I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

I'm not a humanitarian, I'm a hell-raiser.

I have never had a vote, and I have raised hell all over this country. You don't need a vote to raise hell! You need convictions and a voice!

Whatever your fight, don't be ladylike.

Pray for the dead and fight like hell for the living.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough, someone who needed smoothing.

If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout Freedom for the working class!

Some day the workers will take possession of your city hall, and when we do, no child will be sacrificed on the altar of profit!

My address is like my shoes. It travels with me. I abide where there is a fight against wrong.

I am not afraid of the pen, or the scaffold, or the sword. I will tell the truth wherever I please.

The miners lost because they had only the constitution. The other side had bayonets. In the end, bayonets always win.

I believe that no man who holds a leader's position should ever accept favors from either side. He is then committed to show favors. A leader must stand alone.

I preferred sewing to bossing little children.

That is, the wife must care for what the husband cares for if he is to remain resolute.

Injustice boils in men's hearts as does steel in its cauldron, ready to pour forth, white hot, in the fullness of time.

I learned in the early part of my career that labor must bear the cross for others' sins, must be the vicarious sufferer for the wrongs that others do.

My teachers treated me as a diamond in the rough someone who needed smoothing.

Fortune makes a fool of those she favors too much.

Nature favors those organisms which leave the environment in better shape for their progeny to survive.

Democrats are not about to nominate anyone who backs the tax cut, and Americans are not going to elect anyone who favors a tax increase.

Technology favors horrible people.

Did you ever observe to whom the accidents happen? Chance favors only the prepared mind.

There are slavish souls who carry their appreciation for favors done them so far that they strangle themselves with the rope of gratitude.

Fortune favors the prepared mind.

There can be no greater error than to expect, or calculate, upon real favors from nation to nation. It is an illusion which experience must cure, which a just pride ought to discard.

The person who receives the most favors is the one who knows how to return them.

Friendship is an arrangement by which we undertake to exchange small favors for big ones.

Congress had the opportunity to extend tax relief to working families without increasing the deficit. Instead, we were handed a bill that favors the wealthy and eliminates deductions that benefit the middle class.

Indeed, our particular concept of private property, which deters us from exhausting the positive resources of the earth, favors pollution.

That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.

My attitude about Hollywood is that I wouldn't walk across the street to pull one of those executives out of the snow if he was bleeding to death. Not unless I was paid for it. None of them ever did me any favors.

Oh, that all the things my father had told me about how disgusting Washington is are true. And again it's the system - there are lots of nice, well-meaning people there. But it's a sleazy place. And politics is all about doing favors.

In the fields of observation chance favors only the prepared mind.

Natural selection, as it has operated in human history, favors not only the clever but the murderous.

Friendless. Having no favors to bestow. Destitute of fortune. Addicted to utterance of truth and common sense.

Fortune pays you sometimes for the intensity of her favors by the shortness of their duration. She soon tires of carrying any one long on her shoulders.

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors.

This is the moment when we must build on the wealth that open markets have created, and share its benefits more equitably. Trade has been a cornerstone of our growth and global development. But we will not be able to sustain this growth if it favors the few, and not the many.

Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude.

I was able to lean on people for favors and things to help out because their budget was so low. It was half of what John Travolta's perk package is on a film. Our whole budget was half of what his staff makes on a film.

They enlarged the domains of commerce by treaties with all nations, upon the great principle of equal justice to all nations, and special favors to none.

One answer is that the town's elected officials thought that the project served a public purpose and that the various subsidies and favors were worth the price. But they may or may not have thought this.

This world is run with far too tight a rein for luck to interfere. Fortune sells her wares; she never gives them. In some form or other, we pay for her favors; or we go empty away.

We secure our friends not by accepting favors but by doing them.

Louis Pasteur said, 'Chance favors the prepared mind.' If you're really engaged in the writing, you'll work yourself out of whatever jam you find yourself in.

The confidence in another man's virtue is no light evidence of a man's own, and God willingly favors such a confidence.

In this context, the church supports and favors every effort today to seek the full development of the personality of all human beings, and to promote their fundamental rights, their dignity and liberty.

Windows favors multi-threading, which means that a service is implemented by one single process.

Fortune favors the brave.