#sm

Liberalism is trust of the people tempered by prudence. Conservatism is distrust of the people tempered by fear. ↗

— William E. Gladstone

#conservatism #distrust #fear #liberalism #people

To imply that religious believers have no right to engage moral questions in the public square or at the ballot is simply to establish a Reichian secularism as our state faith. ↗

— Maggie Gallagher

#believers #engage #establish #faith #imply

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life. ↗

— Peter Gallagher

#about #accepted #acting #businessman #degree

Many pilots of the time were the opinion that a fighter pilot in a closed cockpit was an impossible thing, because you should smell the enemy. You could smell them because of the oil they were burning. ↗

— Adolf Galland

#burning #closed #cockpit #could #enemy

If Romeo and Juliet make a tragedy of it nowadays, they have only to blame their own mismanagement, for the world is with them as it has never been before, and all sensible fathers and mothers know it. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#before #blame #fathers #juliet #know

The beauty we love is very silent. It smiles softly to itself, but never speaks. ↗

— Richard Le Gallienne

#itself #love #love is #never #silent

I'm so in love with the United States. Not as a patriot. I'm in love with America like it's my first girlfriend. The geography, the people, the smell, the touch, the taste, the gas stations. I'm madly in love with America. ↗

— Vincent Gallo

#first #gas #geography #girlfriend #i

Idealism increases in direct proportion to one's distance from the problem. ↗

— John Galsworthy

#direct proportion #distance #idealism #increases #problem

Have a bias toward action - let's see something happen now. You can break that big plan into small steps and take the first step right away. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#away #bias #big #break #first

My father was a statesman, I am a political woman. My father was a saint. I am not. ↗

— Indira Gandhi

#father #i #i am #political #saint