From the beginning, there have been some religious leaders who greeted the funding of faith-based social services by government with ambivalence.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses.

Andrew Jackson

A good marriage would be between a blind wife and a deaf husband.

Michel de Montaigne

It is the true office of history to represent the events themselves, together with the counsels, and to leave the observations and conclusions thereupon to the liberty and faculty of every man's judgment.

Francis Bacon

Well, there are times when one would like to hang the whole human race and finish the farce.

Mark Twain

And 'tis remarkable that they talk most who have the least to say.

Matthew Prior

All that we are is the result of what we have thought. If a man speaks or acts with an evil thought, pain follows him. If a man speaks or acts with a pure thought, happiness follows him, like a shadow that never leaves him.

Gautama Buddha

I went to watch my father at Silverstone in the early 1950s, and I've still got the car he was in.

Nick Mason

They've just gone over the line in my opinion, and again, there's a proper time for a pat down, there's a proper time for an advanced technology body search, but it has to be done with some thought.

John Mica

The missing piece in his stomach hurt so much-and eventually he stopped thinking about the Theorem and wondered only how something that isn't there can hurt you.

John Green

I live a bourgeois life.

Mark Ruffalo

I often say that shareholders should feel very responsible for how responsive corporations are to the public trust.

Ruth J. Simmons

Life is not life at all without delight.

Coventry Patmore