Is there any reason why the American people should be taxed to guarantee the debts of banks, any more than they should be taxed to guarantee the debts of other institutions, including merchants, the industries, and the mills of the country?

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

Arizona presents no specific reason for excepting capital defendants from the constitutional protections extended to defendants generally, and none is readily apparent.

But reason has no power against feeling, and feeling older than history is no light matter.

Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.

The most beautiful things are those that madness prompts and reason writes.

In the past I have never thought about loneliness when working, and I don't think about it now. Yet there must be a reason for the fact that so many people talk about it.

We got involved in the Rwanda peace process for the simple reason that there was a decision which was taken by the Security Council, because the troops were in Uganda, and we decided to have a military presence.

The show originally started out as a ten hour mini-series. We shot two hours and then were excused for a while, for no apparent reason. Things went very quiet for a time and then a few months later we were called back and told that it was going to be a full season.

Once blood is shed in a national quarrel reason and right are swept aside by the rage of angry men.

People seem to forget that one reason they are now thinking differently is Freud's legacy itself.

No scoundrel is so stupid as to not find a reason for his vile conduct.

I had no concerns - I had no reason to have concerns based on what was available to me about North's contacts with the private sector people, but I didn't think a CIA person should do it.

Getting even is one reason for writing.

I'll not listen to reason... reason always means what someone else has got to say.