He who is void of virtuous attachments in private life is, or very soon will be, void of all regard for his country. There is seldom an instance of a man guilty of betraying his country, who had not before lost the feeling of moral obligations in his...
The president and Republicans in Congress have repeatedly promised to revisit Social Security privatization after November. But Americans have already said, loud and clear, that they don't want Social Security to be privatized or dismantled.
Teddy Roosevelt "had relished "every hour" of every day as president. Indeed, (he was) fearing the "dull thud" he would experience upon returning to private life.
If I care about poverty, I have to care a lot about investments in the private sector. The private sector creates the vast majority of jobs in the world, and social protection only goes so far.
I joined the army as a private. I was offered a rank at that time, but I refused. I preferred to remain a private. First of all, I wasn't taken by ranks, and before I knew it, they put me in the most sensitive positions anyway.
Private Joker: Leonard, if Hartman comes in here and catches us, we'll both be in a world of shit. Private Gomer Pyle: I *am*... in a world... of shit.
Private Joker: I wanna slip my tube steak into your sister. What'll you take in trade? Private Cowboy: What do you got?
Private Eightball: Oh, sheeit! [laughs] Private Eightball: This baby-san looks like she can suck the chrome off a trailer hitch.
[the recruits have administered a "sock party" beating on Private Pyle] Private Cowboy: Remember, this was all just a bad dream, fat boy!
Kliest: [in German; subtitled] Mein Führer, do you still wish to see Private Butz? Adolf Hitler: [in German] Who and what is a "Private Butz"?
Captain Miller: He better be worth it. He better go home and cure a disease, or invent a longer-lasting light bulb.
Gen. George C. Marshall: That boy is alive. We are gonna send somebody to find him. And we are gonna get him the Hell... outta there.
Corporal Upham: "Theirs is not to reason why, theirs is but to do or die." Mellish: La-la-la-la-la-la-la-la. What the fuck is that supposed to mean?
Sergeant Horvath: Why don't you just hand 'em blindfolds, Captain? Captain Miller: All we can do here is die.
Edward Ferrars: All I want - all I have ever wanted - is the quiet of a private life, but, eh, my mother is determined to see me distinguished.
Da Fino, Private Snoop: I'm a brother shamus! The Dude: Brother Seamus? Like an Irish monk? Da Fino, Private Snoop: What the fuck are you talking about?
It strikes me as very strange that whereas Tennyson could support most of Mr. Buckley's propositions about free trade, and the private sector, and private enterprise, Tennyson found no difficulty also in lending intellectual support to the idea of Wo...
Property damage is so much easier to live with than murder.
Some people are born to be public property.
No man's life, liberty, or property are safe while the legislature is in session.
With the people, especially a people seized of property, resides the aggregate of original power.
