John Quotes

We have come so far. It's become a real bipartisan cause, which I'm very happy to see. And in the case of America, and it's - certainly, without America, we'd be facing catastrophe.

I've always been dead set against festivals, really suspicious and wary.

I just sit there and make up songs and sing to [my son] in gibberish. I'm very good at gibberish now.

And there's no guarantee that if you get HIV and you take these triple therapies, or whatever comes along next, that they're going to be successful for you.

Because, I figured that, because I was a successful man, I was wealthy, I was, you know, seemingly intelligent - even that I am not intelligent enough to ask for help.

Hell is the absence of the people you long for.

To be reserved, secretive, with a passionate violence that causes suffering.

Aloneness is nearer God, nearer reality.

When I was a child, I used to cry all the time.

We have no permanent allies, only permanent interests.

What is merit? The opinion one man entertains of another.

Dirt is matter in the wrong place.

God himself, with reverence be it spoken, is not an absolute but a limited monarch, limited by the rule which infinite wisdom prescribes to infinite power.

To converse with historians is to keep good company; many of them were excellent men, and those who were not, have taken care to appear such in their writings.

If I had been trying to take the job away from him in a sneaky, underhand manner, then I deserved all I got. But it was the other way around. I was trying to get him the job.

You can't lose an old golf ball.

If you listen to a lot of music, it gradually seeps into your consciousness or your unconsciousness and comes out in your music.

Morale is good; troops are confident; leaders are capable.

And so I think that if the person has the funds, the network, and the equipment to do this, and also the experience, which is the key factor, then they can be quite deadly.

It would be an absurdity for jurors to be required to accept the judge's view of the law, against their own opinion, judgment, and conscience.

Power always sincerely, conscientiously, de très bon foi, believes itself right. Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views, beyond the comprehension of the weak.

Can a free government possibly exist with the Roman Catholic religion?

The people "have a right, an indisputable, unalienable, indefeasible, divine right to that most dreaded and envied kind of knowledge- I mean of the character and conduct of their rulers."

Public affairs go on pretty much as usual: perpetual chicanery and rather more personal abuse than there used to be.

I would define liberty to be a power to do as we would be done by. The definition of liberty to be the power of doing whatever the law permits, meaning the civil laws, does not seem satisfactory.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

A native of America who cannot read or write is . . . as rare as a comet or an earthquake.

Have you considered that system of holy lies and pious frauds that has raged and triumphed for 1,500 years?

We must not then depend alone upon the love of liberty in the soul of man for its preservation.

Property must be secured, or liberty cannot exist.

I will insist that the Hebrews have done more to civilize man than any other nation.

Will you tell me how to prevent riches from producing luxury? Will you tell me how to prevent luxury from producing effeminacy, intoxication, extravagance, vice and folly?

I read my Eyes out, and cant read half enough neither. The more one reads the more one sees We have to read.

Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy.

Riches attract attention, consideration, and congratulations of mankind.

Did you ever see a portrait of a great man without perceiving strong traits of pain and anxiety?

When philosophic reason is clear and certain by intuition or necessary induction, no subsequent revelation supported by prophecies or miracles can supersede it.

Individuals have conquered themselves. Nations and large bodies of men, never.

The rules are simple and easily understood by anyone who has once seen the game, but to the totally uninitiated they appear to be hopelessly unintelligible.

These things shall be! A loftier race Than e'er the world hath known shall rise, With flame of freedom in their souls, And light of knowledge in their eyes.

Defined broadly enough, mathematics encompasses everything.

The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].

The simple equations that generate the convoluted Mandelbrot fractal have been called the wittiest remarks ever made.

You can't be a part-time man of principle.

The theory of evolution is totally inadequate to explain the origin and manifestation of the inorganic world.

Three Royal Air Force aeroplanes have come over to us so far with their arms and equipment.

American troops have not only occupied Ulster but are arriving in increasing numbers in England.

I do not believe that the government should have its long nose poked into the private consensual relationships between people.

Were we more careful to obey the part of the word of wisdom that deals with the "do's" it might be easier to obey the "don'ts"

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.