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The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
Men willingly believe what they wish.
When the swords flash, let no idea of love, piety, or even the face of your fathers move you. If they oppose, let the blood of your own fathers flow from your blade.
If someone says "can't," that shows you what to do.
The union, next to our liberty, most dear.
God foreordained, for His own glory and the display of His attributes of mercy and justice, a part of the human race, without any merit of their own, to eternal salvation, and another part, in just punishment of their sin, to eternal damnation.
When you give food to the poor, they call you a saint. When you ask why the poor have no food, they call you a communist.
History does not always repeat itself. Sometimes it just yells "Can't you remember anything I told you?" and lets fly with a club.
Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow; Don't walk behind me, I may not lead; Walk beside me, and just be my friend.
Don't wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day.
Integrity has no need of rules.
Politics and the fate of mankind are formed by men without ideals and without greatness. Those who have greatness within them do not go in for politics.
What is a rebel? A man who says no.
All modern revolutions have ended in a reinforcement of the State.
We cannot assert the innocence of anyone, whereas we can state with certainty the guilt of all.
If there is a sin against life, it consists perhaps not so much in despairing of life as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this life.
I don't even know what street Canada is on.
The people want to be deceived, let them be deceived.
Among my most prized possessions are the words that I have never spoken.
Make yourself an honest man and then you may be sure there is one less rascal in the world.
No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence.
The first duty of man is that of subduing fear. We must get rid of fear; we cannot act at all till then.
If Jesus Christ were to come today, people would not even crufify him. They would ask him to dinner, and hear what he had to say, and make fun of it.
There is a higher law than the law of government. That's the law of conscience.
The Gospel of Wealth advocates leaving free the operation of the laws of accumulation.
The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.
Begin at the beginning and go on till you come to the end. Then stop.
We should live our lives as though Christ were coming this afternoon.
Human rights is the soul of our foreign policy, because human rights is the very soul of our sense of nationhood.
Once you accept the fact that you're not perfect, then you develop some confidence.
When your "there" has become a "here," you will simply obtain another "there" that will again look better than here.
You cannot love or hate something about another person unless it reflects something you love or hate about yourself.
If there be no right of rebellion against a state of things that no savage tribes would endure without resistance, then I am sure that it is better for men to fight and die without than to live in such a state of right as this.
If Noah had been truly wise, he would have swatted those two flies.
I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.
He approaches nearest to the Gods, who knows how to be silent, even though he is in the right.
Suffer women once to arrive at an equality with you, and they will from that moment become your superiors.
In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers.
Nobody roots for Goliath
Christmas is not a date. It is a state of mind.
There is no such thing as defeat in non-violence.
Love, friendship, respect, do not unite people as much as a common hatred of something.
Man is what he believes.
It is easy to take liberty for granted when you have never had it taken from you.
Polished brass will pass among more people than rough gold.
Journalism largely consists in saying "Lord Jones is dead" to people who never knew Lord Jones was alive.
I owe my success to having listened to the very best advice, and then going away and doing the exact opposite.
"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."
The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
The Christian ideal has not been tried and found wanting. It has been found difficult; and left untried.
There is a great deal of difference between the eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.
Democracy means government by the uneducated, while aristocracy means government by the badly educated.
If we don't believe in freedom of expression for people we despise, we don't believe in it at all.
This is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning.
Kites rise highest against the wind--not with it.
This is one of those cases in which the imagination is baffled by the facts.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute conversation with the average voter.
Democracy is the worst form of Government except all those others that have been tried from time to time.
I am ready to meet my Maker. Whether my Maker is prepared for the ordeal of meeting me is another matter.
Man will occassionally stumble over the truth, but most of the time he will pick himself up and continue on.
There is no finer investment for any community than putting milk into babies. Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have.
From Stettin in the Baltic to Trieste in the Adriatic and iron curtain has descended across the Continent.
I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat.
Let us brace ourselves to our duty, and so bear ourselves that, if the British Commonwealth and its Empire lasts for a thousand years, men will still say, "This was their finest hour."
The gratitude of every home in our Island, in our Empire, and indeed thoughout the world, except in the abodes of the guilty, goes out to the British airmen who, undaunted by odds, unwearied in their constant challenge and mortal danger, are turning the tide of world war by their prowess and by their devotion. Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few.
I cannot forecast to you the action of Russia. It is a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations.
Dictators ride to and fro upon tigers which they dare not dismount. And the tigers are getting hungry.
The inherent vice of Capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent vice of Socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
No man is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.
There is nothing so absurd but some philosopher has said it.
Orators are most vehement when their cause is weak.
Virtue is its own reward.
The greater the difficulty, the greater the glory.
There are two kinds of people: the ones who need to be told and the ones who figure it out all by themselves.
I've made up stuff that's turned out to be real, that's the spooky part.
Real generosity is doing something nice for someone who will never find it out.
A right is not what someone gives you; it's what no one can take from you.
Most faults are not in our Constitution, but in ourselves.
If an elderly but distinguished scientist says that something is possible he is almost certainly right, but if he says that it is impossible he is very probably wrong.
An oppressed people are authorized whenever they can to rise and break their fetters.
I had rather be right than be President.
I am sorry for anyone who has not been an anarchist at twenty.
He mocks the people who proposes that the Government shall protect the rich and they in turn shall care for the laboring poor.
Make no laws whatever concerning speech, and speech will be free; so soon as you make a declaration on paper that speech shall be free, you will have a hundred lawyers proving that "freedom does not mean abuse, nor liberty license"; and they will define and define freedom out of existence.
There is nothing wrong with America that cannot be cured by what is right with America.
The Bill of Rights is a born rebel. It reeks with sedition. In every clause it shakes its fist in the face of constituted authority. It is the one guarantee of human freedom to the American people.
To be poor and independent is very nearly an impossibility.
Never believe anything until it has been officially denied.
The fellow who thinks he knows it all is especially annoying to those of us who do.
Cruel persecutions and intolerance are not accidents, but grow out of the very essence of religion, namely, its absolute claims.
If religion cannot restrain evil, it cannot claim effective power for good.
I bring out the worst in my enemies and that's how I get them to defeat themselves.
He who begins by loving Christianity better than the truth, will proceed by loving his own sect or Church better than Christianity, and end by loving himself better than all.
Not one man in a thousand has the strength of mind or the goodness of heart to be an atheist.
To ask advice is in nine cases out of ten to tout for flattery.
Pride makes some men ridiculous but prevents others from becoming so.
Man will wrangle for religion; write for it; fight for it; die for it; anything but--live for it.
He that dies a martyr proves that he was not a knave, but by no means that he was not a fool.
Friendship often ends in love; but love in friendship never.
One must never be in haste to end a day; there are too few of them in a lifetime.
People will accept your ideas much more readily if you tell them Benjamin Franklin said it first.
A free society cherishes non-conformity. It knows that from a non-conformist, from the eccentric, have come many of the great ideas of freedom. Free society must fertilize the soil in which non-conformity and dissent and individualism can grow.
The dead govern the living.
The universe displays no proof of an all-directing mind.
Religion is an illusion of childhood, outgrown under proper education.
Always be nice to those younger than you, because they are the ones who will be writing about you.
All charming people have something to conceal, usually their total dependence on the appreciation of others.
Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self.
The worker is the slave of the capitalist society, the female worker is the slave of that slave.
You shall judge of a man by his foes as well as by his friends.
It's only those who do nothing that make no mistakes, I suppose.
Every age is fed on illusions, lest man should renounce life early and the human race should come to an end.
With newspapers, there is sometimes disorder; without them there is always slavery.
The opera ain't over 'til the fat lady sings.
Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs and the universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the universe is winning.
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Knowledge and freedom go hand in hand.
There is no right to strike against the public safety by anybody, anywhere, any time.
The chief business of the American people is business.
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
To live under the American Constitution is the greatest political privilege that was ever accorded to the human race.
Listening to the 5th symphony of Ralph Vaughan Williams is like staring at a cow for 45 minutes.
If we don't change direction soon, we'll end up where we're going.
A liar freely gives his oath.
Do your duty and leave the rest to the gods.
The worst of all states is the people's state.
To win without risk is to triumph without glory.
Human beings are the only creatures on earth that allow their children to come back home.
A word to the wise ain't necessary, it is the stupid ones who need all the advice.
A person all wrapped up in himself generally makes a pretty small package.
Obstacles are things a person sees when he takes his eyes off his goal.
Square meals often make round people.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
The important thing in life is not the victory but the contest; the essential thing is not to have won but to have fought well.
It's amazing what can be accomplished when no one cares who gets the credit.
It is better to waste one's youth than to do nothing with it at all.
As long as you agree with me, you will always be right.
There should be religion for religion's sake, morality for morality's sake, and art for art's sake.
War is an invention of the human mind. The human mind can invent peace.
People are wrong when they say that opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That's what's wrong with it.
They tell you that you'll lose your mind when you grow older. What they don't tell you is that you won't miss it very much.
Now that it's all over, what did you do yesterday that's worth mentioning?
All true knowledge contradicts common sense.
Never keep up with the Joneses. Drag them down to your level. It's cheaper.
There was no need to do any housework at all. After the first four years the dirt doesn't get any worse.
There are four major dangers to civilization, and the greatest is population.
When you go into court you are putting your fate into the hands of twelve people who weren't smart enough to get out of jury duty.
Assassinate me you may; intimidate me you cannot.
The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime, and the punishment of his guilt.
Good Christian people who wouldn't dream of misbehaving will not catch AIDS.
The test of civilization is the estimate of woman. Among savages she is a slave. In the dark ages of Christianity she is a toy and a sentimental goddess. With increasing moral light, and greater liberty, and more universal justice, she begins to develop as an equal human being.
My advice to a young man seeking deathless fame would be to espouse an unpopular cause and devote his life to it.
Held to be a crime when committed by individuals, homicide is called a virtue when committed by the state.
