It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying and thereby they achieve great results.

That no government so called can reasonably be trusted or reasonably be supposed to have honest purposes in view any longer than it depends wholly upon voluntary support.

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

My reputation is too important to put it aside for purposes of some friendship. We have a job to do.

Rounding to the nearest cent is sufficiently accurate for practical purposes.

So the Marine Corps really did teach me to conquer fear and then to go for higher causes higher purposes.

When liberals finally grasped the strength of popular feeling about the family they cried to appropriate the rhetoric and symbolism of family values for their own purposes.

Most women are pragmatists who have allowed extremists on the left and right to manipulate the family issue for their own purposes.

Ends and purposes whether they exist as conscious or subconscious tendencies form the wrap and woof of our conscious experience.

Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the government's purposes are beneficent.