But if there's an erosion at home you know Thomas Jefferson warned about a tyranny of an oligarchy and if we surrender our democracy to the tyranny of an oligarchy we've made a terrible mistake.

Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble us up if we did not blindly rally behind it.

I like making things. I have a wood shop at home. I am a terrible carpenter but I love doing it.

I wanted to make sure that the man who found the genie would not take terrible advantage of her so he needed to be a person of integrity and honor - which is why I made the male lead an astronaut. The rest as they say is history.

Life is a wonderful thing to talk about or to read about in history books - but it is terrible when one has to live it.

In this world without quiet corners there can be no easy escapes from history from hullabaloo from terrible unquiet fuss.

September 11 was terrible but if one goes back over the history of the IRA what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.

The Establishment center... has led us into the stupidest and cruelest war in all history. That war is a moral and political disaster - a terrible cancer eating away at the soul of our nation.

American history is longer larger more various more beautiful and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.

The most terrible job in warfare is to be a second lieutenant leading a platoon when you are on the battlefield.

The average healthy well-adjusted adult gets up at seven-thirty in the morning feeling just plain terrible.

For all its terrible faults in one sense America is still the last best hope of mankind because it spells out so vividly the kind of happiness that most people actually want regardless of what they are told they ought to want.

Happiness does not come from football awards. It's terrible to correlate happiness with football. Happiness comes from a good job being able to feed your wife and kids. I don't dream football I dream the American dream - two cars in a garage be a happy father.

I visited those friends who'd just had a baby and she was washing dishes and he was cleaning the house and I burst with happiness. And in their minds they were in this terrible domestic rut.

It is now possible to quantify people's levels of happiness pretty accurately by asking them by observation and by measuring electrical activity in the brain in degrees from terrible pain to sublime joy.

There seems to be a terrible misunderstanding on the part of a great many people to the effect that when you cease to believe you may cease to behave.

The truth. It is a beautiful and terrible thing and must therefore be treated with great caution.

There is something great and terrible about suicide.

Fables should be taught as fables myths as myths and miracles as poetic fantasies. To teach superstitions as truths is a most terrible thing. The child mind accepts and believes them and only through great pain and perhaps tragedy can he be in after years relieved of them.

Thought is subversive and revolutionary destructive and terrible Thought is merciless to privilege established institutions and comfortable habit. Thought is great and swift and free.

Ignorance of all things is an evil neither terrible nor excessive nor yet the greatest of all but great cleverness and much learning if they be accompanied by a bad training are a much greater misfortune.

To declare that in the administration of criminal law the end justifies the means to declare that the Government may commit crimes in order to secure conviction of a private criminal would bring terrible retribution.

We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.

That terrible mood of depression of whether it's any good or not is what is known as The Artist's Reward.