The most dangerous criminal now is the entirely lawless modern philosopher. Compared to him burglars and bigamists are essentially moral men.

The Hebrews have done more to civilize men than any other nation. If I were an atheist and believed blind eternal fate I should still believe that fate had ordained the Jews to be the most essential instrument for civilizing the nations.

Radio interoperability is essential for our police fire and emergency medical service departments to communicate with each other in times of emergency.

As a former professional patient advocate I believe prescription drugs are an essential part of high-quality medical treatment and I supported enactment of the Medicare Prescription Drug and Modernization Act.

Developments in medical technology have long been confined to procedural or pharmaceutical advances while neglecting a most basic and essential component of medicine: patient information management.

Legislation to create a new 10 percent tax bracket reduce the marriage penalty cut the tax rate on dividends and capital gains and increase the child tax credit have been essential elements in this economic expansion.

Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been know to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.

I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately to front only the essential facts of life and see if I could not learn what it had to teach and not when I came to die discover that I had not lived.

A free and open Internet should not have to be weighed down by legal challenges - its dynamism is essential to our economy.

The right to a trial is a core principle of the American legal system. Depriving Americans of these essential liberties undermines the Constitution while doing nothing to strengthen our national security.

Year by year we are learning that in this restless strenuous American life of ours vacations are essential.

Composing gives me a chance to work in multiple dimensions and helps me pare down my melodies into what is essential. Learning new skills has always energized me and scoring has opened up a world of sonic possibilities.

Leadership in telecommunications is also essential since we are now in the age of e-commerce.

In the present state of our knowledge it would be useless to attempt to speculate on the remote cause of the electrical energy... its relation to chemical affinity is however sufficiently evident. May it not be identical with it and an essential property of matter?

It is my deliberate opinion that the one essential requisite of human welfare in all ways is scientific knowledge of human nature.

Now it is established in the sciences that no knowledge is acquired save through the study of its causes and beginnings if it has had causes and beginnings nor completed except by knowledge of its accidents and accompanying essentials.

I am not a member of any organization listed by the Attorney General as subversive. In any instance where I lent my name in the past it was certainly without knowledge that such an organization was subversive. I have always been essentially and foremost an American.

To express the same idea in still another way I think that human knowledge is essentially active.

Everything has been said yet few have taken advantage of it. Since all our knowledge is essentially banal it can only be of value to minds that are not.

Like hatred jealousy is forbidden by the laws of life because it is essentially destructive.

The prompt assimilation of that intelligence will be essential if we are to avoid another September 11th.

Would it not be much better to have a president who deliberately lied to the people because he thought a war was essential than to have one who was so dumb as to be taken in by intelligence agencies especially those who told him what he wanted to hear?

In intelligence work there are limits to the amount of information one can share. Confidentiality is essential.

The essential elements of giving are power and love - activity and affection - and the consciousness of the race testifies that in the high and appropriate exercise of these is a blessedness greater than any other.