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All Quotes Collection
"One of the delights known to age, and beyond the grasp of youth, is that of Not Going."
42
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent, experimentation. It is common sense to take a method and try it, if it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
37
"The downtrodden are the great creators of slang."
58
"The possession of a book becomes a substitute for reading it."
45
"Oh God, there were so many stars you could have used. What was the need to give these people to the fire, that the symbol of their passing might shine above Bethlehem?"
47
"We all need money, but there are degrees of desperation."
39
"The unconscious mind has a habit of asserting itself in the afternoon."
41
"Books in a large university library system: 2,000,000. Books in an average large city library: 10,000. Average number of books in a chain bookstore: 30,000. Books in an average neighborhood branch library: 20,000."
39
"A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual."
40
"Laugh and the world laughs with you, snore and you sleep alone."
50
"Any commander who fails to exceed his authority is not of much use to his subordinates."
33
"Among a people generally corrupt liberty cannot long exist."
21
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
53
"A spirit of innovation is generally the result of a selfish temper and confined views. People will not look forward to posterity, who never look backward to their ancestors."
18
"A disposition to preserve, and an ability to improve, taken together, would be my standard of a statesman."
58
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
14
"A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation."
184
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
71
"It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact."
14
"Magnanimity in politics is not seldom the truest wisdom; and a great empire and little minds go ill together."
58
"Whenever our neighbour's house is on fire, it cannot be amiss for the engines to play a little on our own."
106
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