Us Quotes

Compassion alone stands apart from the continuous traffic between good and evil proceeding within us.

Let us read and let us dance - two amusements that will never do any harm to the world.

All human excellence is but comparative. There may be persons who excel us, as much as we fancy we excel the meanest.

Expensive advertising courts us with hints and images. The ordinary kind merely says, Buy.

What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what lives within us.

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

So long as I'm Commander-in-Chief, we will sustain the strongest military the world has ever known. When you take off the uniform, we will serve you as well as you've served us - because no one who fights for this country should have to fight for a job, or a roof over their head, or the care that they need when they come home.

I am poor and naked, but I am the chief of the nation. We do not want riches but we do want to train our children right. Riches would do us no good. We could not take them with us to the other world. We do not want riches. We want peace and love.

Out of Ireland have we come, great hatred, little room, maimed us at the start. I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic heart.

For us in Russia, communism is a dead dog, while, for many people in the West, it is still a living lion.

Between us and heaven or hell there is only life, which is the frailest thing in the world.

Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves.

It is our less conscious thoughts and our less conscious actions which mainly mould our lives and the lives of those who spring from us.

I stand ready to lead us down a different path where we're lifted up by our desire to succeed, not dragged down by a resentment of success.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of.

If you don't think drugs have done good things for us, then take all of your records, tapes and CD's and burn them.

Hate traps us by binding us too tightly to our adversary.

We all knew this. We all knew that it would take more time than any of us want to dig ourselves out of this hole created by this economic crisis.

There are obviously two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Activist government overreach and ongoing economic stagnation have shown us why Washington should not try to displace what is best left to civil society.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone.

Art is the right hand of Nature. The latter has only given us being, the former has made us men.

No man is great enough or wise enough for any of us to surrender our destiny to. The only way in which anyone can lead us is to restore to us the belief in our own guidance.

I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.

God is what keeps us together after the love is gone.

O thou invisible spirit of wine, if thou hast no name to be known by, let us call thee devil.

All that is needed to set us definitely on the road to a Fascist society is war. It will of course be a modified form of Fascism at first.

It is often laziness and timidity that keep us within our duty while virtue gets all the credit.

Julia progresses from cradle to grave, showing how government makes every good thing in her life possible. The weak economy, high unemployment, falling wages, rising gas prices, the national debt, the insolvency of entitlements - all these are fictionally assumed away in a cartoon that is produced by a president who wants us to forget about them.

When people do not respect us we are sharply offended; yet in his private heart no man much respects himself.