The intelligent ruler makes the law select men and makes no arbitrary appointment himself; he makes the law measure merits and makes no arbitrary judgment himself.
You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
To be an atheist requires an indefinitely greater measure of faith than to recieve all the great truths which atheism would deny.
Psychology helps to measure the probability that an aim is attainable.
The constitution vests the power of declaring war in Congress; therefore no offensive expedition of importance can be undertaken until after they shall have deliberated upon the subject and authorized such a measure.
To measure the success of our societies, we should examine how well those with different abilities, including persons with autism, are integrated as full and valued members.
We Americans sit at the head of the banquet table, as we have done for a century. Our standard of living is luxurious by any measure.
I think what television and video games do is reminiscent of drug addiction. There's a measure of reinforcement and a behavioural loop.
The success of the Allies in the west was in a measure offset by Teutonic victories in the east. When the invasion of Belgium began, Russia made immediate efforts to counteract by invasion of East Prussia.
The cacao content is a wrapper's most important datum, and the acceptable benchmark is seventy per cent. The figure is a measure of 'cocoa mass.'
The way we measure productivity is flawed. People checking their BlackBerry over dinner is not the measure of productivity.
Empty space is a boiling, bubbling brew of virtual particles that pop in and out of existence in a time scale so short that you can't even measure them.
There is nothing in machinery, there is nothing in embankments and railways and iron bridges and engineering devices to oblige them to be ugly. Ugliness is the measure of imperfection.
Common sense is the measure of the possible; it is composed of experience and prevision; it is calculation applied to life.
I emphasize that virtually every engineering calculation is ultimately a failure calculation, because without a failure criterion against which to measure the calculated result, it is a meaningless number.
Calendars and clocks exist to measure time, but that signifies little because we all know that an hour can seem as eternity or pass in a flash, according to how we spend it.
Well, paycheck protection is an important ingredient for a successful campaign finance reform measure.
I have ventured to write more intimately about my personal life than is customary for a member of the Supreme Court, and with that candor comes a measure of vulnerability.
The dome of the U.S. Capitol has fallen into severe disrepair... As the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration, which oversees matters of the Capitol's physical plant, I have serious concerns about the consequences of omitting this funding from the stopgap spending measure.
Your conscience is the measure of the honesty of your selfishness. Listen to it carefully.
