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I have a few tricks and dribbles which I use a lot and when I am playing well, it is natural they become easier. But the tricks I use are ones that will hopefully benefit the team What I do as an individual player is only important if it helps the team to win; that [...]

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. A man is never more truthful than when he acknowledges himself a liar. A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way. A man’s character may be learned from the adjectives which he habitually uses in conversation. [...]

A countryman between two lawyers is like a fish between two cats. A good conscience is a continual Christmas. A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges. A house is not a home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as the body. A learned [...]

A black cat crossing your path signifies that the animal is going somewhere. A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. A hospital bed is a parked taxi with the meter running. A man’s only as old as the woman he feels. A woman is an occasional pleasure [...]

A friend is nothing but a known enemy. Drugs are a waste of time. They destroy your memory and your self-respect and everything that goes along with with your self esteem. I bought a gun and chose drugs instead. I had a really good childhood up until I was nine, then a classic case of [...]

Before printing was discovered, a century was equal to a thousand years. Being is the great explainer. Beware of all enterprises that require a new set of clothes. Books are the treasured wealth of the world and the fit inheritance of generations and nations. Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics [...]

Courage is being scared to death… and saddling up anyway. Get off your butt and join the Marines! Get off your horse and drink your milk. I don’t feel we did wrong in taking this great country away from them. There were great numbers of people who needed new land, and the Indians were selfishly [...]

A coach is someone who can give correction without causing resentment. Ability is a poor man’s wealth. Adversity is the state in which man most easily becomes acquainted with himself, being especially free of admirers then. Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your [...]

A lady’s imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment. A large income is the best recipe for happiness I ever heard of. A mind lively and at ease, can do with seeing nothing, and can see nothing that does not answer. A person who can [...]

A friend is one who has the same enemies as you have. A house divided against itself cannot stand. A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me. All my life I have tried to pluck a thistle and plant a flower wherever the flower would grow [...]

And if I can take part in it by transforming my own consciousness, then someone else’s, I’m happy to do it. As long as one person lives in darkness then it seems to be a responsibility to tell other people. Children are smarter than any of us. Know how I know that? I don’t know [...]

A building has integrity just like a man. And just as seldom. A creative man is motivated by the desire to achieve, not by the desire to beat others. A desire presupposes the possibility of action to achieve it; action presupposes a goal which is worth achieving. Achievement of your happiness is the only moral [...]

A good head and a good heart are always a formidable combination. After climbing a great hill, one only finds that there are many more hills to climb. Communists have always played an active role in the fight by colonial countries for their freedom, because the short-term objects of Communism would always correspond with the [...]

A basketball team is like the five fingers on your hand. If you can get them all together, you have a fist. That’s how I want you to play. Actually, the Kentucky moment was better than winning the two National Championships, because it was the epitome of what I try to get from a team [...]

Being a good actor isn’t easy. Being a man is even harder. I want to be both before I’m done. Being an actor is the loneliest thing in the world. You are all alone with your concentration and imagination, and that’s all you have. But you can’t show some far off idyllic conception of behavior [...]

A man can no more diminish God’s glory by refusing to worship Him than a lunatic can put out the sun by scribbling the word, ‘darkness’ on the walls of his cell. A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by [...]

A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer. A waffle is like a pancake with a syrup trap. All these jokes have been pre-approved as funny by me. An escalator can never break: it can only become stairs. You should never see an Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order sign, just Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for [...]

I could see myself in a relationship with a girl; Olivia Wilde is so sexy she makes me want to strangle a mountain ox with my bare hands. She’s mesmerizing. I didn’t get along with Lindsay Lohan on ‘Confessions Of A Teenage Drama Queen’, but you have to consider that we were 16-year-old girls. I [...]

Doing nothing is very hard to do… you never know when you’re finished. I had to weave and play around with a honey bear, you know, and I could wrestle with him a little bit, but there’s no way you can even wrestle a honey bear, let alone a grizzly bear that’s standing ten feet [...]

Black people can be the most conservative, the most discriminating. Especially among ourselves. It wasn’t white people who said all black men have to wear baggy jeans. But for me to have the opportunity to stand in front of a bunch of executives and present myself, I had to hustle in my own way. I [...]

