In the military, they give medals for people who are willing to sacrifice themselves so that others may survive. In business, we give bonuses to people who sacrifice others.
There has to be a measure of faith. That's what this business is all about: trusting in something that may never show up, that you have no concrete proof of.
Why should we honour those that die upon the field of battle? A man may show as reckless a courage in entering into the abyss of himself.
If you look closely enough, amid the merciless and the bitter, there is always the chance that you may find comfort and the promise of something good.
Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs.
From our point of view, the most exciting thing would be if we discovered something really fundamental in our understanding was just off a bit - and that now we have a chance to revisit it.
For those whose faith has faded, the reasons may be real to them, but these reasons do not change the reality of what Joseph Smith restored.
I am slightly fascinated by the question of whether humanity is capable of change. I may have come to the conclusion that we're not, but we keep trying.
When one may pay out over two million dollars to presidential and Congressional campaigns, the U.S. government is virtually up for sale.
A short exposure to the convention convinced me that the Internet may save the Democracy in that it is a way for the people, for the citizens, to have some direct influence on the government.
A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must, in practice, be a bad government.
If the jury have no right to judge of the justice of a law of the government, they plainly can do nothing to protect the people against the oppressions of the government; for there are no oppressions which the government may not authorize by law.
While we may argue about the size of government, the Republican Party has not been a party that says, 'I want to destroy government.'
Parents don't need government to raise their kids. That's their job. But government can help them protect their children from influences they may not want their kids exposed to.
The health of a democratic society may be measured by the quality of functions performed by private citizens.
My health may be better preserved if I exert myself less, but in the end doesn't each person give his life for his calling?
It is the earnest hope of our people that the world may see the day when all nuclear weapons are abolished.
Every night when I go to bed, I hope that I may never wake again, and every morning renews my grief.
I hope this view of the question may be a mistaken one, because it does not seem to me very unlikely that the suffrage will be granted to women.
No matter how dark things may get in a story, I feel it's the responsibility of the storyteller to leave the audience with at least a shred of hope.
I hope that in 5 years from now I'll be working and doing what makes me happy. Whatever that may be.
