To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

The real reason for coming to Montour is my love and respect for football.

Fear cannot be banished, but it can be calm and without panic; it can be mitigated by reason and evaluation.

I just didn't want to get out there anymore; I didn't want to get back into what I call 'the swamp.' And the other reason why is I don't think it's good for the presidency for a former president to be opining about his successor. President Obama's got plenty of critics - and I'm just not gonna be one.

It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do.

There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career.

There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.

Once it becomes impossible for members of Congress to make a career of legislative service, the temptation to bend a vote for whatever reason may yield to the better angels of their nature.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as much, for good reason. We're all a little wiser.

Men live by intervals of reason under the sovereignty of humor and passion.

As reason is a rebel to faith, so passion is a rebel to reason.