I cannot lead you into battle. I do not give you laws or administer justice but I can do something else - I can give my heart and my devotion to these old islands and to all the peoples of our brotherhood of nations.

The meanest, most contemptible kind of praise is that which first speaks well of a man, and then qualifies it with a But.

Henry Ward Beecher

The real cure for what ails our health care system today is less government and more freedom.

Steve Forbes

I was taught a lot of Bible at home and had a voracious appetite for reading the Bible.

Amy Grant

We establish no religion in this country, nor will we ever. But we poison our society when we remove its theological underpinnings. We court corruption when we leave society devoid of belief.

Jeff Miller

A vote is like a rifle; its usefulness depends upon the character of the user.

Theodore Roosevelt

Life is just one damned thing after another.

Elbert Hubbard

A wife lasts only for the length of the marriage, but an ex-wife is there for the rest of your life.

Jim Samuels

I was supposed to be women's lib, and now I'd exceeded it and gone over into international politics.

Kate Millett

Perfection is what American women expect to find in their husbands... but English women only hope to find in their butlers.

W. Somerset Maugham

The things we know best are the things we haven't been taught.

Marquis De Vauvenargues

If you accept people for what they are, they will become worse. Treat them like they should be, and they will become better.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

The bad boy: always more fun.

Ian McShane