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All Quotes Collection

"When a new source of taxation is found it never means, in practice, that the old source is abandoned. It merely means that the politicians have two ways of milking the taxpayer where they had one before."
53

"No matter how happily a woman may be married, it always pleases her to discover that there is a nice man who wishes that she were not."
12

"Alimony - the ransom that the happy pay to the devil."
30

"Now, we put out a lot of carbon dioxide every year, over 26 billion tons. For each American, it's about 20 tons. For people in poor countries, it's less than one ton. It's an average of about five tons for everyone on the planet. And, somehow, we have to make changes that will bring that down to zero."
51

"It is inaccurate to say that I hate everything. I am strongly in favor of common sense, common honesty, and common decency. This makes me forever ineligible for public office."
52

"There's not a liberal America and a conservative America - there's the United States of America."
79

"But Satan now is wiser than of yore, and tempts by making rich, not making poor."
60

"Where liberty is, there is my country."
58

"Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid."
18

"If you would know the value of money, go and try to borrow some."
18

"How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense, and love the offender, yet detest the offence?"
72

"All government, of course, is against liberty."
12

"I don't oppose all wars. What I am opposed to is a dumb war. What I am opposed to is a rash war."
74

"Fortune is like glass - the brighter the glitter, the more easily broken."
51

"We need earmark reform, and when I'm President, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
22

"Write your injuries in dust, your benefits in marble."
37

"Love is the triumph of imagination over intelligence."
12

"Most people return small favors, acknowledge medium ones and repay greater ones - with ingratitude."
45

"There is one rule for the industrialist and that is: Make the best quality of goods possible at the lowest cost possible, paying the highest wages possible."
27

"Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy."
42

"We cannot continue to rely only on our military in order to achieve the national security objectives that we've set. We've got to have a civilian national security force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded."
14

"An investment in knowledge pays the best interest."
16

"He that waits upon fortune, is never sure of a dinner."
10

"Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them."
17

"Happy the man whose wish and care a few paternal acres bound, content to breathe his native air in his own ground."
26

"Television is not real life. In real life people actually have to leave the coffee shop and go to jobs."
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