Alberto Gonzales Quotes

Your criticism may be worse than the conduct you are trying to correct.

If the ongoing probe ends, I will take appropriate measures on anybody, including myself, who are found to be accountable for.

Conspiracy theories are good to look at and you can find yourself Googling things until 3 A.M.!

When someone has an opinion, even if it ends up misquoted, people jump on it.

Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.

There is much said about the wickedness of doing evil that good may come. Alas! there is such a thing as doing good that evil may come.

Life has all of these contradictory feelings and contradictory results. People spend their whole lives struggling to get what they think they want, and even if they get it, they find that it's either not what they wanted, or it comes with so many unwanted consequences. We're always shut off from pure joy.

The science of constructing a commonwealth or renovating it, or reforming it, is...not to be taught a priori...That which in the first instance is prejudicial may be excellent in its remoter operation, and its excellence may rise even from the ill effects it produces in the beginning. The reverse also happens; and very plausible schemes, with very pleasing commencements, have often shameful and lamentable conclusions.

Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.

Pity is like a knife, sometimes, and it may pierce one who employs it more shrewdly than the victim it would save.

What a tragedy is help where it harms what it supports!

The greatest parts, without discretion as observed by an elegant writer, may be fatal to their owner; as Polyphemus, deprived of his eyes, was only the more exposed on account of his enormous strength and stature.

Perhaps even more than elsewhere current notions of what is desirable and practicable are here still of a kind which may well produce the opposite of what they promise.

Your presence is a moral poison that would contaminate the most virtuous

A little neglect may breed great mischief.

A good deed never goes unpunished.

There is no action of man in this life that is not the beginning of so long a chain of consequences as no human providence is high enough to give a man a prospect in the end. And in this chain, there are linked together both pleasing and unpleasing events in such manner as he that will do anything for his pleasure must engage himself to suffer all the pains annexed to it.

To do evil that good may come of it is for bunglers in politics as well as morals.

.. that a rule, which, in speculation, may seem the most advantageous to society, may yet be found, in practice, totally pernicious and destructive.

It may sound trite, but using the weapons of the enemy, no matter how good one's intentions, makes one the enemy.

Reviews are destructive by their very nature.

Manipulations of opinion, insofar as they are inspired by well-defined interests, have limited goals; their effect, however, if they happen to touch upon an issue of authentic concern, is no longer subject to their control and may easily produce consequences they never foresaw or intended.

Beware of spitting against the wind!

I shall be obliged to wander to the right and to the left, that I may investigate and discover the truth.