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All Quotes Collection
"The right honourable gentleman caught the Whigs bathing, and walked away with their clothes. He has left them in the full enjoyment of their liberal positions, and he is himself a strict conservative of their garments."
57
"The curse of me and my nation is that we always think things can be bettered by immediate action of some sort, any sort rather than no sort."
44
"The eternal silence of these infinite spaces frightens me."
16
"It is not possible for civilization to flow backwards while there is youth in the world. Youth may be headstrong, but it will advance it allotted length."
37
"There is no easy walk to freedom anywhere, and many of us will have to pass through the valley of the shadow of death again and again before we reach the mountaintop of our desires."
244
"They say President Wilson has blundered. Perhaps he has, but I notice he usually blunders forward."
54
"Always fall in with what you're asked to accept. Take what is given, and make it over your way. My aim in life has always been to hold my own with whatever's going. Not against: with."
Life,
13
"In the Soviet Union, capitalism triumphed over communism. In this country, capitalism triumphed over democracy."
42
"The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness."
17
"Beauty is unbearable, drives us to despair, offering us for a minute the glimpse of an eternity that we should like to stretch out over the whole of time."
158
"When we hang the capitalists they will sell us the rope we use."
52
"Disobedience is the true foundation of liberty. The obedient must be slaves."
10
"The starting point of all achievement is desire."
99
"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare."
22
"George Washington, as a boy, was ignorant of the commonest accomplishments of youth. He could not even lie."
57
"There is no odor so bad as that which arises from goodness tainted."
13
"It is natural for the mind to believe and for the will to love; so that, for want of true objects, they must attach themselves to false."
15
"Government always finds a need for whatever money it gets."
57
"One of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today."
47
"There is but one stage for the peasant and the actor."
13
"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."
27
"Let us not be too particular; it is better to have old secondhand diamonds than none at all."
23
"Time heals griefs and quarrels, for we change and are no longer the same persons. Neither the offender nor the offended are any more themselves."
40
"I seek constantly to improve my manners and graces, for they are the sugar to which all are attracted."
61
"Lets have faith that right makes might; and in that faith let us, to the end, dare to do our duty as we understand it."
19
"Habit is a second nature that destroys the first. But what is nature? Why is habit not natural? I am very much afraid that nature itself is only a first habit, just as habit is a second nature."
17
"For changes to be of any true value, they've got to be lasting and consistent."
50
"You can't wait for inspiration. You have to go after it with a club."
21
"After a certain point, money is meaningless. It ceases to be the goal. The game is what counts."
43
"The government is us; we are the government, you and I."
59
"There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics."
145
"If we could first know where we are, and whither we are tending, we could then better judge what to do, and how to do it."
20
"That service is the noblest which is rendered for its own sake."
15
"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."
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