The economic and social problems would tend to become, like the military situation, more and more difficult as time went on and we became more and more isolated.
You cannot just keep borrowing more and more and keep spending more and more without eventually having a day of reckoning.
It was a cruel world though. More than half of all children died before they could reach maturity, thanks to chronic epidemics and malnutrition. People dropped like flies from polio and tuberculosis and smallpox and measles. There probably weren't ma...
Nothing is more noble than politeness, and nothing more ridiculous than ceremony.
It is in vain to say human beings ought to be satisfied with tranquillity: they must have action; and they will make it if they cannot find it. Millions are condemned to a stiller doom than mine, and millions are in silent revolt against their lot. N...
Whatever it was that people experience in Jesus has today come to be identified with medieval doctrines based on premodern assumptions that are no longer believable. That identification means that serious theological discussion seems to accomplish li...
It's our greed to extract more and more from good that turns it into evil.
There’s nothing that makes you more insane than family. Or more happy. Or more exasperated. Or more . . . secure.
The scary thing is, the more I slack off, the more it piles up and the more it piles up, the more I slack off.
In a fascist shift, reporters start to face more and more harassment, and they have to be more and more courageous simply in order to do their jobs.
In what areas are you learning and growing? If the answer is none that means you're stagnating or regressing. Learn more, earn more, know more, grow more!
I'm partial to slouchier, more free clothing. My icon is Patti Smith, so the more rips, the more punk, the more comfortable I feel.
It is notoriously true that the public mind is seriously agitated with apprehensions of negroes insurrections and that it is becoming more and more so.
The new world with more technology, more connectivity, more innovation, and more advantages is less forgiving than the one we left behind
Simply put, investors should own less equities, more bonds, more global investments, more cash and more dry ammunition.
Sex doesn't satisfy for a lifetime, the more you have it, the more you want it. And the more you have it, the more you die out.
What you do, is you gradually become more and more experienced, and more and more realistic about dramatic tolerance, i.e. about how long the play should be.
This commitment to truth is something one senses more and more Americans yearning for, just as they are becoming more and more sophisticated at knowing when the truth is being obscured - an irony that seems to elude most of today's elected officials.
We are hungry for more; if we do not consciously pursue the More, we create less for ourselves and make it more difficult to experience More in life.
I have seen in the Halls of Congress more idealism, more humanness, more compassion, more profiles of courage than in any other institution that I have ever known.
The right way to reign in healthcare costs is not by applying more government and more controls and making it more like the post office, it's by making it more like a consumer-driven market.