A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world. A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone’s feelings unintentionally. A little sincerity is a dangerous thing, and a great deal of it is absolutely fatal. A man [...]

We are all a little weird and life’s a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love. You are you. Now, isn’t that pleasant? If things start happening, don’t worry, don’t stew, just go right along [...]

A nickel ain’t worth a dime anymore. All pitchers are liars or crybabies. Always go to other people’s funerals, otherwise they won’t come to yours. Baseball is ninety percent mental and the other half is physical. Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. Even Napoleon had his Watergate. Half the lies [...]

As the poet said, ‘Only God can make a tree,’ probably because it’s so hard to figure out how to get the bark on. Basically my wife was immature. I’d be at home in the bath and she’d come in and sink my boats. Bisexuality immediately doubles your chances for a date on Saturday night. [...]

A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise man knows himself to be a fool. A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age. A peace is of the nature of a conquest; for then both parties nobly are subdued, and neither party loser. Absence from those [...]

A lot of times things get blown out of proportion in a negative light, especially in the NBA, … But there are a lot of players in the NBA who really care about the community and want to use their basketball-playing ability for a good cause. As far as carrying the torch for the years [...]

Achievements on the golf course are not what matters, decency and honesty are what matter. And I don’t cook, either. Not as long as they still deliver pizza. As a kid, I might have been psycho, I guess, but I used to throw golf balls in the trees and try and somehow make par from [...]

A business has to be involving, it has to be fun, and it has to exercise your creative instincts. And obviously, from our own personal point of view, the principal challenge is a personal challenge. And you know, I’ve had great fun turning quite a lot of different industries on their head and making sure [...]

All major religious traditions carry basically the same message, that is love, compassion and forgiveness the important thing is they should be part of our daily lives. Be kind whenever possible. It is always possible. Happiness is not something ready made. It comes from your own actions. I find hope in the darkest of days, [...]

A public-opinion poll is no substitute for thought. Americans are in a cycle of fear which leads to people not wanting to spend and not wanting to make investments, and that leads to more fear. We’ll break out of it. It takes time. Beware of geeks bearing formulas. Chains of habit are too light to [...]

A witty saying proves nothing. All men are born with a nose and ten fingers, but no one was born with a knowledge of God All murderers are punished unless they kill in large numbers and to the sound of trumpets. All styles are good except the tiresome kind. All the reasonings of men are [...]

Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat. Each one of them is Jesus in disguise. Even the rich are hungry [...]

An agent is a person who is sore because an actor gets 90% of what they make. And I agreed with that, and I couldn’t wait to change my name anyway, because I’m not too fond of the name of Reginald. It’s a very kind of ’50s English name. And I talked to my doctor, [...]

A system of morality which is based on relative emotional values is a mere illusion, a thoroughly vulgar conception which has nothing sound in it and nothing true. All men’s souls are immortal, but the souls of the righteous are immortal and divine. An honest man is always a child. As for me, all I [...]

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us. A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds, adored by little statesmen and philosophers and divines. A friend may well be reckoned the masterpiece of nature. A good indignation brings out all one’s powers. A great [...]

A career is wonderful, but you can’t curl up with it on a cold night. A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. An actress is not a machine, but they treat you like a machine. A money machine. Before marriage, a girl has to make love to a man [...]

A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject. A joke is a very serious thing. A lie gets halfway around the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on. A man does what he must – in spite of personal consequences, in spite of obstacles [...]

A man should never neglect his family for business. All cartoon characters and fables must be exaggeration, caricatures. It is the very nature of fantasy and fable. All our dreams can come true, if we have the courage to pursue them. All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have [...]

A school without football is in danger of deteriorating into a medieval study hall. Coaches who can outline plays on a black board are a dime a dozen. The ones who win get inside their player and motivate. Confidence is contagious. So is lack of confidence. Dictionary is the only place that success comes before [...]

A Bill of Rights is what the people are entitled to against every government, and what no just government should refuse, or rest on inference. A coward is much more exposed to quarrels than a man of spirit. A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. [...]

