Ezra Taft Benson Quotes

That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

Ezra Taft Benson

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• I still draw a lot though. Ballpoint pen is my preferred medium.

  

  Mackenzie Crook
  • Still
  • Medium
  • Pen

• The British have always made terrible parents.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Parents
  • Always
  • British

• I hope to attend it as Japan needs to tell the world the lessons, knowledge and reflections learned from the nuclear crisis at the Fukushima No. 1 power plant.

  

  Yoshihiko Noda
  • World
  • Power
  • Hope

• No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.

  

  Paris Hilton
  • She
  • Woman
  • Sexy

• I remember as a little girl I could tell you the name of the dog next door, but I couldn't tell you the names of the kids. The dog was my best friend. I love animals. They give so much to you and demand so little.

  

  Olivia Newton-John
  • Remember
  • Girl
  • Friend

• I feared vulnerability more than my actual emotional pain itself!

  

  Karen Salmansohn
  • Pain
  • Emotional
  • More

• One can not impede scientific progress.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Science
  • Progress

• No Hindu community, however low, will touch cow's flesh. On the other hand, there is no community which is really an Untouchable community which has not something to do with the dead cow. Some eat her flesh, some remove the skin, some manufacture articles out of her skin and bones.

  

  Babasaheb
  • Community
  • Hand
  • Dead

• I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.

  

  Sam Sheppard
  • Believe
  • Media
  • Marketing

• Rand Paul does not like being compared to his father Ron any more than sons named Bush like to dance in their father's shadow, but the crucial difference is that while the Bushes all hail from the relative mainstream of the GOP, the Pauls have an ideological tributary virtually to themselves.

  

  Nancy Gibbs
  • Father
  • Dance
  • Shadow

• I once had someone say to me in an interview, 'You are more ugly on the screen than in real life.'

  

  Maisie Williams
  • Life
  • Real
  • Me

• I owe everything to France.

  

  Ingrid Betancourt
  • Everything
  • France
  • Owe

• At the beginning of the week, I roast a ton of vegetables so I can use them for the next few days. I also plan out meals in advance.

  

  Gail Simmons
  • Beginning
  • Week
  • Plan

• Thomas Davis was a great man where poetry is concerned, and a better than Thomas Moore. All over Ireland his poetry is, and he would have done other things but that he died young.

  

  Lady Gregory
  • Great
  • Done
  • Man

• The camera and I have always had good chemistry.

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • Good
  • Camera
  • Chemistry

• You know, I think I am faintly spiritual.

  

  Damian Lewis
  • Spiritual

• The worst thing that we could do is raises taxes. It would only hurt the economy.

  

  Dan Bartlett
  • Hurt
  • Economy
  • Taxes

• Any professional athlete will tell you that the mind is everything. For me, there is no shame in saying that I visualize and I meditate, because it really works.

  

  Carli Lloyd
  • Mind
  • Professional
  • Athlete

• Yes, in the commercial world there's room for both McDonald's and Whole Foods, but in the realm of politics, we're told, it's either Filet-o-Fish or line-caught salmon: only one can prevail - and which is up to you.

  

  Walter Kirn
  • Up
  • World
  • Politics

• I'm sure it has to be a species distinct from us. There is speculation that it could be a diseased human, but this is nothing like that.

  

  Andrew Hill
  • Human
  • Species
  • Speculation

• The big turn in the late 90s was that I realized I was going to be doing this for a long time. I was fairly sure I was going to be an actor for the rest of my life, which I think calmed me down.

  

  Michael Weatherly
  • Time
  • Thinking
  • Actors

• I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Up
  • Period
  • Creativity

• London, ... like a bowl of viscid human fluid, boils sullenly over the rim of its encircling hills and slops messily into the home counties.

  

  H. G. Wells
  • Home
  • London
  • Hills

• That the sole object and only legitimate end of government is to protect the citizen in the enjoyment of life, liberty, and property, and when the government assumes other functions it is usurpation and oppression.

  

  Ezra Taft Benson
  • Government
  • Liberty
  • Protect