D. M. Thomas Quotes
The reason that Christianity is the best friend of government is because Christianity is the only religion that changes the heart.
The legitimate powers of government extend to such acts only as are injurious to others.
Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.
This moment exhibits infinite space, but there is a space also wherein all moments are infinitely exhibited, and the everlasting duration of infinite space is another region and room of joys.
The spirit of resistance to government is so valuable on certain occasions that I wish it to be always kept alive.
Reading a novel in which all characters illustrate patience, hard work, chastity, and delayed gratification could be a pretty dull experience.
Only one absolute certainty is possible to man, namely that at any given moment the feeling which he has exists.
Basically all the world's computer parts come from the same supply chain that runs from Korea, down through coastal China, over to Taiwan, and down to Malaysia.
The left takes its vision seriously - more seriously than it takes the rights of other people. They want to be our shepherds. But that requires us to be sheep.
Time changes everything except something within us which is always surprised by change.
The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers.
He who loves with purity considers not the gift of the lover, but the love of the giver.
Tonight, I am pleased to announce that I have secured $1 million from the Convention Host Committee to fund the beautification of Boston's neighborhoods.
Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
May God prevent us from becoming "right-thinking men"-that is to say men who agree perfectly with their own police.
Any job worth doing is worth doing well. But to be able to do that, you have to do it over and over again.
Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us.
Elections should be held on April 16th- the day after we pay our income taxes. That is one of the few things that might discourage politicians from being big spenders.
The Study of philosophy is not that we may know what men have thought, but what the truth of things is.
All men, among themselves, are by nature equal. The inequality we now discern hath its spring from the civil law.
It is from the progeny of this parent cell that we all take our looks; we still share genes around, and the resemblance of the enzymes of grasses to those of whales is in fact a family resemblance.
The mistletoe hung in the castle hall, The holly branch shone on the old oak wall.
In a democracy, we have always had to worry about the ignorance of the uneducated. Today we have to worry about the ignorance of people with college degrees.
Would you bet your paycheck on a weather forecast for tomorrow? If not, then why should this country bet billions on global warming predictions that have even less foundation?
What 'multiculturalism' boils down to is that you can praise any culture in the world except Western culture - and you cannot blame any culture in the world except Western culture.
It is an enduring truth, which can never be altered, that every infraction of the Law of nature must carry its punitive consequences with it. We can never get beyond that range of cause and effect.
My father said there were two kinds of people in the world: givers and takers. The takers may eat better, but the givers sleep better.
Make a commitment to your self that today, success is your only options! No matter the obstacles, no matter the sacrifice! you have decided you won't be denied, you won't be defeated!
