Nothing can be more abhorrent to democracy than to imprison a person or keep him in prison because he is unpopular. This is really the test of civilization.
Winston Churchill

Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
Abraham Lincoln

Every formula of every religion has in this age of reason, to submit to the acid test of reason and universal assent.
Mohandas Gandhi

I didn't fail the test, I just found 100 ways to do it wrong.
Benjamin Franklin

All of us have moments in out lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.
Erma Bombeck

The perception of beauty is a moral test.
Henry David Thoreau

It is a fine thing to have ability, but the ability to discover ability in others is the true test.
Lou Holtz

The test of success is not what you do when you are on top. Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.
George S. Patton

Landscape photography is the supreme test of the photographer - and often the supreme disappointment.
Ansel Adams

There is something in the unselfish and self-sacrificing love of a brute, which goes directly to the heart of him who has had frequent occasion to test the paltry friendship and gossamer fidelity of mere Man.
Edgar Allan Poe

There are few cases in which mere popularity should be considered a proper test of merit; but the case of song-writing is, I think, one of the few.
Edgar Allan Poe

I have only one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem - and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?
Dwight D. Eisenhower

The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
Franklin D. Roosevelt

MAC gave me 55 lipsticks to test. These are the same lipsticks I got caught stealing by the police when I was 15. How ironic.
Eddie Izzard

The universe is an intelligence test.
Timothy Leary

Anyway, no drug, not even alcohol, causes the fundamental ills of society. If we're looking for the source of our troubles, we shouldn't test people for drugs, we should test them for stupidity, ignorance, greed and love of power.
P. J. O'Rourke

The only relevant test of the validity of a hypothesis is comparison of prediction with experience.
Milton Friedman

Test fast, fail fast, adjust fast.
Tom Peters

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw