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History See other History Articles Title: Quotes Al Capone quotes: You can do more with a kind word and a gun than with just a kind word. When I sell liquor, it's called bootlegging; when my patrons serve it on Lake Shore Drive, it's called hospitality. Remember to vote early -- and often. Jimmy Carter quotes: The law is not the private property of lawyers, nor is justice the exclusive province of judges and juries. In the final analysis, true justice is not a matter of courts and law books, but of a commitment in each of us to liberty and mutual respect. The decision to attack the entire nation [of Yugoslavia] has been counterproductive, and our destruction of civilian life has now become senseless and excessively brutal. ... The United States' insistence on the use of cluster bombs, designed to kill or maim humans, is condemned almost universally and brings discredit on our nation (as does our refusal to support a ban on land mines). Even for the world's only superpower, the ends don't always justify the means. Chinese Proverb quotes: The beginning of wisdom is to call things by their right names. Outside noisy, inside empty. Laws control the lesser man. Right conduct controls the greater one. Give a man a fish, and he'll eat for a day. Teach him how to fish and he'll eat forever. Sir Winston Churchill quotes: Still, if you will not fight for the right when you can easily win without bloodshed, if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not so costly, you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all the odds against you and only a precarious chance for survival. There may be a worse case. You may have to fight when there is no chance of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves. A fanatic is a person who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery. A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it. This report, by its very length, defends itself against the risk of being read. Everybody is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone says anything back, that is an outrage. The power of the Executive to cast a man into prison without formulating any charge known to the law, and particularly to deny him the judgment of his peers, is in the highest degree odious and is the foundation of all totalitarian government whether Nazi or Communist. The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter. You see these dictators on their pedestals, surrounded by the bayonets of their soldiers and the truncheons of their police. Yet in their hearts there is unspoken – unspeakable! – fear. They are afraid of words and thoughts! Words spoken abroad, thoughts stirring at home, all the more powerful because they are forbidden. These terrify them. A little mouse – a little tiny mouse! – of thought appears in the room, and even the mightiest potentates are thrown into panic. If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. From the days of Sparticus, Weishophf, Karl Marx, Trotski, Belacoon, Rosa Luxenburg, and Ema Goldman, this world conspiracy has been steadily growing. This conspiracy played a definite recognizable role in the tragedy of the French revolution. It has been the mainspring of every subversive movement during the 19th Century. And now at last this band of extraordinary personalities from the underworld of the great cities of Europe and America have gripped the Russian people by the hair of their head and have become the undisputed masters of that enormous empire. I have taken more out of alcohol than alcohol has taken out of me. Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. There are a lot of lies going around... and half of them are true. The greatest lesson in life is to know that even fools are right sometimes. Truth is incontrovertible, ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is. Hillary Clinton quote: I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president. Bill Clinton quotes: It depends on what the meaning of the word 'is' is. When we got organized as a country and we wrote a fairly radical Constitution with a radical Bill of Rights, giving a radical amount of individual freedom to Americans ... And so a lot of people say there's too much personal freedom. When personal freedom's being abused, you have to move to limit it. That's what we did in the announcement I made last weekend on the public housing projects, about how we're going to have weapon sweeps and more things like that to try to make people safer in their communities. Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system. A lot of wonderful people love their country and hate the military. If the personal freedoms guaranteed by the Constitution inhibit the government's ability to govern the people, we should look to limit those guarantees. African-Americans watch the same news at night that ordinary Americans do. We can't be so fixated on our desire to preserve the rights of ordinary Americans... Q.- "If you had it to do over again, would you inhale?" A.- "Sure, if I could... I tried before!" No one wants to get this (Lewinsky) matter behind us more than I do, except maybe all the rest of the American people, Confucius quotes: Real knowledge is to know the extent of ones ignorance. If I am walking with two other men, each of them will serve as my teacher. I will pick out the good points of the one and imitate them, and the bad points of the other and correct them in myself. Tell me and I forget. Show me and I remember. Let me do and I understand. By nature men are pretty much alike; it is learning and practice that set them apart. Davy Crockett quotes: There ain't no ticks like poly-ticks. Bloodsuckers all. I leave this rule for others when I'm dead, Be always sure you're right -- then go ahead. Post Comment Private Reply Ignore Thread
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