If the people cannot trust their government to do the job for which it exists - to protect them and to promote their common welfare - all else is lost.

How does it become a man to behave towards the American government today? I answer that he cannot without disgrace be associated with it.

So confident am I in the intentions as well as wisdom of the government that I shall always be satisfied that what is not done either cannot or ought not to be done.

Sometimes it is said that man cannot be trusted with the government of himself. Can he then be trusted with the government of others? Or have we found angels in the form of kings to govern him? Let history answer this question.

Nothing is more destructive of respect for the government and the law of the land than passing laws which cannot be enforced.

Since you cannot do good to all you are to pay special attention to those who by the accidents of time or place or circumstances are brought into closer connection with you.

Anyone who tells a lie has not a pure heart and cannot make a good soup.

The main foundations of every state new states as well as ancient or composite ones are good laws and good arms you cannot have good laws without good arms and where there are good arms good laws inevitably follow.

That which is not good for the bee-hive cannot be good for the bees.

Apply yourself both now and in the next life. Without effort you cannot be prosperous. Though the land be good You cannot have an abundant crop without cultivation.

It is a fact often observed that men have written good verses under the inspiration of passion who cannot write well under other circumstances.

The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them.

I choose my friends for their good looks my acquaintances for their good characters and my enemies for their intellects. A man cannot be too careful in the choice of his enemies.

I believe that we parents must encourage our children to become educated so they can get into a good college that we cannot afford.

To the mind God is a perfect criminal. He has done such a perfect crime by creating this world that mind cannot trace how He did it. That is why the mind always freaks out about God.

You cannot do anything without God.It's a profound and elemental truth. Not you cannot do most things without God. You will not be able to do anything that you want truly in fulfillment without God.

O that unbelievers would learn of faithful Abraham and believe whatever is revealed from God though they cannot fully comprehend it! Abraham knew God commanded him to offer up his son and therefore believed notwithstanding carnal reasoning might suggest may objections.

Even Kings and emperors with heaps of wealth and vast dominion cannot compare with an ant filled with the love of God.

The religious idea of God cannot do full duty for the metaphysical infinity.

God not only plays dice but also sometimes throws them where they cannot be seen.

Ministry is the least important thing. You cannot not minister if you are in communion with God and live in community.

That God does not exist I cannot deny That my whole being cries out for God I cannot forget.

God cannot alter the past though historians can.

I can very well do without God both in my life and in my painting but I cannot suffering as I am do without something which is greater than I am which is my life the power to create.