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- How could a state be governed, or protected in its foreign relations if every individual remained free to obey or not to obey the law according to his private opinion.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
- Government is necessary, not because man is naturally bad... but because man is by nature more individualistic than social.
- Thomas Hobbes (1588 - 1679)
- An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- The intelligence is proved not by ease of learning, but by understanding what we learn.
- Joseph Whitney
- There is nobody so irritating as somebody with less intelligence and more sense than we have.
- Don Herold
- The difference between intelligence and education is this: intelligence will make you a good living.
- Charles F. Kettering (1876 - 1958)
- Our duty is to believe that for which we have sufficient evidence, and to suspend our judgement when we have not.
- John Lubbock
- For we both alike know that into the discussion of human affairs the question of justice enters only where the pressure of necessity is equal, and that the powerful exact when they can, and the weak grant what they must.
- Thucydides (471 BC - 400 BC)
- No one is more profoundly sad than he who laughs too much.
- Jean Paul Richter (1763 - 1825)
- There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not even enough courts too enforce a law not supported by the people.
- Hubert H. Humphrey (1911 - 1978)
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