All of us should be on guard against beliefs that flatter ourselves. At the very least, we should check such beliefs against facts.
Thomas Sowell
Facts do not speak for themselves. They speak for or against competing theories. Facts divorced from theories or visions are mere isolated... →
When I played Bobby Fischer, my opponent fought against organizations - the television producers and the match organizers. But he never fought... →
Boris Spassky
American credibility in the war on terrorism depends on a strong stand against all terrorist acts, whether committed by foe or friend.
Arlen Specter
Why do people refuse to vaccinate their children against measles or whooping cough? In many cases, because they have never seen measles and have no... →
Michael Specter
All I know is that these two gases both had a quite extraordinary effect, and that there was no respirator, and no protection against them that we... →
Albert Speer
The trend of the market is up, not down. Shorting stocks puts you against that trend and thus makes it more difficult to make money.
Guy Spier
Our criminal justice system is fallible. We know it, even though we don't like to admit it. It is fallible despite the best efforts of most... →
Eliot Spitzer
I'm not a pacifist. I was very much for the war against Hitler and I also supported the intervention in Korea, but in this war we went in there... →
Benjamin Spock
We've got to deal with the fact that the church has been violently prejudiced against gay people. We've murdered them; we've burned them... →
John Shelby Spong