“I believe that truth is the glue that holds government together, not only our Government but civilization itself. That bond, though strained, is unbroken at home and abroad. In all my public and private acts as your President, I expect to follow my instincts of openness and candor with full confidence that honesty is always the best policy in the end. My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over.” BelieveLongEndsHomeGovernmentTogetherI BelievePresidentHonestyPolicyCivilizationTruth IsFellowsInstinctNightmareOpennessGlueUnbrokenCandor Author:Gerald R. Ford
“My immediate instinct when faced with the questions from The Mail on Sunday ten days ago was to protect my family's privacy and particularly my son in his first term at university, living away from home.” FirstsHomeTermSonProtectTenMy FamilyInstinctUniversityPrivacySundayMy SonMailAway From HomeProtect My Family Author:Cherie Blair
“I suppose there is something in all of us that harks back to the soil. When you come to think of it, what are picnics but outcroppings of instinct? No one really enjoys them or expects to enjoy them, but with the first warm days some prehistoric instinct takes us out into the woods, to fry potatoes over a strangling wood fire or spend the next week getting grass stains out of our clothes. It must be instinct; every atom of intelligence warns us to stay at home near the refrigerator.” ThinkingFirstsHomeNextEnjoyFireWeekClothesInstinctWoodsWarmGrassSoilAtomsPotatoesStainsNext WeekRefrigeratorsStay At HomePicnicsPrehistoricStrangling Book:Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions Source: Tish: The Chronicle of Her Escapades and Excursions
“In nothing was slavery so savage and relentless as in its attempted destruction of the family instincts of the Negro race in America. Individuals, not families; shelters, not homes; herding, not marriages, were the cardinal sins in that system of horrors.” HomeAmericaIndividualSinRaceFamilyHorrorDestructionSlaveryInstinctShelterSavagesRelentlessCardinalsRace In America Author:Fannie Barrier Williams
“What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?” WorldWaySelfHomeNaturalWorstProduceInstinctAffectionSeekingMannersOutcomesSelf RespectPolitenessSuppressionNatural Instinct Author:Humphry Davy