Reagan himself, for much of his life, was devoted against the elites. His antagonism to the Soviet Union is antagonism against oppression by the elites of the many.

They say that every writer, they write about himself, and I think that to a certain extent that is true. But also we are creators of fiction.

He that would make his own liberty secure, must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.

Every individual has his own style, his own way of presenting himself on and off the field.

Man’s unique reward, however, is that while animals survive by adjusting themselves to their background, man survives by adjusting his background to himself.

I have yet to find a man worth his salt in any direction who did not think of himself first and foremost.

The most difficult secret for a man to keep is his own opinion of himself.

Most of the things that need to be said about the President are things he can’t say himself.

I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.

He tries to find the exit from himself but there is no door.

My own view would be to let Saddam bluster, let him rant and rave all he wants. As long as he behaves himself within his own borders, we should not be addressing any attack or...

When the traveler goes alone he gets acquainted with himself.

A horse is a thing of beauty… none will tire of looking at him as long as he displays himself in his splendor.

To say that Reagan teaches us that we should be against amnesty for illegal immigrants is to contradict what Reagan himself stood for – that he was in favor of amnesty.

Resolve to be thyself: and know that he who finds himself, loses his misery.

It is necessary to the happiness of man that he be mentally faithful to himself. Infidelity does not consist in believing, or in disbelieving, it consists in professing to believe what he does not believe.

Adversity has a way of introducing a man to himself.

So long as we have failed to eliminate any of the causes of human despair, we do not have the right to try to eliminate those means by which man tries to cleanse himself of...

The candidate was required to prepare himself by confession, fasting, and passing the night in prayer.

I am a very shy person who is just close to himself. So I would refrain from talking about my personal life.

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don’t see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.

It behooves every man who values liberty of conscience for himself, to resist invasions of it in the case of others: or their case may, by change of circumstances, become his own.

Teaching others, he corrected himself.

A genius knows how to make himself easily understood without being obvious about it.

The true purpose of education is to teach a man to carry himself triumphant to the sunset.

All a Jew has to do is recite a few proverbs or anecdotes to consider himself an expert on ‘Jewishness.’

A military man can scarcely pride himself on having smitten a sleeping enemy; it is more a matter of shame, simply, for the one smitten.

The need of expansion is as genuine an instinct in man as the need in a plant for the light, or the need in man himself for going upright. The love of liberty is simply...

I never try to show an actor what to do or what to say. He has to find out for himself. The role of the director is to guide him to that state, and then...

A man perceives himself as owning and being owned by a woman.

Our liberal, New York/Washington-based media would never in a million years put Liberal Godfather Ted Kennedy on the spot about his clan’s bad behavior, to whose lurid history he himself has contributed so much.

Treat every Frenchman as if he was the devil himself.

A man may make a misanthrope of himself, but he is never one by nature.

A schoolmaster should have an atmosphere of awe, and walk wonderingly, as if he was amazed at being himself.

When a man assumes a public trust he should consider himself a public property.

Every writer, to some extent, writes about himself.

He is a very humble man, that thinks not himself better than some others.

Your meditations may be as profound, as exalted, as devout as you like; you may practise every pious exercise you can manage, but all this is as nothing in comparison with the Blessed Sacrament. What...

I think R. Kelly’s range is so vast and broad that in order to stimulate himself creatively as an artist, he has to step so, so far outside the box, or else he feels like...

Obama’s foreign policy is strangely self-centered, focused on himself and the United States rather than on the conduct and needs of the nations the United States allies with, engages with, or must confront.

The liberty of man consists solely in this, that he obeys the laws of nature because he has himself recognized them as such, and not because they have been imposed upon him externally by any...

The free, independent spirit who commits himself to no dogma and will not decide in favor of any party has no homestead on earth.

British people might wonder ‘What the hell is Kenneth Branagh doing directing ‘Thor?’ but the person asking that the most was Kenneth Branagh. I think he was more surprised than anyone else to find himself...

Man has done a lot to make himself dangerous and animals get the worst of all of it. But then, man too is an animal.

Nobody is more dangerous than he who imagines himself pure in heart; for his purity, by definition, is unassailable.

I know that I’m not the easiest person to live with. The challenge I put on myself is so great that the person I live with feels himself challenged. I bring a lot to bear,...

I’ve always considered myself a filmmaker who writes stuff for himself to do.

That government is the strongest of which every man feels himself a part.

‘2016’ is based on an experiment: what if you let Obama do it himself? That experiment is necessarily limited because I’m not factoring in a Republican House, a Supreme Court or the tug of public...

A man’s opinion is in others; his being is in himself.