One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

The lives of the best of us are spent in choosing between evils.

It is the coward who fawns upon those above him. It is the coward who is insolent whenever he dares be so.

Oppression is more easily endured than insult.

It is not that you do wrong by design, but that you should never do right by mistake.

There is a holy, mistaken zeal in politics, as well as in religion. By persuading others, we convince ourselves.

It is the eternal truth in the political as well as the mystical body, that, where one member suffers, all the members suffer with it.

How much easier is it to be generous than just.

One precedent creates another and they soon accumulate and constitute law. What yesterday was a fact, today is doctrine.

The right of election is the very essence of the constitution.

Notable talents are not necessarily connected with discretion.

The integrity of men is to be measured by their conduct, not by their professions.

When a person is determined to believe something, the very absurdity of the doctrine confirms them in their faith.

Whether it be the heart to conceive, the understanding to direct, or the hand to execute.

The injustice done to an individual is sometimes of service to the public.

The liberty of the Press is the Palladium of all the civil, political and religious rights of an Englishman.

Private credit is wealth public honor is security the feather that adorns the royal bird supports its flight strip him of his plumage and you fix him to the earth.

Guilt alone like brain sick frenzy in its feverish mood fills the light air with visionary terrors and shapeless forms of fear.

The methods of peace propaganda which aim at establishing peace doctrine by argument and by creating a feeling favorable to peace in general seem to fall short of reaching the springs of human action and of dealing with the causes of the conduct which they seek to modify.

There is no nonsense so gross that society will not, at some time, make a doctrine of it and defend it with every weapon of communal stupidity.

My esoteric doctrine, is that if you entertain any doubt, it is safest to take the unpopular side in the first instance. Transit from the unpopular, is easy... but from the popular to the unpopular is so steep and rugged that it is impossible to maintain it.

Example moves the world more than doctrine. The great exemplars are the poets of action, and it makes little difference whether they be forces for good or forces for evil.

There is a set of religious, or rather moral, writings which teach that virtue is the certain road to happiness, and vice to misery in this world. A very wholesome and comfortable doctrine, and to which we have but one objection, namely, that it is not true.

This brings us to Anarchism, which may be described as the doctrine that all the affairs of men should be managed by individuals or voluntary associations, and that the State should be abolished.

Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.

There are many who lust for the simple answers of doctrine or decree. They are on the left and right. They are not confined to a single part of the society. They are terrorists of the mind.

I wish to preach, not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of the strenuous life.

It is a thoroughly anti-christian doctrine that the Spirit of God, and therefore the life and governing power of the Church, resides in the ministry, to the exclusion of the people.

This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.

Optimism - the doctrine or belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly.

My doctrine is this, that if we see cruelty or wrong that we have the power to stop, and do nothing, we make ourselves sharers in the guilt.

For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point of departure for the metaphysical journey.

Many a doctrine is like a window pane. We see truth through it but it divides us from truth.

A rule I have had for years is: to treat the Lord Jesus Christ as a personal friend. His is not a creed, a mere doctrine, but it is He Himself we have.

The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom.

The doctrine of the immortality of the soul has more threat than comfort.

In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors, since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors, for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal applies only upwards, not downwards.

I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a working proposition as any one of the axioms of physics.

There is a kind of thinking in the Church that wants to reduce the priest to a mere functionary, a managing director, where administration rather than doctrine and worship are to determine the form of the Church.

The doctrine of the Kingdom of Heaven, which was the main teaching of Jesus, is certainly one of the most revolutionary doctrines that ever stirred and changed human thought.

The doctrine that all men are, in any sense, or have been, at any time, free and equal, is an utterly baseless fiction.

We can safely abandon the doctrine of the eighties, namely that the rich were not working because they had too little money, the poor because they had much.

Meanwhile the Church more and more provided for the doctrine of the Holy Spirit, by practically chaining His influence to the hierarchy and the sacraments.

What I did was, I went and collected every bit of information from Adventist publishing houses in the basic areas of doctrine covered in the book Questions on Doctrine.

I do not subscribe to the doctrine that the people are the slaves and property of their government. I believe that government is for the use of the people, and not the people for the use of the government.

We had, after all, no other recourse to protect ourselves, no other document, let's say, than the Monroe Doctrine. So that could be cited as a cause for intervention if and when it might become necessary.

Now since France has three times in sixty years failed to obtain practical results from Political revolutions, all Europe is apt to press forward into new Social doctrine to regulate the future.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

The great appeal of the doctrine that the mind is a blank slate is the simple mathematical fact that zero equals zero.