Some men can live up to their loftiest ideals without ever going higher than a basement.
Theodore Roosevelt

Order without liberty and liberty without order are equally destructive.
Theodore Roosevelt

The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren't enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.
Ayn Rand

Just as man can't exist without his body, so no rights can exist without the right to translate one's rights into reality, to think, to work and keep the results, which means: the right of property.
Ayn Rand

Without music, life would be a mistake.
Friedrich Nietzsche

Arrogance on the part of the meritorious is even more offensive to us than the arrogance of those without merit: for merit itself is offensive.
Friedrich Nietzsche

It is impossible to suffer without making someone pay for it; every complaint already contains revenge.
Friedrich Nietzsche

You cannot open a book without learning something.
Confucius

Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without.
Confucius

Success depends upon previous preparation, and without such preparation there is sure to be failure.
Confucius

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous.
Confucius

Without feelings of respect, what is there to distinguish men from beasts?
Confucius

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good.
Confucius

I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean.
Socrates

Information technology and business are becoming inextricably interwoven. I don't think anybody can talk meaningfully about one without the talking about the other.
Bill Gates

I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
Bill Gates

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Helen Keller

Once I knew only darkness and stillness... my life was without past or future... but a little word from the fingers of another fell into my hand that clutched at emptiness, and my heart leaped to the rapture of living.
Helen Keller

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.
Helen Keller

Strike against war, for without you no battles can be fought!
Helen Keller