Real power is achieved when the ruling class controls the material essentials of life, granting and withholding them from the masses as if they were privileges.
The real test of character is how you treat someone who has no possibility of doing you any good.
The real power, the power we have to fight for night and day, is not power over things, but over men.
Man is the only real enemy we have. Remove Man from the scene, and the root cause of hunger and overwork is abolished forever.
The problem was how to keep the wheels of industry turning without increasing the real wealth of the world. Goods must be produced, but they must not be distributed. And in practice the only way of achieving this was by continuous warfare.
The real hero is the man who fights even though he is scared.
A real man will never let his fear of death overpower his honor, his sense of duty to his country, and his innate manhood.
Americans love to fight. All real Americans love the sting of battle.
So let us do real fighting, boring in and gouging, biting.
So many people commute in this country by car long enough distances to really cut into their income, their real income, that they would change their vote based on gas prices.
I call my philosophy and approach compassionate conservatism. It is compassionate to actively help our fellow citizens in need. It is conservative to insist on responsibility and results. And with this hopeful approach, we will make a real difference in people’s lives.
The work in Iraq is difficult and it is dangerous. Like most Americans, I see the images of violence and bloodshed. Every picture is horrifying, and the suffering is real.
Science is important, but so is ethics, so is balancing life. To destroy life to save life – it’s one of the real ethical dilemmas that we face.
And we need a full affront on an energy crisis that is real in California and looms for other parts of our country if we don’t move quickly.
I would like to be remembered as a guy who had a set of priorities, and was willing to live by those priorities. In terms of accomplishments, my biggest accomplishment is that I kept the country safe amidst a real danger.
We’ve come to know truths that we will never question: evil is real, and it must be opposed.
I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by improving its agriculture, its breed of useful animals, and other branches of a husbandman’s cares.
It is on great occasions only, and after time has been given for cool and deliberate reflection, that the real voice of the people can be known.
The turning points of lives are not the great moments. The real crises are often concealed in occurrences so trivial in appearance that they pass unobserved.
True friendship is a plant of slow growth.