Famous+Quotations

"Quotations make you sound cool"~Bryan Fabert __ BANKS __ : A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it back the minute it begins to rain. ** Mark Twain ** I believe that banking institutions are more dangerous to our liberties than standing armies. …The issuing power should be taken from the banks and restored to the people, to whom it properly belongs. ** Thomas Jefferson ** __ BUSINESS: __ Failure is only the opportunity to begin again more intelligently. Henry Ford __CHANGE:__ Just because everything is different doesn't mean that anything has changed. Irene Peter __ EDUCATION __ : Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. ** H. G. Wells ** __ GOVERNMENT __ : For years governments have been promising more than they can deliver, and delivering more than they can afford.  **Paul Martin** For every action there is an equal and opposite government program. ** Bob Wells ** The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government.  **Thomas Jefferson** Let us never negotiate out of fear, but let us never fear to negotiate. **John F. Kennedy** If a free society cannot help the many who are poor, it cannot save the few who are rich. **John F. Kennedy** Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. **Dr. Martin Luther King Jr** __ LAW: __ The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong. ** Cicero ** __ TAXES: __ The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax. ** Albert Einstein ** __ WAR __ : I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones. ** Albert Einstein ** War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. ** Jimmy Carter ** Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. **Abraham Lincoln** An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. **Winston Churchill** Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies in the final sense a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. **Dwight D Eisenhower** War is a cowardly escape from the problems of peace. ** Thomas Mann (1875 - 1955)** __PRO-WAR__: The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his. **General George Patton** You can get more with a kind word and a gun than you can with a kind word alone. **Al Capone** Opportunities multiply as they are seized. **Sun Tzu** Sometimes it is not enough to do our best; we must do what is required. **Sir Winston Churchill** The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready. **Henry David Thoreau** If you are going through hell, keep going. **Sir Winston Churchill** __ANTI-WAR:__ The difference between ‘involvement’ and ‘commitment’ is like an eggs-and-ham breakfast: the chicken was ‘involved’ – the pig was ‘committed’. **Unknown** In any contest between power and patience, bet on patience. **W. B. Prescott** I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work; I want to achieve immortality through not dying. **Woody Allen** Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake. **Napoleon Bonaparte** We are not retreating – we are advancing in another direction. **General Douglas MacArthur** A pint of sweat saves a gallon of blood. **General George S. Patton** Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame. **Benjamin Franklin** It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog. **Mark Twain** __ANTI-CIVILIZATION__: Men have become the tools of their tools. **Henry David Thoreau** I think it would be a good idea. **Mahatma Gandi, when asked what he thought of Western Civilization** __POLITICS__: In America, anybody can be president. That’s one of the risks you take. **Adlai Stevenson** The President has kept all of the promises he intended to keep. **George Stephanopolous, Clinton aide** Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws. **Plato** A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. **Sir Winston Churchill** Democracy is being allowed to vote for the candidate you dislike least. **Robert Byrne** We’d all like to vote for the best man but he’s never a candidate. **Kin Hubbard** Politics is the art of choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable. **John Galbraith** __PRINCIPLES:__ A people that values its privileges about its principles soon losses both. **Dwight D. Eisenhower** __PRACTICALITY__: A friendship founded on business is better than a business founded on friendship. **John D. Rockefeller** It is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring. **Carl Sagan** Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure about the former. **Albert Einstein** __ANTI-QUOTATIONS:__ A witty saying proves nothing. **Voltaire** Well done is better than well said. **Benjamin Franklin** __INSPIRE TO IMPROVE THE WORLD:__ Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. **H. G. Wells** In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends. **Martin Luther King Jr.** Whether you think that you can, or that you can’t, you are usually right. **Henry Ford** I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. **Thomas Edison** The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. **Albert Einstein** There are people in the world so hungry, that God cannot appear to them except in the form of bread. **Mahatma Gandhi** There is no sincerer love than the love of food. **George Bernard Shaw** It has become appallingly obvious that our technology has exceeded our humanity. **Albert Einstein** Never mistake motion for action. **Ernest Hemingway** Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes. **Oscar Wilde** Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell. **Edward Abbey** Nature provides a free lunch, but only if we control our appetites. **William Ruckelshaus** The laws of man may bind him in chains of may put him to death, but they never can make him wise, virtuous, or happy. **John Quincy Adams** __PATRIOTISM:__ A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government. **Edward Abbey** Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it. **Albert Einstein** None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free. **Johann Wolfgang von Goethe** To oppose corruption in government is the highest obligation of patriotism. **G. Edward Griffin** Courage without conscience is a wild beast. **Robert G. Ingersoll** God forbid we should ever be twenty years without such a rebellion. **Thomas Jefferson** He who passively accepts evil is as much involved in it as he who helps to perpetuate it. **Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.** __LIBERTY____:__ It is bad to be oppressed by a minority, but it is worse to be oppressed by a majority. **Lord Acton** It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in the people’s minds. **Samuel Adams** The man who has no imagination has no wings. **Mohammed Ali** __CIVIL RIGHTS:__ When I sell liquor, it’s called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it’s called hospitality. **Al Capone** America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense, it is the other way around. Human rights invented America. **Jimmy Carter** If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don’t believe in it al all. **Noam Chomsky** The price of greatness is responsibility. **Sir Winston Churchill** A right is not what someone gives you; it’s what no one can take from you. **Ramsey Clark** Of all the tasks of government, the most basic is to protect its citizens from violence. **John Foster Dulles** __RANDOM:__ Man is not free unless government is limited….As government expands, liberty contracts. **Ronald Reagan** History teaches that wars begin when governments believe the price of aggression is cheap. **Ronald Reagan** If we are wise, let us prepare for the worst. **George Washington** Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action. **George Washington** How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn’t make it a leg. **Abraham Lincoln** Nearly all men can withstand adversity; if you want to test a man’s character, give him power. **Abraham Lincoln** The philosophy of the classroom today will be the philosophy of the government tomorrow. **Abraham Lincoln** The Bible is not my Book and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long complicated statements of Christian dogma. **Abraham Lincoln** It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues. **Abraham Lincoln** Military glory – the attractive rainbow that rises in showers of blood. **Abraham Lincoln** It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt. **Abraham Lincoln**
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