top of page
Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax

"When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters."

Standard 
 Customized
"When people contend for their liberty they seldom get anything for their victory, but new masters."

Exlpore more People quotes

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Often people display a curious respect for a man drunk, rather like the respect of simple races for the insane... There is something awe-inspiring in one who has lost all inhibitions."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"The last resort of kings, the cannonball. The last resort of the people, the paving stone."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"There are bad people who would be less dangerous if they were quite devoid of goodness."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Whatever good things people say of us, they tell us nothing new."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"I do not want people to be very agreeable, as it saves me the trouble of liking them a great deal."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"There are only two kinds of people who are really fascinating - people who know absolutely everything, and people who know absolutely nothing."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Stephen King in many respects is a wonderful writer. He has made a contribution. People in the future will be able to pick up Stephen King's books and learn a lot about who we were by reading those books."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones."

Quote_1.png
A.E. Samaan

"Historians are like deaf people who go on answering questions that no one has asked them."

Explore more quotes by Edward F. Halifax

Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax
"Gratitude is one of those things that cannot be bought. It must be born with men, or else all the obligations in the world will not create it."
Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax
"Most men's anger about religion is as if two men should quarrel for a lady they neither of them care for."
Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax
"Those who are of the opinion that money will do everything may reasonably be expected to do everything for money."
Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax
"True merit, like a river, the deeper it is, the less noise it makes."
Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax
"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is very good company by the way."
Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax
"The invisible thing called a Good Name is made up of the breath of numbers that speak well of you."
Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax
"He who leaves nothing to chance will do few things poorly, but he will do few things."
Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax
"The plainer the dress, the greater luster does beauty appear."
Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax
"Men who borrow their opinions can never repay their debts."
Quote_1.png
Edward F. Halifax
"A person may dwell so long upon a thought that it may take him a prisoner."
bottom of page