He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.

We are muddled into war.

Liberty has restraints but no frontiers.

What is our task? To make Britain a fit country for heroes to live in.

The most dangerous thing in the world is to try to leap a chasm in two jumps.

What do you want to be a sailor for? There are greater storms in politics than you will ever find at sea. Piracy, broadsides, blood on the decks. You will find them all in politics.

The finest eloquence is that which gets things done.

He has sat on the fence so long that the iron has entered his soul.

Don't be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

A politician is a person with whose politics you don't agree; if you agree with him he's a statesman.

You cannot feed the hungry on statistics.

A young man who isn't a socialist hasn't got a heart; an old man who is a socialist hasn't got a head.

Liberty is not merely a privilege to be conferred; it is a habit to be acquired.

With me a change of trouble is as good as a vacation.

Diplomats were invented simply to waste time.

The man who tries to make the flag an object of a single party is a greater traitor to that flag than any man who fires at it.

Dont be afraid to take a big step if one is indicated. You cant cross a chasm in two small jumps.

The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things that matter for a nation; the great peaks of honour we had forgotten - duty and patriotism, clad in glittering white; the great pinnacle of sacrifice pointing like a rugged finger to heaven.

Don't be afraid to take a big step. You can't cross a chasm in two small jumps.

Unemployment, with its injustice for the man who seeks and thirsts for employment, who begs for labour and cannot get it, and who is punished for failure he is not responsible for by the starvation of his children – that torture is something that private enterprise ought to remedy for its own sake.

Cancer can take away all of my physical abilities. It cannot touch my mind, it cannot touch my heart, and it cannot touch my soul.

Death comes not to the living soul, nor age to the loving heart.

Style is as much under the words as in the words. It is as much the soul as it is the flesh of a work.

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

Every true prayer is a prayer of the Church; by means of that prayer the Church prays, since it is the Holy Spirit living in the Church, Who in every single soul 'prays in us with unspeakable groanings'.

Into every soul, however purged and fenced, evil appears to have as much freedom of entrance as God Himself.

I suppose, in a way, this has become part of my soul. It is a symbol of my life. Whatever I have done that really matters, I've done wearing it. When the time comes, it will be in this that I journey forth. What greater honor could come to an American, and a soldier?

People think how a sugar basin has no physiognomy, no soul. But it changes every day.

It's better to have a rich soul than to be rich.

Rude contact with facts chased my visions and dreams quickly away, and in their stead I beheld the horrors, the corruption, the evils and hypocrisy of society, and as I stood among them, a young wife, a great wail of agony went out from my soul.

Drugs will get you out of your own way, but we lived it, and that's dangerous. It can actually turn around on itself and steal your soul, and that's what happened.

Friendship! Mysterious cement of the soul, Sweet'ner of life, and solder of society.

Happiness, contentment, the health and growth of the soul, depend, as men have proved over and over again, upon some simple issue, some single turning of the soul.

When I sing, I don't want them to see that my face is black. I don't want them to see that my face is white. I want them to see my soul. And that is colorless.

My purpose... to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.

Music is the soul of language.

Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.

Dualists hold that body and soul are separate entities and that the soul will continue beyond the existence of the physical body.

Soul has no musical geographical or racial boundaries.

I am prepared to believe that a dry martini slightly impairs the palate, but think what it does for the soul.

Nothing contributes so much to tranquilize the mind as a steady purpose - a point on which the soul may fix its intellectual eye.

I would rather my soul broil in hell than I do you any harm.

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

Is there no Latin word for Tea? Upon my soul, if I had known that I would have let the vulgar stuff alone.

Jealousy is the jaundice of the soul.

Go miser go, for money sell your soul. Trade wares for wares and trudge from pole to pole, So others may say when you are dead and gone. See what a vast estate he left his son.

Language is the soul of intellect, and reading is the essential process by which that intellect is cultivated beyond the commonplace experiences of everyday life.