The exact measure of the progress of civilization is the degree in which the intelligence of the common mind has prevailed over wealth and brute force.

Action is the real measure of intelligence.

There are two worlds: the world we can measure with line and rule and the world that we feel with our hearts and imagination.

The realities of the world seldom measure up to the sublime designs of human imagination.

The degree in which a poet's imagination dominates reality is in the end the exact measure of his importance and dignity.

Children that are raised in a home with a married mother and father consistently do better in every measure of well-being than their peers who come from divorced or step-parent single-parent cohabiting homes.

Nixon in 1968 unlike Obama 2008 was elected as a minority president with only 43 percent of the vote. Yet in 1972 he won what in some measures was the most lopsided election in American history with 61 percent.

Although... the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only but of the whole people of the United States.

During the last regular session and the most recent special session measures that I see as little more than Band-Aids were applied to three health programs in the state.

City governments ought to be abolished if only as a public health measure.