Government's first duty is to protect the people not run their lives.

Here is my first principle of foreign policy: good government at home.

The confession of evil works is the first beginning of good works.

A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time then I know it can't be much good.

Chocolate is the first luxury. It has so many things wrapped up in it: Deliciusness in the moment childhood memories and that grin-inducing feeling of getting a reward for being good.

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.

When you have shot one bird flying you have shot all birds flying. They are all different and they fly in different ways but the sensation is the same and the last one is as good as the first.

I met Woz when I was 13 at a friend's garage. He was about 18. He was like the first person I met who knew more electronics than I did at that point. We became good friends because we shared an interest in computer and we had a sense of humor. We pulled all kinds of pranks together.

The first requisite of a good citizen in this republic of ours is that he shall be able and willing to pull his own weight.

A return to first principles in a republic is sometimes caused by the simple virtues of one man. His good example has such an influence that the good men strive to imitate him and the wicked are ashamed to lead a life so contrary to his example.

He who is to be a good ruler must have first been ruled.

A good husband is never the first to go to sleep at night or the last to awake in the morning.

There are three kinds of intelligence: one kind understands things for itself the other appreciates what others can understand the third understands neither for itself nor through others. This first kind is excellent the second good and the third kind useless.

The Creator has not thought proper to mark those in the forehead who are of stuff to make good generals. We are first therefore to seek them blindfold and then let them learn the trade at the expense of great losses.

The care of human life and happiness and not their destruction is the first and only object of good government.

The first question which the priest and the Levite asked was: 'If I stop to help this man what will happen to me?' But... the good Samaritan reversed the question: 'If I do not stop to help this man what will happen to him?'

All the lessons of history in four sentences: Whom the gods would destroy they first make mad with power. The mills of God grind slowly but they grind exceedingly small. The bee fertilizes the flower it robs. When it is dark enough you can see the stars.

If you have not chosen the Kingdom of God first it will in the end make no difference what you have chosen instead.

In the Lord's Prayer the first petition is for daily bread. No one can worship God or love his neighbor on an empty stomach.

First I have to thank God for giving me the gift that he did as well as a second chance for a better life.

And that's really what's happening in this country is a violation of the First Commandment. We have become a country entrenched in idolatry and that idolatry is the dependency upon our government. We're supposed to depend upon God for our protection and our provision and for our daily bread not for our government.

God's first creature which was light.

Those whom God wishes to destroy he first makes mad.

It's a mystery. That's the first thing that interests me about the idea of God. If there is one it's mysterious and powerful and awesome to even consider the concept and you have to take it seriously.