When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

Christmas renews our youth by stirring our wonder. The capacity for wonder has been called our most pregnant human faculty, for in it are born our art, our science, our religion.

The roads of life are strewn with the wreckage of run-down and half-finished loves.

A true lover always feels in debt to the one he loves.

Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.

Whatever the right hand findeth to do, the left hand carries a watch on its wrist to show how long it takes to do it.

Nothing is so strong as gentleness and nothing is so gentle as real strength.

Good habits, which bring our lower passions and appetites under automatic control, leave our natures free to explore the larger experiences of life. Too many of us divide and dissipate our energies in debating actions which should be taken for granted.

A man has no more character than he can command in a time of crisis.

When the congregation becomes the norm by which sermons are measured, a minister has put a mortgage on his soul.

The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

Love is the outreach of self toward completion.

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

True humility is intelligent self respect which keeps us from thinking too highly or too meanly of ourselves. It makes us modest by reminding us how far we have come short of what we can be.

A service of worship is primarily a service to God. When we realize this and act upon it, we make it a service to men.

In overcoming prejudice, working together is even more effective than talking together.

The hate of men will pass, and dictators die, and the power they took from the people will return to the people. And so long as men die, liberty will never perish.

Khomeini was not a puppet like Arafat or Qaddafi or the many other dictators I met in the Islamic world. He was a sort of Pope, a sort of king - a real leader.

Dictators never invent their own opportunities.

We know that dictators are quick to choose aggression, while free nations strive to resolve differences in peace.

Bosses are no more inevitable in state and local governments than dictators are in national governments. They will arise and prosper, nevertheless, if true believers of democracy - citizens devoted to the democratic ideals - do not constantly oppose them.

Dictators must have enemies. They must have internal enemies to justify their secret police and external enemies to justify their military forces.

Ignorance is an evil weed, which dictators may cultivate among their dupes, but which no democracy can afford among its citizens.

We cannot forget the little things we take for granted in America that remain the disdain of dictators and terrorists throughout the world.

We have a president for whom English is a second language. He's like 'We have to get rid of dictators,' but he's pretty much one himself.

It is from weakness that people reach for dictators and concentrated government power. Only the strong can be free. And only the productive can be strong.

President Bush has shown great leadership. He has said that the 21st century will not be ruled or dictated by terrorists, dictators, and murderers. He is absolutely right. God bless him for his resolve.

When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, 'That is the real thing.'

A universal draft is most often the instrument of Third World dictators.

Democracy consists of choosing your dictators, after they've told you what you think it is you want to hear.

It's pretty well known that the CIA has been installing friendly dictators around the world for years.

A test of a people is how it behaves toward the old. It is easy to love children. Even tyrants and dictators make a point of being fond of children. But the affection and care for the old, the incurable, the helpless are the true gold mines of a culture.

There are, of course, all sorts of other unpleasant regimes outside the walls as well - the military dictators of Latin America and the apartheid regime of South Africa.

Dictators free themselves, but they enslave the people.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

I've recorded 25 or 30 albums. I know that sometimes when you work with producers who are kinda dictators, it doesn't help you make a better record.

To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.

Dictators are rulers who always look good until the last ten minutes.

More harm was done in the 20th century by faceless bureaucrats than tyrant dictators.

American presidents always avoid shaking hands with brutal dictators, except when it's advantageous to do so.

Africa has more dictators per capita than any other continent.

Corporations are the new dictators.

Dictators are interesting, no?

Even socialist dictators have an interest in gorgeous supermodels.

In the '60s, I did many satirical portraits of dictators.

Really, no-one is bad except for serial killers and dictators.

Warlords, dictators and terrorists are normally okay with the U.S., as long as they do the bidding of U.S. corporate interests.

If you think it's going to rain, it will.