"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."

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"Any Ambassador or Foreign Service Officer who has his or her head screwed on right knows that the U.S. position in the world is far more dependent on our ability to compete in world markets."

Lawrence Eagleburger, American Diplomat

Ability, Right, Service, World

"My appearance was always good and my ability to play on the piano, especially ragtime, which was then at the height of its vogue, made me a welcome guest."

James Weldon Johnson, American Poet

Ability, Appearance, Guest, Play

"The bottom line in my view is that America's mothers and fathers deserve to have confidence in law enforcement's ability to ensure that their children are being raised in the safest possible environment."

Bob Ney, American Politician

Ability, America, Being, Children

"Studies serve for delight, for ornaments, and for ability."

Francis Bacon, English Philosopher

Ability, Delight

"I really enjoy myself in Norway. Because I had started losing confidence in my ability of what I do. But sometimes, man, you just get tired of fighting and trying to prove yourself."

Ike Turner, American Musician

Ability, Confidence, Fighting, Losing

"It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder."

Bob Ney, American Politician

Ability, Information, Risk, Security

"I didn't want to be a writer, but I became one. And now I have many readers, in many countries. I think that's a miracle. So I think I have to be humble regarding this ability. I'm proud of it and I enjoy it, and it is strange to say it this way, but I respect it."

Haruki Murakami, Japanese Writer

Ability, Countries, Now, Respect

"I made the most of my ability and I did my best with my title."

Joe Louis, American Athlete

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"Ability without honor is useless."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Ability, Honor

"That ability to take in your surroundings and sort out the important stuff, to be aware, to be vigilant. Then take all that information, put it together, and see if it makes sense to you."

Paul Gleason, American Actor

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"Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other."

Society

"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."

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"The most important of all revolutions, a revolution in sentiments, manners and moral opinions."

Revolution

"What ever disunites man from God, also disunites man from man."

God

"Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays instead of serving you if he sacrifices it to your opinion."

Judgment

"Under the pressure of the cares and sorrows of our mortal condition, men have at all times, and in all countries, called in some physical aid to their moral consolations - wine, beer, opium, brandy, or tobacco."

Man

"It is the interest of the commercial world that wealth should be found everywhere."

Wealth

"Nobility is a graceful ornament to the civil order. It is the Corinthian capital of polished society."

Society

"To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men."

Love

"Whenever a separation is made between liberty and justice, neither, in my opinion, is safe."

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