I won't take my religion from any man who never works except with his mouth.

Why should a great and powerful nation like the United States allow its relationship with more than a billion Muslims around the world to be defined by the narrow hatred and nihilistic actions of an exceptionally small minority of Muslims?

But the power of instruction is seldom of much efficacy except in those happy dispositions where it is almost superfluous.

I say the law should be blind to race gender and sexual orientation just as it claims to be blind to wealth and power. There should be no specially protected groups of any kind except for children the severely disabled and the elderly whose physical frailty demands society's care.

Power is no blessing in itself except when it is used to protect the innocent.

It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own.

Except our own thoughts there is nothing absolutely in our power.

The power of man has grown in every sphere except over himself.

There is no meaning to life except the meaning man gives his life by the unfolding of his powers.

The World Cup tournament overall and naturally the new stadiums at its heart are the ideal platform to portray Germany as a positive and exceptional location and above all of course as a highly capable economic location.