R.S. Thomas Quotes
The Utopians feel that slaughtering our fellow creatures gradually destroys the sense of compassion, which is the finest sentiment of which our human nature is capable.
A Constitution is not the act of a Government, but of a people constituting a government, and a government without a constitution is a power without right.
If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected; if not, they will be despised.
The welfare state shields people from the consequences of their own mistakes, allowing irresponsibility to continue and to flourish among ever wider circles of people.
Despite a voluminous and often fervent literature on "income distribution," the cold fact is that most income is not distributed: It is earned.
The three great essentials to achieve anything worth while are: Hard work, Stick-to-itiveness, and Common sense.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Mystical references to society and its programs to help may warm the hearts of the gullible but what it really means is putting more power in the hands of bureaucrats.
We don't go into journalism to be popular. It is our job to seek the truth and put constant pressure on our leaders until we get answers.
An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens.
It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.
The sum and substance of the preparation needed for a coming eternity is that you believe what the Bible tells you, and do what the Bible bids you.
Things change for the better when we take responsibility for our own thoughts, decisions and actions.
I make more mistakes than anyone else I know, and sooner or later, I patent most of them.
I am ready to die for my Lord, that in my blood the Church may obtain liberty and peace.
Let us come alive to the splendor that is all around us and see the beauty in ordinary things.
The more the diamond is cut the brighter it sparkles; and in what seems hard dealing, there God has no end in view but to perfect His people.
Here bring your wounded hearts, here tell your anguish; Earth has no sorrow that Heaven cannot heal.
We are reminded that anger doesn't solve anything. It builds nothing, but it can destroy everything.
Love is the catalyst that causes change. Love is the balm that brings healing to the soul.
To catch the real meaning of the Spirit of Christmas, we need only drop the last syllable, and it becomes the Spirit of Christ.
Although the big word on the left is 'compassion,' the big agenda on the left is dependency.
Civil rights used to be about treating everyone the same. But today some people are so used to special treatment that equal treatment is considered to be discrimination.
I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation.
Determine never to be idle. No person will have occasion to complain of the want of time who never loses any. It is wonderful how much may be done if we are always doing.
It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.
A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak woman who has never had any strength to throw away.