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A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one. - AUTHOR
Always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself. - AUTHOR
We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine - AUTHOR
A powerful agent is the right word. Whenever we come upon one of those intensely right words in a book or a newspaper the resulting effect is physical as well as spiritual, and electrically prompt. - AUTHOR
A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. - AUTHOR
When good Americans die they go to Paris. - AUTHOR
Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none - AUTHOR
When one has tasted watermelon he knows what the angels eat. - AUTHOR
Men seldom make passes At girls who wear glasses. - AUTHOR
What do we live for if not to make life less difficult for each other? - AUTHOR
A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. - AUTHOR
"From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic an iron curtain has descended across the Continent" AUTHOR
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen
We should be careful to get out of an experience only the wisdom that is in it - and stop there; lest we be like the cat that sits down on a hot stove-lid. She will never sit down on a hot stove-lid again, and that is well; but also she will never sit down on a cold one anymore. - AUTHOR
Peace is at hand - AUTHOR
All art is quite useless. - AUTHOR
Summer makes me drowsy;
Autumn makes me sing;
Winter's pretty lousy;
but I hate Spring - AUTHOR
If you live to be one hundred, you've got it made. Very few people die past that age. - AUTHOR
It takes less time to do a thing right, than it does to explain why you did it wrong. - AUTHOR
Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard. - AUTHOR
Who is John Galt? - AUTHOR
I was with some Vietnamese recently, and some of them were smoking two cigarettes at the same time. That's the kind of customers we need! - AUTHOR
I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity. - AUTHOR
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. - AUTHOR

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence, and then success is sure. - AUTHOR
Of course America had often been discovered before Columbus, but it had always been hushed up. - AUTHOR
Scratch a lover, and find a foe. - AUTHOR
"Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far" - AUTHOR
"The jury system puts a ban upon intelligence and honesty and a premium upon ignorance, stupidity and perjury." - AUTHOR
His wife, Grace, recounted that a young woman sitting next to him at a dinner party confided to him she had bet she could get at least three words of conversation from him. Without looking at her he quietly retorted, "You lose." - AUTHOR
Somoza may be a son of a bitch, but he's our son of a bitch. - AUTHOR
I never did give anybody hell. I just told the truth, and they thought it was hell. - AUTHOR
I'm a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it. - AUTHOR
History may not repeat itself, but it does rhyme a lot - AUTHOR
When the President does it, that means it is not illegal. - AUTHOR
personally think that he did violate the law, that he committed impeachable offenses. But I don't think that he thinks he did. - - - - Refering to former President Richard M Nixon, 1977 - AUTHOR
"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and for deeds left undone." - AUTHOR
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears, and sweat." - AUTHOR
It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances. - AUTHOR
"Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first." - AUTHOR
Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. - AUTHOR
When fate hands us a lemon, let's try to make a lemonade. - AUTHOR
Hitch your wagon to a star. - AUTHOR
Forgive, but never forget. - AUTHOR
"No writing has any real value which is not the expression of genuine thought and feeling" - AUTHOR
An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile - hoping it will eat him last. - AUTHOR
Under democracy one party always devotes its chief energies to trying to prove that the other party is unfit to rule - and both commonly succeed, and are right. - AUTHOR
Yesterday, December 7, 1941 - a date which will live on in infamy - the United States of America was suddenly and deliberately attacked by naval and air forces of the Empire of Japan. - AUTHOR
"When all is said and done, and statesmen discuss the future of the world, the fact remains that people fight these wars." - AUTHOR
These are the times that try men's souls - AUTHOR
Alas, I am dying beyond my means. - AUTHOR
Wit has truth in it; wisecracking is simply calisthenics with words. - AUTHOR
By trying, we can easily learn to endure adversity
-- another man's, I mean.-- - AUTHOR
I have opinions of my own -- strong opinions --but I don't always agree with them. - AUTHOR
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope - AUTHOR

Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace. - AUTHOR
Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. - AUTHOR
Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension. - AUTHOR
The older I grow the more I distrust the familiar doctrine that age brings wisdom. - AUTHOR
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. - AUTHOR
What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing. - AUTHOR
"Slavery is the next worst thing to Hell." - AUTHOR
He that lieth down with Dogs, shall rise up with Fleas - AUTHOR
A leader who does not hesitate before he sends his nation into battle is not fit to be a leader. - AUTHOR
"It can go on and on, or someone must write "The End" to it. I have concluded that only I can do that. And if I can, I must." - AUTHOR
The American continents ... are henceforth not to be considered as subjects for future colonization by any European powers." - AUTHOR
"Laws could be passed to keep the leader of a government from getting too much power" - AUTHOR
"We are right to take alarm at the first experiment upon our liberties." - AUTHOR
Nothing good ever comes of violence. - AUTHOR
The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. - AUTHOR
The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it. - AUTHOR
"I never put off till tomorrow what I can do the day after tomorrow." - AUTHOR
If I can stop one heart from breaking, I shall not live in vain; If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, Or help one fainting robin Into his nest again, I shall not live in vain. - AUTHOR
If we practice and eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth, soon the whole world will be blind and toothless. - AUTHOR
Conscience is a mother-in-law whose visit never ends - AUTHOR
His lack of education is more than compensated for by his keenly developed moral bankruptcy.AUTHOR
"As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it."AUTHOR
"I would rather be right than President" AUTHOR
Eating words has never given me indigestion. AUTHOR
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons. AUTHOR
"He is now rising from affluence to poverty." AUTHOR
"I must have a prodigious quantity of mind; it takes me as much as a week sometimes to make it up." AUTHOR
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to. AUTHOR
"Laughter is the shortest distance between two people." AUTHOR
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions. AUTHOR

The best way to keep children at home is to make the home atmosphere pleasant, and let the air out of their tires.AUTHOR
“Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great.” AUTHOR
Science may have found a cure for most evils, but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings AUTHOR
It is well that war is so terrible. We should grow too fond of it. AUTHOR
Through perserverence many people win success out of what seemed destined to be certain failure. AUTHOR
Genius is one percent inspiration and ninty-nine percent perspiration. AUTHOR
Nothing is as good as it seems beforehand. AUTHOR
A judge is a law student who marks his own examination papers. AUTHOR
Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. AUTHOR
"I'm living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart." AUTHOR
"The man who does not read good books has no advantage over the man who cannot read them." AUTHOR
"The truth is more important than the facts." AUTHOR
"I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him" AUTHOR
There are three things which I consider excellent advice. First, don't smoke to access. Second, don't drink to excess. Third, don't marry to excess AUTHOR
Be respectful to your superiors, if you have any. AUTHOR
A consensus means that everyone agrees to say collectively what no one believes individually"AUTHOR
"In the End, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our friends.AUTHOR
"Good people do not need laws to tell them to act responsibly, while bad people will find a way around the laws."AUTHOR
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.AUTHOR
Common sense is the collection of prejudices acquired by age eighteen. AUTHOR
To be prepared for war is one of the most effective means of preserving peace AUTHOR
Be civil to all, sociable to many, familiar with few, friend to one, enemy to none AUTHOR
Never think that war, no matter how necessary, nor how justified, is not a crime. AUTHOR
It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not deserve them AUTHOR
For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong AUTHOR
Standing in the middle of the road is very dangerous; you get knocked down by traffic from both sides. AUTHOR
Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love. AUTHOR
No man is rich enough to buy back his past. AUTHOR
A lie told often enough becomes the truth. AUTHOR
The smallest minority on earth is the individual. Those who deny individual rights, cannot claim to be defenders of minorities. AUTHOR
I have been thinking that I would make a proposition to my Republican friends... that if they will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them. AUTHOR

Go to Heaven for the climate, Hell for the company. AUTHOR
If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you; that is the principal difference between a dog and a man AUTHOR
"The invariable mark of wisdom is to see the miraculous in the common." AUTHOR
Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. AUTHOR
That woman speaks eight languages and can't say no in any of them. AUTHOR
"A real friend is one who walks in when the rest of the world walks out." AUTHOR
We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. AUTHOR
"Do not call for black power or green power. Call for brain power." AUTHOR
Ninety-nine percent of the failures come from people who have the habit of making excuses. AUTHOR
Loneliness and the feeling of being unwanted is the most terrible poverty. AUTHOR
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. AUTHOR
"...all wars eventually act as boomerangs and the victor suffers as much as the vanquished."AUTHOR
This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can.AUTHOR
"Friendship with oneself is all-important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world."AUTHOR
The reward of a thing well done, is to have done it. AUTHOR
Anger as soon as fed is dead - 'Tis starving makes it fat AUTHOR
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything AUTHOR
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live" AUTHOR
An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. AUTHOR
The reason we are so pleased to find other people's secrets is that it distracts public attention from our own. AUTHOR
"Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. AUTHOR
Do not follow where the path may lead. Go instead where there is no path and leave a trail. - AUTHOR
It is much easier to be critical than to be correct. - AUTHOR
Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. AUTHOR
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater AUTHOR
Justice of right is always to take precedence over might. AUTHOR
In America the President reigns for four years and journalism governs forever and ever AUTHOR
"The Constitution only gives people the right to pursue happiness. You have to catch it yourself." AUTHOR
A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin. AUTHOR
God made the Idiot for practice, and then He made the School Board. AUTHOR
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular. AUTHOR

