe the most important thing I can do now is to help young people understand the past and prepare for the future.

If it's important do it everyday.

We all want the freedom to make our own decisions.

I used to take hostages in my relationships and not let people be independent. It always ended in disaster, because you take away people's identity and they end up full of resentment.

I'm a juvenile product of the working class, who's best friend floats in the bottom of a glass.

But actually, my drug addiction thing, I was so stubborn.

If you are the light, if your enemies are darkness, then there’s nothing that you cannot justify. There’s nothing you can’t survive, because there’s nothing that you will not do.

History is philosophy teaching by example and also by warning.

If this world could only grasp the power of forgiveness. Being able to forgive someone breaks the cycle of bitterness and vengeance

There is a source within us that always works to bring things into the light.

Every man's ability may be strengthened or increased by culture.

A Lifetime Warranty on a concealed carry firearm isn't much good, If the firearm fails in an armed encounter, the owner of the firearm might expire, along with the warranty.

We'll try to include Iraqi officers in our staffs. We will do everything we can to empower Iraqi security forces to stand up on their own and operate where they can alone.

When public virtue is gone, when the national spirit is fled the republic is lost in essence, though it may still exist in form

We hold that each man is the best judge of his own interest.

Without religion this world would be something not fit to be mentioned in polite company, I mean Hell.

I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

The consequences arising from the continual accumulation of public debts in other countries ought to admonish us to prevent their growth in our own.

The Christian religion is, above all the religions that ever prevailed or existed in ancient or modern times, the religion of wisdom, virtue, equity and humanity.

We cannot insure success, but we can deserve it.

Elections to office, which are the great objects of ambition, I look at with terror!

I must study war and politics so that my children shall be free to study commerce, agriculture and other practicalities, so that their children can study painting, poetry and other fine things.

The question before the human race is, whether the God of nature shall govern the world by his own laws, or whether priests and kings shall rule it by fictitious miracles?

As much as I converse with sages and heroes, they have very little of my love and admiration. I long for rural and domestic scene, for the warbling of birds and the prattling of my children.

Knowing yourself, knowing where you want to get, combining those things gives you the pragmatic steps.

The evolution theory is purely the product of the imagination.

If we get it right, there need not be losers.

She looks uptown, but she ain't really. She's into football, she likes my chili.

Fraud and deceit are anxious for your money. Be informed and prudent.

What I have said may serve to recommend mathematics for acquiring a vigorous constitution of mind; for which purpose they are as useful as exercise is for procuring health and strength to the body.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees.

Our greatest good, and what we least can spare, Is hope: the last of all our evils, fear.

I feel that poetry is going on all the time inside, an underground stream.

The facts of history have been too well rehearsed.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

By tearing down the wall between law enforcement and the intelligence community, we have been able to share information in a way that was virtually impossible before the Patriot Act.

Keep your chin up. No one expected you to save the world, otherwise you would have been born wearing a cape and tights. Just do the best you can.

There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings.