"A billion here, a couple of billion there ― first thing you know it adds up to real money."
― Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896 to 1969)
"A Child Miseducated Is a Child Lost."
― John Fitzgerald 'Jack' Kennedy (1917 to 1963)
"A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881), 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"A conservative is a man who believes that nothing should be done for the first time."
― Alfred E. Wiggam
"A conservative is a man who is too cowardly to fight and too fat to run.
― Elbert Green Hubbard (1856 to 1915)
"A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who has never learned to walk."
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 to 1945)
"A debt to Virgil is a debt to Nature."
― Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 to 1936)
"A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"A fanatic is one who won't change his mind and won't change the subject."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"A government of the people, by the people, and for the people shall not perish from the earth."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"A house divided against itself cannot stand."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"A joke's a very serious thing."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"A lie is terminological inexactitude."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"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."
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 to 1945)
"A man younger than 30 who's not a liberal has no heart and a man older than 30 who's not a conservative has no brain."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"A political party is organized opinion."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"A proper perspective about one's history is vital."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"A wise government knows how to enforce with temper, or to conciliate with dignity."
― George Grenville (1712 to 1770), British Prime Minister
"A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience, and many have been precipitated by reckless haste."
― Adlai Ewing Stevenson II (1900 to 1965)
"About the time we think we can make ends meet, somebody moves the ends."
― Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 to 1964)
"Above all, we are coming to understand that the arts incarnate the creativity of a free people. When the creative impulse cannot flourish, when it cannot freely select its methods and objects, when it is deprived of spontaneity, then society severs the root of art."
― John Fitzgerald 'Jack' Kennedy (1917 to 1963)
"All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter."
― Edmund Burke
"All Marxists, basically, are reactionaries, yearning for the Oriental despotisms of pre-Hellenic times, the neolithic culture that preceded the rise of self-consciousness and egoism."
― Robert Anton Wilson, writing as Justin Case
"Allow the President to invade a neighboring nation whenever he shall deem it necessary to repel an invasion, and you allow him to do so whenever he may choose to say he deems it necessary for such purpose - and you allow him to make war at pleasure . . . The provision of the Constitution giving the war-making power to Congress, was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always been involving and impoverishing their people in wars, pretending generally, if not always, that the good of the people was the object. This, our Convention understood to be the most oppressive of all Kingly oppressions; and they resolved to frame the Constitution so that no one man should hold the power of bringing this oppression upon us. But your view destroys the whole matter, and places our President where kings have always stood."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865), while serving in Congress
"Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"Am I not destroying my enemies when I make friends of them?"
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up and shake off the existing government and form a new one. This is a most valuable and sacred right ― a right which we hope and believe is to liberate the world."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"Anyone who knows history, particularly the history of Europe, will, I think, recognize that the domination of education or of government by any one particular religious faith is never a happy arrangement for the people."
― Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 to 1962)
"As Clerk of the Privy Council, a particular concern of mine revolves around the governance challenge embodied in the dichotomy between fast and slow. Our era of accelerated change has been compared to a 100-meter dash that is run over and over and over again. There are times when the speed of the public interest must be more deliberative — slower in real time — than private sector deliberations. There are usually more interests at stake in public sector issues, more people to be brought along and a more subtle, or at least different, calculation than the private sector's bottom line. Decisions are typically hard to reverse and there is intense pressure to get it right the first time. Governance in a democracy takes time — even if you don't stop to recount the chads. But there are instances when it cannot be otherwise and still remain a democracy."
― Melvin Samuel "Mel" Cappe (born 1948), Clerk of the Privy Council
"As I would not be a slave, neither would I be a master. This expresses my idea of democracy."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Indiana: It has been found that a circular area is to the square on a line equal to the quadrant of the circumference, as the area of an equilateral rectangle is to the square on one side."
― House Bill No. 246 of the Indiana State Legislature, 1897
"Censorship, like charity, should begin at home; but, unlike charity, it should end there."
― Clare Booth Luce (1903 to 1983)
"Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or present are certain to miss the future."
― President John Fitzgerald 'Jack' Kennedy (1917 to 1963)
"Children Are Our Most Valuable National Resource."
― Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 to 1964)
"Every woman should marry ― and no man."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory or defeat."
― Theodore Roosevelt (1858 to 1919)
"Finality is not the language of politics."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"Forgotten men at the bottom of the economic pyramid"
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 to 1945)
"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."
― Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 to 1962)
"How many legs does a dog have if you call the tail a leg? Four. Calling a tail a leg doesn't make it a leg."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the great ordeal of meeting me is another matter."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"I confidently trust that the American people will prove themselves . . . too wise not to detect the false pride or the dangerous ambitions or the selfish schemes which so often hide themselves under that deceptive cry of mock patriotism: 'Our country, right or wrong!' They will not fail to recognize that our dignity, our free institutions and the peace and welfare of this and coming generations of Americans will be secure only as we cling to the watchword of true patriotism: 'Our country—when right to be kept right; when wrong to be put right'."
― Senator Carl Schurz, The Policy of Imperialism, Speeches, Correspondence and Political Papers of Carl Schurz, where Schurz expanded on this theme in a speech delivered at the Anti-Imperialistic Conference, Chicago, Illinois, October 17, 1899
"I like a man who grins when he fights."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"I must Follow the People. Am I Not Their Leader?"
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"I never had much faith in leaders. I am willing to be charged with almost anything, rather than to be charged with being a leader. I am suspicious of leaders, and especially of the intellectual variety. Give me the rank and file every day in the week. If you go to the city of Washington, and you examine the pages of the Congressional Directory, you will find that almost all of those corporation lawyers and cowardly politicians, members of Congress, and misrepresentatives of the masses - you will find that almost all of them claim, in glowing terms, that they have risen from the ranks to places of eminence and distinction. I am very glad I cannot make that claim for myself. I would be ashamed to admit that I had risen from the ranks. When I rise it will be with the ranks, and not from the ranks."
― Eugene Debs
"I repeat, that all power is a trust, that we are accountable for its exercise, and that, from the people, and for the people, all springs, and all must exist."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865), Nov. 21, 1864 (Letter to Col. William F. Elkins)
"I wouldn't say voters are stupid. But the same voter who wants unlimited services also does not want to pay for it. There's a disconnect."
― Phil Talmadge, former Washington Supreme Court judge and legislator.
"If by a 'Liberal' they mean someone who looks ahead and not behind, someone who welcomes new ideas without rigid reactions, someone who cares about the welfare of the people ― their health, their housing, their schools, their jobs, their civil rights, and their civil liberties ― someone who believes we can break through the stalemate and suspicions that grip us in our policies abroad, if that is what you mean by a 'Liberal', then I'm proud to say I'm a 'Liberal'."
― John Fitzgerald 'Jack' Kennedy (1917 to 1963)
"If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitiable."
― John Fitzgerald 'Jack' Kennedy (1917 to 1963)
"If you go on with this nuclear arms race, all you are going to do is make the rubble bounce."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"If you're not very clever you should be conciliatory."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"In defeat, unbeatable; in victory, unbearable."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965), of Montgomery
"In politics, nothing is contemptible."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all those other forms that have been tried from time to time."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"It is common sense to take a method and try it. If it fails, admit it frankly and try another. But above all, try something."
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 to 1945)
"It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember."
― Eugene Joseph "Gene" McCarthy (1916 to 2005)
"It is much easier to be critical than to be correct."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"It is no longer a single historical world ― as it has been from the beginning of the nineteenth century onwards. Nor is it any longer ours. We, in our culture of commodities, are living our crisis; the rest of the world are living theirs. Our crisis is that we no longer believe in a future. Their crisis is us. The most we want is to hang on to what we've got. They want the means to live. That is why our principal preoccupations have become private and our public discourse is compounded of spite. The historical and cultural space for public speech, for public hopes and action, has been dismantled. We live and have our being today in private coverts."
― John Berger
"It is not enough that the forms of government should have the passive or 'implied' consent of the governed, but that the Society will be in health only if it is in the full sense democratic and self-governing, which implies not only that all the citizen should have a 'right' to influence its policy if they so desire, but that the greatest possible opportunity should be afforded for every citizen actually to exercise this right."
― G. D. H. Cole
"It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself."
― Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 to 1962)
"It is not from the benevolence of the butcher, the brewer, or the baker, that we expect our dinner, but from their regard to their own interest. We address ourselves, not to their humanity, but to their self-love, and never talk to them of our own necessities but of their advantages."
― Adam Smith (1723 to 1790)
"It is only under the shelter of the civil magistrate that the owner of valuable property . . . can sleep a single night in security."
― Adam Smith (1723 to 1790)
"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: 'And this, too, shall pass away.' ― How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride! How consoling in the depths of affliction!"
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"It isn't enough to talk about peace. One must believe in it. And it isn't enough to believe in it. One must work at it.''
― Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 to 1962)
"It will never be possible for any length of time for any group of the American people, either by reason of wealth or learning or inheritance or economic power, to retain any mandate, any permanent authority to arrogate to itself the political control of American public life."
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 to 1945), Address, June, 1936
"It would be desirable if every Government, when it comes to power, should have its old speeches burnt."
― Viscount Snowden
"It's a billion here and a billion there; the first thing you know it adds up to real money."
― Senator Everett McKinley Dirksen (1896 to 1969)
"Justice Is Truth in Action."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"Labor is prior to, and independent of, capital. Capital is only the fruit of labor, and could never have existed if labor had not first existed. Labor is the superior of capital, and deserves much the higher consideration."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865), speech (1861)
"MacDonald has the gift of compressing the largest amount of words into the smallest amount of thoughts."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on . . . ."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed, it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing had happened."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"Mercy to the guilty is cruelty to the innocent."
― Adam Smith (1723 to 1790)
"My country, right or wrong is a thing that no patriot would think of saying except in a desperate case. It is like saying My mother, drunk or sober."
― Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 to 1936)
"Nearly all men can withstand adversity; If you want to test a man's character, give him power."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom: it is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves."
― William Pitt, "The Younger", British Prime Minister
"No man is good enough to govern another man without that other's consent."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865), Lincoln-Douglas debate
"No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency."
― Theodore Roosevelt (1858 to 1919), 1900
"No Man Can Be a Patriot on an Empty Stomach."
― William Cowper
"No one can make you feel inferior without your consent."
― Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 to 1962)
"No political party has exclusive patent rights on prosperity."
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 to 1945)
"No Public Man Can Be Just a Little Crooked."
― Herbert Clark Hoover (1874 to 1964)
"Nobody but a beggar chooses to depend chiefly upon the benevolence of his fellow citizens. supporting markets in the mainstream and on the left as well."
― Adam Smith (1723 to 1790)
"Nothing in the world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent."
― Calvin Coolidge
"Nothing is so admirable in politics as a short memory."
― John Kenneth Galbraith
"Often the experts make the worst possible Ministers in their own fields. In this country we prefer rule by amateurs."
― Clement Richard Attlee, British Prime Minister
"Okay, you've convinced me. Now go out there and bring pressure on me."
― President Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 to 1945), (In response to a business delegation)
"One cannot say that all conservatives are stupid people, one can say that most stupid people are conservative."
― John Stewart Mill
"People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against the public, or in some contrivance to raise prices."
― Adam Smith (1723 to 1790)
"People who have no vices have very few virtues."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"Politics is like football. If you see daylight, go through the hole."
― John Fitzgerald 'Jack' Kennedy (1917 to 1963)
"Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"[Prime Minister Joseph] Chamberlain loves the working man ― he loves to see him work."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"Public opinion in this country is everything."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"[Sir Stafford Cripps] has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"Something unpleasant is coming when men are anxious to tell the truth."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"Spiritual leadership should remain spiritual leadership and the temporal power should not become too important in any church."
― Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 to 1962)
"Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"The ballot is stronger than the bullet."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"The bible is not my book, and Christianity is not my religion. I could never give assent to the long, complicated statements of Christian dogma."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"The country needs and, unless I mistake its temper, the country demands bold, persistent experimentation."
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 to 1945)
"The empires of the future are the empires of the mind."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"The government of an exclusive company of merchants is, perhaps, the worst of all governments for any country whatsoever."
― Adam Smith (1723 to 1790), from The Wealth of Nations
"The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"The legitimate object of a government is to do for a community of people what ever they need to have done, but cannot do at all, or cannot so well do for themselves in their separate and individual capacities."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"The longer the title, the less important the job."
― George McGovern
"The man scarce lives who is not more credulous than he ought to be . . . . The natural disposition is always to believe. It is acquired wisdom and experience only that teach incredulity, and they very seldom teach it enough."
― Adam Smith (1723 to 1790)
"The marvel of all history is the patience with which men and women submit to burdens unnecessarily laid upon them by their governments."
― William H. Borah
"The Price of Greatness Is Responsibility."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously."
― Hubert Humphrey
"The rule which forbids ending a sentence with a preposition is the kind of nonsense up with which I will not put."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"The ultimate failures of dictatorship cost humanity far more than the temporary failures of democracy."
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 to 1945), Address, 1937
"The understandings of the greater part of men are necessarily formed by their ordinary employments . . . the man whose life is spent in performing a few simple operations, of which the effects too are, perhaps, always the same, or very nearly the same, has no occasion to exert his understanding . . . and generally becomes as stupid and ignorant as it is possible for a human creature to be . . . But in every improved and civilized society this is the state into which the laboring poor, that is, the great body of people, must necessarily fall, unless government takes pains to prevent it."
― Adam Smith (1723 to 1790)
"There are a lot of lies going around . . . and half of them are true."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"There are not enough jails, not enough policemen, not enough courts to enforce a law not supported by the people."
― Hubert Humphrey
"There are two kinds of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. Try to be in the first group; there is less competition there."
― Indira Gandhi
"There is no longer a clear, bright line dividing America's domestic concerns and America's foreign policy concerns . . . If we want America to stay on the right track, if we want other people to be on that track and have the chance to enjoy peace and prosperity, we have no choice but to try to lead the train."
― President Bill Clinton
"There Is Nothing I Love as Much as a Good Fight."
― Franklin Delano Roosevelt (1882 to 1945)
"There isn't enough understanding by business of the constraints facing government. What government needs is a kind of real political advice that is based not just on what business wants, but what government can deliver, and what everyone can settle for. Business lobbies generally govern badly. Business still comes to scream if something gores its ox. But there still isn't enough analysis of why government takes a particular stand on policy, and depending on the source of that stand, whether it can be adjusted or not."
― Stanley Hart
"There seem to me to be very few facts, at least ascertainable facts, in politics."
― Sir Robert Peel, British Prime Minister
"They also serve who only stand and wait."
― John Milton
"They who have put out the people's eyes reproach them for their blindness."
― John Milton
"Those of us who believe in the right of any human being to belong to whatever church he sees fit, and to worship God in his own way, cannot be accused of prejudice when we do not want to see public education connected with religious control of the schools, which are paid for by taxpayers' money."
― Anna Eleanor Roosevelt (1884 to 1962)
"Those of you who come in with me now will receive a big piece of the pie. Those of you who delay, and commit yourselves later, will receive a smaller piece of pie. Those of you who don't come in at all will receive ― Good Government!"
― Huey Long
"Those who won our independence believed that the final end of the state was to make men free to develop their faculties . . . They valued liberty both as an end and as a means. They believed liberty to be the secret of happiness and courage to be the secret of liberty . . . that public discussion is a political duty; and that this should be the fundamental principle of the American government."
― Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice
"To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought."
― John Fitzgerald 'Jack' Kennedy (1917 to 1963)
"Watch out for the fellow who talks about putting things in order! Putting things in order always means getting other people under your control."
― Denis Diderot, 1796
"We are engaged in a public relations war against a political elite who have used the events of 9/11 to hijack a country from her people and placed the interests of the rich and the powerful above justice and truth."
― NYCAN (The Turning Point)
"We demand that big business give people a square deal."
― Theodore Roosevelt (1858 to 1919), letter
"We hold the power and bear the responsibility."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"We must become the change we want to see in the world."
― Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, महात्मा [Sanskrit honourific pronounced mahātmā ] Gandhi (1869 to 1948)
"We Shape Our Buildings; Thereafter They Shape Us."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965)
"We succeed in enterprises which demand the positive qualities we possess, but we excel in those which can also make use of our defects."
― Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville (1805 to 1859)
"What does it take for Americans to do great things; to go to the moon, to win wars, to dig canals linking oceans, to build railroads across a continent? In independent thought about this question, Neil Armstrong and I concluded that it takes a coincidence of four conditions, or in Neil's view, the simultaneous peaking of four of the many cycles of American life. First, a base of technology must exist from which to do the thing to be done. Second, a period of national uneasiness about America's place in the scheme of human activities must exist. Third, some catalytic event must occur that focuses the national attention upon the direction to proceed. Finally, an articulate and wise leader must sense these first three conditions and put forth with words and action the great thing to be accomplished. The motivation of young Americans to do what needs to be done flows from such a coincidence of conditions . . . . The Thomas Jeffersons, the Teddy Roosevelts, the John Kennedys appear. We must begin to create the tools of leadership which they, and their young frontiersmen, will require to lead us onward and upward."
― Dr. Harrison H. Schmidt, Sen., New Mexico
"What is patriotism but the love of the good things we ate in our childhood?"
― Lin Yutang
"What little recognition the idea of obligation to the public obtains in modern morality is derived from Greek and Roman sources, not from Christian; as, even in the morality of private life, whatever exists of magnanimity, high-mindeness, personal dignity, even the sense of honor, is derived from the purely human, not the religious part of our education, and never could have grown out of a standard of ethics in which the only worth, professedly recognized, is that of obedience."
― John Stuart Mill, 1806-1873, and Harriet Taylor Mill, ?-1858, "Chapter II: Of the Liberty of Thought and Discussion," On Liberty, 1859; reprinted in Currin V. Shields, ed., On Liberty, Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1956, p. 61.)
"When you have to kill a man it costs nothing to be polite."
― Sir Winston Leonard Spencer-Churchill (1874 to 1965), on formal declarations of war
"You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865), from A.K. McClure's Lincoln's Yarns and Stories
"You can't escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today."
― Abraham Lincoln (1809 to 1865)
"You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty."
― Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, महात्मा [Sanskrit honourific pronounced mahātmā ] Gandhi (1869 to 1948)
"Your job is to work as hard as you can in government, and to work as hard as you can in your ridings for the people you represent, because the time will come when you will not want me to come into your ridings. The time will come when I am so personally unpopular that you won't want help from me . . . .and then at that moment, when I am not able to help, your chances of being re-elected are going to depend entirely on your own efforts."
― David Peterson, Former Ontario Premier
"Youth Is the Trustee of Posterity."
― Benjamin Disraeli, 1st Earl of Beaconsfield (1804 to 1881)
"You've got that eternal idiotic idea that if anarchy came it would come from the poor. Why should it? The poor have been rebels, but they have never been anarchists; they have more interest than any one else in there being some decent government. The poor man really has a stake in the country. The rich man hasn't; he can go away to New Guinea in a yacht. The poor have sometimes been objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all. Aristocrats were always anarchists, as you can see from the barons' wars."
― Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874 to 1936)
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