We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of happiness. AUTHOR
Honesty is the first chapter in the book of wisdom. AUTHOR
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world. AUTHOR
"Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live" AUTHOR
A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. AUTHOR
Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut. AUTHOR
Don't bother just to be better than your contemporaries or predecessors. Try to be better than yourself. AUTHOR
"Man will do many things to get himself loved; he will do all things to get himself envied." AUTHOR
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. AUTHOR
There is nothing wrong with America that the faith, love of freedom, intelligence and energy of her citizens cannot cure. AUTHOR
A celebrity is one who is known to many persons he is glad he doesn't know. AUTHOR
"Toleration and liberty are the foundations of a great republic" AUTHOR
America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. AUTHOR
Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation. It is better be alone than in bad company AUTHOR
A gentleman is one who never hurt's anyone's feelings unintentionally. AUTHOR
A politician is a man who understands government. A statesman is a politician who's been dead for 15 years. AUTHOR
A man who moralizes is usually a hypocrite, and a woman who moralizes is usually plain. AUTHOR
"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." AUTHOR
A modest man, who has much to be modest about (On Clement Atlee) AUTHOR
Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion AUTHOR
A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life. AUTHOR
Every man's life ends the same way. It is only the details of how he lived and how he died that distinguish one man from another AUTHOR
"Imagination is more important than knowledge." AUTHOR
If I am not allowed to laugh in heaven, I don't want to go there. AUTHOR
"Always do right. That will gratify some of the people, and astonish the rest." AUTHOR
If you fear making anyone mad, then you ultimately probe for the lowest common denominator of human achievement. AUTHOR
A majority is always better than the best repartee. AUTHOR
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws. AUTHOR
Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed AUTHOR
Ambition is the last refuge of the failure. AUTHOR

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity. AUTHOR
After four years at the United Nations I sometimes yearn for the peace and tranquillity of a political convention. AUTHOR
If we do not hang together, we shall surely hang separately. AUTHOR
About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. AUTHOR
Every reform movement has a lunatic fringe AUTHOR
"How can the men who have enacted this legislation go home and face their wives and children, when they have decreed starvation for other men's wives and children?" AUTHOR
"Love seems the swiftest, but it is the slowest of all growths. No man or woman really knows what perfect love is until they have been married a quarter of a century." AUTHOR
The worst government is the most moral. One composed of cynics is often very tolerant and humane. But when fanatics are on top there is no limit to oppression. AUTHOR
A politician is a statesman who approaches every question with an open mouth. AUTHOR
Duty, then is the sublimest word in our language. Do your duty in all things. You cannot do more; you should never wish to do less. AUTHOR
If Tyranny and Oppression come to this land, it will be in the guise of fighting a foreign enemy. AUTHOR
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. AUTHOR
Your heaviest artillery will be your will to live. Keep that big gun going. AUTHOR
The mind of a bigot is like the pupil of the eye. The more light you shine on it, the more it will contract. AUTHOR
I hope you leave here and walk out and say, 'What did he say?" AUTHOR
Human kindness has never weakened the stamina or softened the fiber of a free people. A nation does not have to be cruel to be tough. AUTHOR
"Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one." AUTHOR
There is more done with pens than swords AUTHOR
I can believe anything as long as it is incredible. AUTHOR
"If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have." AUTHOR
A typical vice of American politics is the avoidance of saying anything real on real issues. AUTHOR
"The Constitution is the bedrock of all our freedoms; guard and cherish it; keep honor and order in your own house; and the republic will endure." AUTHOR
A word is dead when it is said, some say. I say it just begins to live that day. AUTHOR
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. AUTHOR
I don't care what is written about me so long as it isn't true. AUTHOR
"Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the sunlight. AUTHOR
Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed. AUTHOR
A round man cannot be expected to fit in a square hole right away. He must have time to modify his shape. AUTHOR
Fear of something is at the root of hate for others, and hate within will eventually destroy the hater. AUTHOR
Actions are the seed of fate deeds grow into destiny. AUTHOR
An individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law. AUTHOR

Always be sincere, even if you don't mean it. AUTHOR
A hypocrite is the kind of politician who would cut down a redwood tree, then mount the stump and make a speech for conservation. AUTHOR
An election is coming. Universal peace is declared, and the foxes have a sincere interest in prolonging the lives of the poultry. AUTHOR
A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience. AUTHOR
Attempt the impossible in order to improve your work. AUTHOR
Duty is what one expects from others, it is not what one does oneself. AUTHOR
A book is like a piece of rope; it takes on meaning only in connection with the things it holds together. AUTHOR
Any man who has had the job I've had and didn't have a sense of humor wouldn't still be here. AUTHOR
Truth is the glue that holds government together. AUTHOR
An idealist is a person who helps other people to be prosperous. AUTHOR
Don't get up. And please stop acting as if I were the queen mother! AUTHOR
As for accomplishments, I just did what I had to do as things came along. AUTHOR
Develop success from failures. Discouragement and failure are two of the surest stepping stones to success. AUTHOR
Although the world is full of suffering,it is also full of the overcoming of it. AUTHOR
Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand. AUTHOR
When your friends begin to flatter you on how young you look, it's a sure sign you're getting old. AUTHOR
One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards. AUTHOR
How soon not now becomes never. AUTHOR
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think AUTHOR
A politician is an animal which can sit on a fence and yet keep both ears to the ground. AUTHOR
From behind the Iron Curtain, there are signs that tyranny is in trouble and reminders that its structure is as brittle as its surface is hard. AUTHOR
Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. AUTHOR
An Independent is someone who wants to take the politics out of politics. AUTHOR
A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50, and a fool if he doesn't afterward. AUTHOR
I see - she's the original good time that was had by all. AUTHOR
Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. AUTHOR
Behavior is what a man does, not what he thinks, feels, or believes AUTHOR
A politician needs the ability to foretell what is going to happen tomorrow, next week, next month, and next year. And to have the ability afterwards to explain why it didn't happen AUTHOR
How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. AUTHOR
If there was less sympathy in the world, there would be less trouble in the world. AUTHOR

Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one. AUTHOR
Acting is all about honesty. If you can fake that, you've got it made. AUTHOR
Americans admire a people who can scratch a desert and produce a garden. The Israelis have shown qualities that Americans identify with: guts, patriotism, idealism, a passion for freedom. I have seen it. I know. I believe that. AUTHOR
If something comes to life in others because of you, then you have made an approach to immortality.AUTHOR
I remember when I first came to Washington. For the first six months you wonder how the hell you ever got here. For the next six months you wonder how the hell the rest of them ever got here.AUTHOR
I am different from Washington. I have a higher, grander standard of principle. Washington could not lie. I can lie, but I won't. AUTHOR
Any two philosophers can tell each other all they know in two hours. AUTHOR
A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy? AUTHOR
A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. AUTHOR
A man who has never gone to school may steal from a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad. AUTHOR
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children. AUTHOR
Cowardice... is almost always simply a lack of ability to suspend functioning of the imagination. AUTHOR
I had a lot of experience with people smarter than I am. AUTHOR
Whenever cannibals are on the brink of starvation, Heaven, in its infinite mercy, sends them a fat missionary. AUTHOR
Adam and Eve had many advantages but the principal one was that they escaped teething. AUTHOR
There ought to be limits to freedom.AUTHOR
Ability hits the mark where presumption overshoots and diffidence falls short. AUTHOR
Pennies do not come from heaven. They have to be earned here on earth. AUTHOR
History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives. AUTHOR
I had faith in Israel before it was established, I have in it now. I believe it has a glorious future before it - not just another sovereign nation, but as an embodiment of the great ideals of our civilization. AUTHOR
I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place. AUTHOR
War settles nothing.AUTHOR
What loneliness is more lonely than distrust? AUTHOR
For a war to be just three conditions are necessary - public authority, just cause, right motive.AUTHOR
All of us who are concerned for peace and triumph of reason and justice must be keenly aware how small an influence reason and honest good will exert upon events in the political field. AUTHOR
Diplomacy (is) the art of restraining power. AUTHOR
A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. AUTHOR
Asking "who ought to be the boss" is like asking "who ought to be the tenor in the quartet?" Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. AUTHOR
An expert is a man who has stopped thinking - he knows AUTHOR
It is a paradox that every dictator has climbed to power on the ladder of free speech. Immediately on attaining power each dictator has suppressed all free speech except his own. AUTHOR
Europe was created by history. America was created by philosophy AUTHOR