Pastoral Resources

Men don't hear women.

It's hard to get fired from the government. You have to, like, kill people.

I think the inherent right of the Government to lie to save itself when facing a nuclear disaster is basic.

Hardly had I left when we ran into the Korean war, doubled what I had asked for and doubled it again. I had told him I would stay in Government, be honored to, but not with the Air Force.

Going to college helped me, because I had four years in the conservatory program, which is close as you can get to a professional environment. It's like all day.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

Punishment is now unfashionable... because it creates moral distinctions among men, which, to the democratic mind, are odious. We prefer a meaningless collective guilt to a meaningful individual responsibility.

Narcissist: psychoanalytic term for the person who loves himself more than his analyst; considered to be the manifestation of a dire mental disease whose successful treatment depends on the patient learning to love the analyst more and himself less.

Women were freed from positive duties when they could not perform them, but not when they could.

All the best have something in common, a regard for reality, an agreement to its primacy over the imagination.

Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.

Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.

To show resentment at a reproach is to acknowledge that one may have deserved it.

Criticism in a time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of democratic government.

We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government.

A government is for the benefit of all the people.

Enthusiasm for a cause sometimes warps judgment.

I am afraid I am a constant disappointment to my party. The fact of the matter is, the longer I am president the less of a party man I seem to become.

The butterfly counts not months but moments, and has time enough.

Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.