All those who seek to destroy the liberties of a democratic nation ought to know that war is the surest and shortest means to accomplish it.

The surest way to prevent war is not to fear it.

The chief lesson I have learned in a long life is that the only way you can make a man trustworthy is to trust him and the surest way to make him untrustworthy is to distrust him.

There are three roads to ruin women gambling and technicians. The most pleasant is with women the quickest is with gambling but the surest is with technicians.

It is sometimes important for science to know how to forget the things she is surest of.

Perhaps the surest test of an individual's integrity is his refusal to do or say anything that would damage his self-respect.

I would say that the surest measure of a man's or a woman's maturity is the harmony style joy and dignity he creates in his marriage and the pleasure and inspiration he provides for his spouse.

What spectacle can be more edifying or more seasonable than that of Liberty and Learning each leaning on the other for their mutual and surest support?

One of the surest signs of the estimated changes in the consciousness of the American proletariat is to be found in the character of the demands now being put forward by the leadership.

If the past has been an obstacle and a burden knowledge of the past is the safest and the surest emancipation.

The shortest and surest way of arriving at real knowledge is to unlearn the lessons we have been taught to mount the first principles and take nobody's word about them.

The surest route to breeding jealousy is to compare. Since jealousy comes from feeling less than another comparisons only fan the fires.

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.

It is work work that one delights in that is the surest guarantor of happiness. But even here it is a work that has to be earned by labor in one's earlier years. One should labor so hard in youth that everything one does subsequently is easy by comparison.

All really great lovers are articulate and verbal seduction is the surest road to actual seduction.

One of the sanest surest and most generous joys of life comes from being happy over the good fortune of others.

We are persuaded that good Christians will always be good citizens and that where righteousness prevails among individuals the Nation will be great and happy. Thus while just government protects all in their religious rights true religion affords to government it's surest support.

There are several good protections against temptation but the surest is cowardice.

One of the surest evidences of friendship that one individual can display to another is telling him gently of a fault. If any other can excel it it is listening to such a disclosure with gratitude and amending the error.

Do the thing you fear to do and keep on doing it... that is the quickest and surest way ever yet discovered to conquer fear.

Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success.

The passion of hatred is so long lived and so obstinate a malady that the surest sign of death in a sick person is their desire for reconciliation.

Courage is always the surest wisdom.

The surest sign of age is loneliness.