What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature? If men were angels no government would be necessary. If angels were to govern men neither external nor internal controls on government would be necessary.

When you decide to get involved in a military operation in a place like Syria you've got to be prepared as we learned from Iraq and Afghanistan to become the government and I'm not sure any country either the United States or I don't hear of anyone else who's willing to take on that responsibility.

But whether the Constitution really be one thing or another this much is certain - that it has either authorized such a government as we have had or has been powerless to prevent it. In either case it is unfit to exist.

So confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done either cannot or ought not to be done.

What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers the House and the Senate but you have simply majoritarian absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended.

The most savage controversies are about matters as to which there is no good evidence either way.

The humblest individual exerts some influence either for good or evil upon others.

Life is neither good or evil but only a place for good and evil.

The society which scorns excellence in plumbing as a humble activity and tolerates shoddiness in philosophy because it is an exalted activity will have neither good plumbing nor good philosophy: neither its pipes nor its theories will hold water.

The rulers of the state are the only persons who ought to have the privilege of lying either at home or abroad they may be allowed to lie for the good of the state.

Do not ever say that the desire to 'do good' by force is a good motive. Neither power-lust nor stupidity are good motives.

I do not concern myself with gods and spirits either good or evil nor do I serve any.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.

It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.

There is nothing either good or bad but thinking makes it so.

Money is neither my god nor my devil. It is a form of energy that tends to make us more of who we already are whether it's greedy or loving.

No man is excluded from calling upon God the gate of salvation is set open unto all men: neither is there any other thing which keepeth us back from entering in save only our own unbelief.

I've always believed in God. I also think that's the sort of thing that either comes as part of the equipment the capacity to believe or at some point in your life when you're in a position where you actually need help from a power greater than yourself you simply make an agreement.

If you don't want my God here you don't want me here either. God has been too good to me to go and try to sell out to get some money.

Happiness is neither without us nor within us. It is in God both without us and within us.

He who is unable to live in society or who has no need because he is sufficient for himself must be either a beast or a god.

Whosoever is delighted in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.

I cannot and will not recant anything for to go against conscience is neither right nor safe. Here I stand I can do no other so help me God. Amen.

We are either in the process of resisting God's truth or in the process of being shaped and molded by his truth.