A.T. Baron Quotes

For years, European leaders have pointed out that Europe is an economic giant, but a military pygmy.

A generous man places the benefits he confers beneath his feet; those he receives, nearest his heart.

I'm a bit of a freak for evidence-based analysis. I strongly believe in data.

The so-called new morality is too often the old immorality condoned.

The schoolmaster is abroad, and I trust to him, armed with his primer, against the soldier in full military array...

In all "benedictions", be they expressing plea or thanksgiving, we affirm that God is the "source" of every bounty we enjoy and of every favour we seek.

As a lawyer I am before and above all things for the supremacy of law.

It is far more important the law should be administered with absolute integrity, than that in this case or in that the law should be a good law or a bad one.

A difficult form of virtue is to try in your own life to obey what you believe to be God's will.

There is scarcely a crime before me that is not directly or indirectly caused by strong drink.

History is a record of exploded ideas.

In war the first principle is to disobey orders. Any fool can obey orders!

In the scenes of moral life the soul is at once actor and spectator.

Grand business plans are all very well, but nothing beats dipping your toe in the water.

It was always said that the big distinction between the French and the English is that the English are intelligent and the French are intellectual.

So all the system was running down and collapsing. Mrs. Thatcher became the leader of the Conservative Party in February 1975, and she clearly wanted to strike out and do something different.

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

That corporations are the creatures of the Crown must be universally admitted.

What is clear to one man may be doubtful to another.

Private enterprise in cricket might not be regarded as the last word, and ultimate state direction would not do it any harm.

You can bend it and twist it... You can misuse and abuse it... But even God cannot change the Truth.

The danger with Margret Thatcher is that when she speaks without thinking she says what she thinks.

The angels and the saints rejoice at the sight of men on earth who struggle, suffer and labor for the love of Christ.

People who achieve a sense of meaning in their lives are happier than those who live from one pleasure to another.

My exit is the result of too many entrees.

Like having your own licence to print money.

I'm frank, brutally frank. And even when I'm not frank, I look frank.

I buy newspapers to make money to buy more newspapers to make more money.

I don't know if I'm brave.

Marriage is the wastebasket for human emotions.

The pause is a part of the walk.

Keep advertising and advertising will keep you.

Confessions may be good for the soul but they are bad for the reputation.

Leave for tomorrow what you can't do today.

As ye of clay were cast by kind, So shall ye waste to dust.

Liberty is the right to do what the law permits.

We need to move beyond the demonisation of overpaid traders ... In finance and economics, ill-designed policy is a more powerful force for harm than individual greed or error.

The probability that we face global warming caused by fossil fuels is now so overwhelming that it is legitimate to doubt the motives of those who deny it

It is thus superstition infatuates man from his infancy, fills him with vanity, and enslaves him with fanaticism.

I am the donation to the foundation.

When the [law making] and [law enforcement] powers are united in the same person... there can be no liberty.

There is hardly any grief that an hour's reading will not dissipate.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

Trade is the best cure for prejudice.

Republics are brought to their ends by luxury; monarchies by poverty.

Vitam Impendere Vero (I consecrate my life to truth).

As virtue is necessary in a republic, and honor in a monarchy, fear is what is required in a despotism. As for virtue, it is not at all necessary, and honor would be dangerous there.

Each particular society begins to feel its strength, whence arises a state of war between different nations.

Liberty is the right of doing whatever the laws permit.

If you're driving down the street, you keep the neck forward. So that way you can clear out the lanes.