Always turn a negative situation into a positive situation. As athletes, we’re used to reacting quickly. Here, it’s ‘come, stop, come, stop.’ There’s a lot of downtime. That’s the toughest part of the day. Even when I’m old and grey, I won’t be able to play it, but I’ll still love the game. I can [...]

A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life. A rooster crows only when it sees the light. Put him in the dark and he’ll never crow. I have seen the light and I’m crowing. Age is whatever you think it is. [...]

Achievement brings its own anticlimax. All great achievements require time. All men are prepared to accomplish the incredible if their ideals are threatened. Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him. As far as I knew white [...]

A genuine leader is not a searcher for consensus but a molder of consensus. A lie cannot live. A man can’t ride your back unless it’s bent. A man who won’t die for something is not fit to live. A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on [...]

A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble. A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave. A man is but the product of his thoughts what he thinks, he becomes. A man who was completely innocent, [...]

A strong argument for the religion of Christ is this – that offences against Charity are about the only ones which men on their death-beds can be made – not to understand – but to feel – as crime. All religion, my friend, is simply evolved out of fraud, fear, greed, imagination, and poetry. All [...]

A friend is someone who gives you total freedom to be yourself. Actually I don’t remember being born, it must have happened during one of my black outs. Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully developed and open. He considered the senses the ‘windows of the soul.’ [...]

As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands, one for helping yourself, the other for helping others. Everything I learned I learned from the movies. For beautiful eyes, look for the good in others; for beautiful lips, speak only words of kindness; and for poise, walk with the knowledge that you [...]

A typical agent in New York gets 400 query letters a month. Of those, they might ask to read 3-4 manuscripts, and of those, they might ask to represent 1. Above all, a query letter is a sales pitch and it is the single most important page an unpublished writer will ever write. It’s the [...]

All I’m gonna do is just go on and do what I feel. All I’m writing is just what I feel, that’s all. I just keep it almost naked. And probably the words are so bland. Blues is easy to play, but hard to feel. Even Castles made of sand, fall into the sea, eventually. [...]

Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience. Beauty is the greatest seducer of man. Every blessing ignored becomes a curse. Everything that happens once can never happen again. But everything that happens twice will surely happen a third time. If you start by promising what you don’t even have yet, you’ll lose your desire [...]

A people free to choose will always choose peace. A tree’s a tree. How many more do you need to look at? Above all, we must realize that no arsenal, or no weapon in the arsenals of the world, is so formidable as the will and moral courage of free men and women. It is [...]

A hero is someone who understands the responsibility that comes with his freedom. A lot of people can’t stand touring but to me it’s like breathing. I do it because I’m driven to do it. A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and gets to bed at night, and in [...]

A minute of perfection was worth the effort. A moment was the most you could ever expect from perfection. All God does is watch us and kill us when we get boring. We must never, ever be boring. Did perpetual happiness in the Garden of Eden maybe get so boring that eating the apple was [...]

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming. Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much. Although the world is full of suffering, it is also full of the overcoming of it. As selfishness and complaint pervert the mind, so love with its joy clears and [...]

All great movements are popular movements. They are the volcanic eruptions of human passions and emotions, stirred into activity by the ruthless Goddess of Distress or by the torch of the spoken word cast into the midst of the people. All propaganda has to be popular and has to accommodate itself to the comprehension of [...]

A dame that knows the ropes isn’t likely to get tied up. A hard man is good to find. A man can be short and dumpy and getting bald but if he has fire, women will like him. A man has one hundred dollars and you leave him with two dollars, that’s subtraction. A man [...]

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It’s just a cycle. Anyone with a grain of sense would know that if I punched my wife I would rip her head off. It’s all lies. I have never laid a finger [...]

A day without laughter is a day wasted. A man’s true character comes out when he’s drunk. A tramp, a gentleman, a poet, a dreamer, a lonely fellow, always hopeful of romance and adventure. Actors search for rejection. If they don’t get it they reject themselves. All I need to make a comedy is a [...]

Big girls need big diamonds. Everything makes me nervous – except making films. I adore wearing gems, but not because they are mine. You can’t possess radiance, you can only admire it. I am a very committed wife. And I should be committed too – for being married so many times. I don’t pretend to [...]

A slender acquaintance with the world must convince every man that actions, not words, are the true criterion of the attachment of friends. Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness. Associate with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for it is better to be [...]

A bore is a person who opens his mouth and puts his feats in it. A business absolutely devoted to service will have only one worry about profits. They will be embarrassingly large. A business that makes nothing but money is a poor business. A market is never saturated with a good product, but it [...]

A commodity appears at first sight an extremely obvious, trivial thing. But its analysis brings out that it is a very strange thing, abounding in metaphysical subtleties and theological niceties. A specter is haunting Europe – the specter of communism. Anyone who knows anything of history knows that great social changes are impossible without feminine [...]

A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask for it back when it begins to rain. A civilized society is one which tolerates eccentricity to the point of doubtful sanity. A diplomat is a man who always remembers a woman’s birthday but never remembers her age. A [...]

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. A man who is good enough to shed his blood for the country is good enough to be given a square deal afterwards. A thorough knowledge of the [...]

A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality. All we are saying is give peace a chance. All you need is love. And God help Bruce Springsteen when they decide he’s no longer God… They’ll turn on him, and I hope he survives it. As usual, there [...]

A jug fills drop by drop. All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain? An insincere and evil friend is more to be feared than a wild beast; a wild beast may wound your body, but an evil friend will wound your mind. Better than a thousand hollow words, is [...]

All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill. All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don’t know except it looked good. [...]

All successful people men and women are big dreamers. They imagine what their future could be, ideal in every respect, and then they work every day toward their distant vision, that goal or purpose. Communication is a skill that you can learn. It’s like riding a bicycle or typing. If you’re willing to work at [...]

A man can be destroyed but not defeated. A man’s got to take a lot of punishment to write a really funny book. A serious writer is not to be confounded with a solemn writer. A serious writer may be a hawk or a buzzard or even a popinjay, but a solemn writer is always [...]

And I think because of the passion of every English player and every English supporter, and every English journalist for the game, most of the game is played with passion, love for football and instinct, but in football you also have to think. Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing [...]

A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than [...]

A goal properly set is halfway reached. A lot of people quit looking for work as soon as they find a job. Building a better you is the first step to building a better America. Every choice you make has an end result. Every obnoxious act is a cry for help. Expect the best. Prepare [...]

A real decision is measured by the fact that you’ve taken a new action. If there’s no action, you haven’t truly decided. Beliefs have the power to create and the power to destroy. Human beings have the awesome ability to take any experience of their lives and create a meaning that disempowers them or one [...]

A lot of companies have chosen to downsize, and maybe that was the right thing for them. We chose a different path. Our belief was that if we kept putting great products in front of customers, they would continue to open their wallets. A lot of people in our industry haven’t had very diverse experiences. [...]

It is scary to think our minds are unlimited. It takes away all our excuses. - Unknown share: Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

A good compromise, a good piece of legislation, is like a good sentence; or a good piece of music. Everybody can recognize it. They say, ‘Huh. It works. It makes sense.’ After a century of striving, after a year of debate, after a historic vote, health care reform is no longer an unmet promise. It [...]

A Conservative Government is an organized hypocrisy. A consistent soul believes in destiny, a capricious one in chance. A great city, whose image dwells in the memory of man, is the type of some great idea. Rome represents conquest; Faith hovers over the towers of Jerusalem; and Athens embodies the pre-eminent quality of the antique [...]

A hallucination is a fact, not an error; what is erroneous is a judgment based upon it. A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live. A life without adventure is likely to be unsatisfying, but a life [...]

A person must have a certain amount of intelligent ignorance to get anywhere. A problem well stated is a problem half-solved. An inventor fails 999 times, and if he succeeds once, he’s in. He treats his failures simply as practice shots. An inventor is simply a fellow who doesn’t take his education too seriously. Believe [...]

As long as the world shall last there will be wrongs, and if no man objected and no man rebelled, those wrongs would last forever. Calvin Coolidge was the greatest man who ever came out of Plymouth Corner, Vermont. Chase after the truth like all hell and you’ll free yourself, even though you never touch [...]

A superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. Ability will never catch up with the demand for it. An oppressive government is more to be feared than a tiger. And remember, no matter where you go, there you are. Better a diamond with a flaw than a pebble without. By [...]

A good traveler has no fixed plans, and is not intent on arriving. A leader is best when people barely know he exists, when his work is done, his aim fulfilled, they will say: we did it ourselves. A scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. All [...]

A well-spent day brings happy sleep.  All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. Although nature commences with reason and ends in experience it is necessary for us to do the opposite, that is to commence with experience and from this to proceed to investigate the reason. Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing [...]

A man should be upright, not be kept upright. A man’s worth is no greater than his ambitions. A noble man compares and estimates himself by an idea which is higher than himself; and a mean man, by one lower than himself. The one produces aspiration; the other ambition, which is the way in which [...]

A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers. A hero is born among a hundred, a wise man is found among a thousand, but an accomplished one might not be found even among a hundred thousand men. A state arises, as I conceive, out of the needs of mankind; no one is [...]

A constitution is the arrangement of magistracies in a state. A friend to all is a friend to none. A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way in which [...]

Unless there’s a personal transformation, there can be no social transformation. You are not the drop in the ocean, but the ocean in the drop. Believe the doctor’s diagnosis, but not the doctor’s prognosis. 80% of medicines have little impact on us; we spend $100B on angioplasty and it doesn’t extend life by even 1%. As J. Krishnamurti [...]

A big man has no time really to do anything but just sit and be big. A great social success is a pretty girl who plays her cards as carefully as if she were plain. Action is character. Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting [...]

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them. And yet it moves. By denying scientific principles, one may maintain any paradox. Facts which at first seem improbable will, even on scant explanation, drop the cloak which has hidden them and stand forth in naked and simple beauty. [...]

A good objective of leadership is to help those who are doing poorly to do well and to help those who are doing well to do even better. A novel is never anything, but a philosophy put into images. Affirmation without discipline is the beginning of delusion. Asking is the beginning of receiving. Make sure [...]

A clever man commits no minor blunders. A correct answer is like an affectionate kiss. A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of solitude. A man’s manners are a mirror in which he shows his portrait. A noble person attracts noble people, and knows how [...]

A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view. A Constitution should be short and obscure. A leader is a dealer in hope. A man cannot become an atheist merely by wishing it. A man will fight harder for his interests than for his rights. A picture is worth a thousand words. A revolution can [...]

A designer is an emerging synthesis of artist, inventor, mechanic, objective economist and evolutionary strategist. A proverb is much matter distilled into few words. By 2000, politics will simply fade away. We will not see any political parties. Dictators never invent their own opportunities. Don’t fight forces, use them. Either war is obsolete, or men [...]

A belligerent state permits itself every such misdeed, every such act of violence, as would disgrace the individual. A certain degree of neurosis is of inestimable value as a drive, especially to a psychologist. A civilization which leaves so large a number of its participants unsatisfied and drives them into revolt neither has nor deserves [...]

A mind at peace, a mind centered and not focused on harming others, is stronger than any physical force in the universe. Abundance is not something we acquire. It is something we tune into. Anything you really want, you can attain, if you really go after it. Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to [...]

All the rights secured to the citizens under the Constitution are worth nothing, and a mere bubble, except guaranteed to them by an independent and virtuous Judiciary. Americans are not a perfect people, but we are called to a perfect mission. Any man worth his salt will stick up for what he believes right, but [...]

Honest conviction is my courage; the Constitution is my guide. I am sworn to uphold the Constitution as Andy Johnson understands it and interprets it. I feel incompetent to perform duties… which have been so unexpectedly thrown upon me. I hold it the duty of the executive to insist upon frugality in the expenditure, and [...]

Great lives never go out; they go on. I knew that my staying up would not change the election result if I were defeated, while if elected I had a hard day ahead of me. So I thought a night’s rest was best in any event. I pity the man who wants a coat so [...]

A lot of presidential memoirs, they say, are dull and self-serving. I hope mine is interesting and self-serving. American and Israel share a special bond. Our relationship is unique among all nations. Like America, Israel is a strong democracy, a symbol of freedom, and an oasis of liberty, a home to the oppressed and persecuted. [...]

Advertising is the life of trade. Advertising ministers to the spiritual side of trade. It is great power that has been entrusted to your keeping which charges you with the high responsibility of inspiring and ennobling the commercial world. It is all part of the greater work of the regeneration and redemption of mankind. After [...]

I may be president of the United States, but my private life is nobody’s damned business. Men may die, but the fabrics of free institutions remains unshaken. The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to the people who are taxed for it. share: [...]

A people that values its privileges above its principles soon loses both. An atheist is a man who watches a Notre Dame – Southern Methodist University game and doesn’t care who wins. An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows. Ankles are nearly always neat and [...]

A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned how to walk forward. A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people. A reactionary is a somnambulist walking backwards. Are you laboring under [...]

A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties. Frequently the more trifling the subject, the more animated and protracted the discussion. The dangers of a concentration of all power in the general government of a confederacy so [...]

America is never wholly herself unless she is engaged in high moral principle. We as a people have such a purpose today. It is to make kinder the face of the nation and gentler the face of the world. But let me tell you, this gender thing is history. You’re looking at a guy who [...]

A dictatorship would be a heck of a lot easier, there’s no question about it. After the chaos and carnage of September 11th, it is not enough to serve our enemies with legal papers. America is a friend to the people of Iraq. Our demands are directed only at the regime that enslaves them and [...]

A coalition of groups is waging a massive propaganda campaign against the president of the United States. an all-out attack. Their aim is total victory for themselves and total defeat for him. A government big enough to give you everything you want is a government big enough to take from you everything you have. All [...]

A government for the people must depend for its success on the intelligence, the morality, the justice, and the interest of the people themselves. A truly American sentiment recognizes the dignity of labor and the fact that honor lies in honest toil. After an existence of nearly 20 years of almost innocuous desuetude, these laws [...]

A bureaucrat is a Democrat who holds some office that a Republican wants. A leader in the Democratic Party is a boss, in the Republican Party he is a leader. A pessimist is one who makes difficulties of his opportunities and an optimist is one who makes opportunities of his difficulties. A politician is a [...]

A good many things go around in the dark besides Santa Claus. About the time we can make the ends meet, somebody moves the ends. All men are equal before fish. America – a great social and economic experiment, noble in motive and far-reaching in purpose. Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the [...]

A brave man is a man who dares to look the Devil in the face and tell him he is a Devil. A law is not a law without coercion behind it. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. All free governments are managed by the combined wisdom and folly of the [...]

I like the noise of democracy. If you are as happy in entering the White House as I shall feel on returning to Wheatland, you are a happy man indeed. The ballot box is the surest arbiter of disputes among free men. The test of leadership is not to put greatness into humanity, but to [...]

Although… the Chief Magistrate must almost of necessity be chosen by a party and stand pledged to its principles and measures, yet in his official action he should not be the President of a party only, but of the whole people of the United States. Foreign powers do not seem to appreciate the true character [...]

A man has a property in his opinions and the free communication of them. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce, or a tragedy, or perhaps both. A pure democracy is a society consisting of a small number of citizens, who assemble and [...]

A little flattery will support a man through great fatigue. At no period of our political existence had we so much cause to felicitate ourselves at the prosperous and happy condition of our country. By the last returns to the Department of War the militia force of the several States may be estimated at 800,000 [...]

Aggression unopposed becomes a contagious disease. America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense human rights invented America. At the Carter Center we work with victims of oppression, and we give support to human rights heroes. For this generation, ours, life is nuclear survival, liberty is human rights, the pursuit of happiness [...]

A desire to be observed, considered, esteemed, praised, beloved, and admired by his fellows is one of the earliest as well as the keenest dispositions discovered in the heart of man. A government of laws, and not of men. Abuse of words has been the great instrument of sophistry and chicanery, of party, faction, and [...]

All men profess honesty as long as they can. To believe all men honest would be folly. To believe none so is something worse. Always vote for principle, though you may vote alone, and you may cherish the sweetest reflection that your vote is never lost. America does not go abroad in search of monsters [...]

I can never consent to being dictated to. Let it be henceforth proclaimed to the world that man’s conscience was created free; that he is no longer accountable to his fellow man for his religious opinions, being responsible therefore only to his God. Popularity, I have always thought, may aptly be compared to a coquette [...]

A man can take a little bourbon without getting drunk, but if you hold his mouth open and pour in a quart, he’s going to get sick on it. A man without a vote is man without protection. A President’s hardest task is not to do what is right, but to know what is right. [...]

As to the presidency, the two happiest days of my life were those of my entrance upon the office and my surrender of it. Banks properly established and conducted are highly useful to the business of the country, and will doubtless continue to exist in the States so long as they conform to their laws [...]

It is not strange… to mistake change for progress. May God save the country, for it is evident that the people will not. share: Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

A man is not finished when he is defeated. He is finished when he quits. A public man must never forget that he loses his usefulness when he as an individual, rather than his policy, becomes the issue. Always remember that others may hate you but those who hate you don’t win unless you hate [...]

As friends go it is less important to live. Conscience is the authentic voice of God to you. Do not let your bachelor ways crystallize so that you can’t soften them when you come to have a wife and a family of your own. He serves his party best who serves his country best. I [...]

Although a soldier by profession, I have never felt any sort of fondness for war, and I have never advocated it, except as a means of peace. Everyone has his superstitions. One of mine has always been when I started to go anywhere, accomplished. Hold fast to the Bible. To the influence of this Book [...]

America’s present need is not heroics but healing; not nostrums but normalcy; not revolution but restoration. I don’t know much about Americanism, but it’s a damn good word with which to carry an election. I don’t know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that [...]

All the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. I believe and I say it is true Democratic feeling, that all the measures of the Government are directed to the purpose of making the rich richer and the poor poorer. I believe that all [...]

A government is for the benefit of all the people. A system in which we may have an enforced rest from legislation for two years is not bad. Action for which I become responsible, or for which my administration becomes responsible, shall be within the law. Anti-Semitism is a noxious weed that should be cut [...]

Cuba ought to be free and independent, and the government should be turned over to the Cuban people. Expositions are the timekeepers of progress. I am a tariff man, standing on a tariff platform. I have never been in doubt since I was old enough to think intelligently that I would someday be made president. [...]

A conservative is a man who just sits and thinks, mostly sits. A conservative is someone who makes no changes and consults his grandmother when in doubt. A little group of willful men, representing no opinion but their own, have rendered the great government of the United States helpless and contemptible. Absolute identity with one’s [...]

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. It would be judicious to act with magnanimity towards a prostrate foe. share: Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share with Stumblers Tweet about it Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a [...]

A crown is merely a hat that lets the rain in. An educated people can be easily governed. Don’t forget your great guns, which are the most respectable arguments of the rights of kings. Every man has a wild beast within him. It seems to me that man is made to act rather than to [...]

A better world shall emerge based on faith and understanding. A general is just as good or just as bad as the troops under his command make him. Age wrinkles the body. Quitting wrinkles the soul. Always there has been some terrible evil at home or some monstrous foreign power that was going to gobble [...]

A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week. A piece of spaghetti or a military unit can only be led from the front end. A pint of sweat, saves a gallon of blood. Accept the challenges so that you can feel the exhilaration of victory. All very successful [...]

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem [...]

If you must break the law, do it to seize power: in all other cases observe it. It is easier to find men who will volunteer to die, than to find those who are willing to endure pain with patience. Men are nearly always willing to believe what they wish. Veni, vidi, vici.(I came, I [...]

In war there is no second prize for the runner-up. Only one military organization can hold and gain ground in war-a ground army supported by tactical aviation with supply lines guarded by the navy. Wars can be prevented just as surely as they can be provoked, and we who fail to prevent them must share [...]

A child miseducated is a child lost. A man may die, nations may rise and fall, but an idea lives on. A nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people. A nation which has forgotten the quality [...]