I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.
Thomas Jefferson

Where the stakes are the highest, in the war on terror, we cannot possibly succeed without extraordinary international cooperation. Effective international police actions require the highest degree of intelligence sharing, planning and collaborative enforcement.
Barack Obama

The smarter the journalists are, the better off society is. For to a degree, people read the press to inform themselves-and the better the teacher, the better the student body.
Warren Buffett

Man becomes great exactly in the degree in which he works for the welfare of his fellow-men.
Mohandas Gandhi

It might be said now that I have the best of both worlds. A Harvard education and a Yale degree.
John F. Kennedy

No doubt exists that all women are crazy; it's only a question of degree.
W. C. Fields

Anybody can become angry - that is easy, but to be angry with the right person and to the right degree and at the right time and for the right purpose, and in the right way - that is not within everybody's power and is not easy.
Aristotle

I think of a hero as someone who understands the degree of responsibility that comes with his freedom.
Bob Dylan

Bullfighting is the only art in which the artist is in danger of death and in which the degree of brilliance in the performance is left to the fighter's honor.
Ernest Hemingway

What we call happiness in the strictest sense comes from the (preferably sudden) satisfaction of needs which have been dammed up to a high degree.
Sigmund Freud

A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist.
Sigmund Freud

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the religion of the country. Nothing can render them popular, but some degree of persecution.
Jonathan Swift

Men are able to trust one another, knowing the exact degree of dishonesty they are entitled to expect.
Stephen Leacock

Men have had every advantage of us in telling their own story. Education has been theirs in so much higher a degree; the pen has been in their hands. I will not allow books to prove anything.
Jane Austen

All anger is not sinful, because some degree of it, and on some occasions, is inevitable. But it becomes sinful and contradicts the rule of Scripture when it is conceived upon slight and inadequate provocation, and when it continues long.
Wilson Mizner

All men having power ought to be distrusted to a certain degree.
James Madison

Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say this we know.
T. S. Eliot

Atheism shows strength of mind, but only to a certain degree.
Blaise Pascal

To some degree it matters who's in office, but it matters more how much pressure they're under from the public.
Noam Chomsky

Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe