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All Quotes Collection
"My parents shared not only an improbable love, they shared an abiding faith in the possibilities of this nation. They would give me an African name, Barack, or blessed, believing that in a tolerant America your name is no barrier to success."
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"Belief is a wise wager. Granted that faith cannot be proved, what harm will come to you if you gamble on its truth and it proves false? If you gain, you gain all; if you lose, you lose nothing. Wager, then, without hesitation, that He exists."
45
"I can make a firm pledge, under my plan, no family making less than $250,000 a year will see any form of tax increase. Not your income tax, not your payroll tax, not your capital gains taxes, not any of your taxes."
15
"Speak ill of no man, but speak all the good you know of everybody."
37
"Man never thinks himself happy, but when he enjoys those things which others want or desire."
160
"A good reputation is more valuable than money."
61
"All who think cannot but see there is a sanction like that of religion which binds us in partnership in the serious work of the world."
16
"Just in terms of allocation of time resources, religion is not very efficient. There's a lot more I could be doing on a Sunday morning."
84
"We need to steer clear of this poverty of ambition, where people want to drive fancy cars and wear nice clothes and live in nice apartments but don't want to work hard to accomplish these things. Everyone should try to realize their full potential."
17
"I believe God is managing affairs and that He doesn't need any advice from me. With God in charge, I believe everything will work out for the best in the end. So what is there to worry about."
78
"Every decent man is ashamed of the government he lives under."
15
"The U. S. Constitution doesn't guarantee happiness, only the pursuit of it. You have to catch up with it yourself."
77
"The only really happy folk are married women and single men."
67
"If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality."
Time,
11
"In general, mankind, since the improvement of cookery, eats twice as much as nature requires."
46
"The most dangerous man to any government is the man who is able to think things out... without regard to the prevailing superstitions and taboos. Almost inevitably he comes to the conclusion that the government he lives under is dishonest, insane, intolerable."
15
"What I worry about would be that you essentially have two chambers, the House and the Senate, but you have simply, majoritarian, absolute power on either side. And that's just not what the founders intended."
16
"Let him that would move the world first move himself."
54
"People always fear change. People feared electricity when it was invented, didn't they? People feared coal, they feared gas-powered engines... There will always be ignorance, and ignorance leads to fear. But with time, people will come to accept their silicon masters."
67
"I look upon death to be as necessary to our constitution as sleep. We shall rise refreshed in the morning."
65
"Leisure is the time for doing something useful. This leisure the diligent person will obtain the lazy one never."
60
"Part of the reason that our politics seems so tough right now and facts and science and argument does not seem to be winning the day all the time is because we're hardwired not to always think clearly when we're scared. And the country's scared."
14
"Of Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child."
36
"He that has done you a kindness will be more ready to do you another, than he whom you yourself have obliged."
68
"Eat to please thyself, but dress to please others."
129
"No one in this world has ever lost money by underestimating the intelligence of the great masses of the plain people. Nor has anyone ever lost public office thereby."
14
"Temptation is a woman's weapon and man's excuse."
71
"To Sorrow I bade good-morrow And thought to leave her far away behind But cheerly cheerly She loves me dearly: She is so constant to me and so kind."
40
"The absent are never without fault, nor the present without excuse."
23
"Democracy is also a form of worship. It is the worship of Jackals by Jackasses."
19
"Immorality: the morality of those who are having a better time."
60
"Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage."
53
"I should have no objection to go over the same life from its beginning to the end: requesting only the advantage authors have, of correcting in a second edition the faults of the first."
35
"We can't have special interests sitting shotgun. We gotta have middle class families up in front. We don't mind the Republicans joining us. They can come for the ride, but they gotta sit in back."
14
"If a man could have half of his wishes, he would double his troubles."
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