Stan Dale
Salvador Dali
Anthony D'Angelo
Rodney Dangerfield
Clarence Darrow
Erasmus Darwin
Francis Darwin
Jefferson Davis
Patti Davis
Clarence Day
Edward de Bono
Eugene Victor Debs
Stephen Decatur
Daniel Defoe
Charles de Gaulle
Thomas Dekker
Josef de Maistre
Demonax
Demosthenes
Daniel Dennett
Rene Descartes
Alexis de Tocqueville
Karl W. Deutsch
Peter de Vries
John Dewey
Philip K. Dick
R. A. Dickson
Diderot
Annie Dillard
Phyllis Diller
Diogenes
Walt Disney
Benjamin Disraeli
Fyodor Dostoyevski
Norman Douglas
William O. Douglas
Frederick Douglass
Arthur Conan Doyle
Peter F. Drucker
William Drummond
John Dryden
Charles Dubois
Jean Dubuffet
Georges Duhamel
Finley Peter Dunne
Will Durant
Wayne Dyer
Bob Dylan
The only way we are ever going to ensure peace on this planet is to adopt the entire world as our family.
As for me, I am against freedom, I am for the blessed Inquisition. Freedom is shit, and that's why all these countries founder, from an excess of liberty.
If you have time to wine and complain about something, then you have the time to do something about it.
My wife and I were happy for 20 years. Then we met.
I do not pretend to know what many ignorant men are sure of.
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.
When I was a boy I was told that anybody could become President. I'm beginning to believe it.
You can only protect your liberties in this world by protecting the other man's freedom. You can only be free if I am free.
There is no such thing as justice, either in or out of court.
Just think of the tragedy of teaching children not to doubt.
He who allows oppression shares the crime.
In science the credit goes to the man who convinces the world, not to the man to whom the idea first occurs.
All we ask is to be let alone.
How do you argue with someone who states that the people who are sleeping on the streets of America "are homeless by choice"?
It is fair to judge people by the rights they will sacrifice most for.
Unhappiness is best defined as the difference between our talents and our expectations.
While there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right.
Our Country! In her intercourse with foreign nations, may she always be in the right; but our country, right or wrong!
I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women.
All men would be tyrants if they could.
When I am right, I get angry. Churchill gets angry when he is wrong. So we were often angry at each other.
The graveyards are full of indispensable men.
How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word.
Were there no women, men might live like gods.
Every nation has the government it deserves.
Probably all laws are useless; for good men do not want laws at all, and bad men are made no better by them.
Nothing is so easy as to deceive one's self; for what we wish, we readily believe.
There is nothing, absolutely nothing, which needs to be more carefully guarded against than that one man should be allowed to become more powerful than the people.
There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.
To be possessed of a vigorous mind is not enough; the prime requisite is rightly to apply it.
I think, therefore I am.
What is there, then, that can be esteemed as true? Perhaps this only, that there is absolutely nothing certain.
If you would be a real thinker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.
The chief cause of human error is to be found in prejudices picked up in childhood.
However energetically society in general may strive to make all citizens equal and alike, the personal pride of individuals will always seek to rise above the common level, and to form somewhere an inequality to their own advantage.
The single greatest power in the world today is the power to change. The most recklessly irresponsible thing we could do in the future would be to go on exactly as we have in the past ten or twenty years. I can imagine no more dangerous policy than the conservatism that exists today.
It is the final proof of God's omnipotence that he need not exist in order to save us.
Who of us is mature enough for offspring before the offspring themselvs arrive? The value of marraige is not that adults produce children but that children produce adults.
We only think when we are confronted with a problem.
Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away.
Love your enemies just in case your friends turn out to be a bunch of bastards.
Take away a Christian's fear of hell and you take away his faith.
A thing is not proved because no one has ever questioned it. Skepticism is the first step toward truth.
Fools have been and always will be the majority of mankind.
How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.
We spend the first twelve months of our children's lives teaching them to walk and talk and the next twelve telling them to sit down and shut up.
The most beautiful thing in the world is freedom of speech.
Love of money is the mother of all evils.
It's kind of fun to do the impossible.
How much easier it is to be critical than correct.
When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt laws are broken.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
An author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.
I am a Conservative to preserve all that is good in our constitution, a Radical to remove all that is bad. I seek to preserve property and to respect order, and I equally decry the appeal to the passions of the many or the prejudices of the few.
To kill someone for committing murder is a punishment incomparably worse than the crime itself. Murder by legal sentence is immeasurably worse than murder by brigands.
Never take a solemn oath. People think you mean it.
Has any man ever attained to inner harmoney by pondering the experience of others? Not since the world began! He must pass through the fire.
Ideas are indeed the most dangerous weapons in the world. Our ideas of freedom are the most powerful political weapons man has ever forged. If we remember that, we will never have much to fear from communism.
The American Government is premised on the theory that if the mind of man is to be free, his ideas, his beliefs, his ideology, his philosophy must be placed beyond the reach of government.
The constitution is not neutral. It was designed to take the government off the backs of people.
If there is no struggle there is no progress.
Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is in an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob, and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.
Give a hungry man a stone and tell him what beautiful houses are made of it; give ice to a freezing man and tell him of its good properties in hot weather; throw a drowning man a dollar, as a mark of your good will; but do not mock the bondman in his misery by giving him a Bible when he cannot read it.
When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
There is nothing so useless as doing efficiently that which should not be done at all.
He who will not reason is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.
The most may err as grossly as the few.
The important thing is this: To be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.
Normal means a lack of imagination, lack of creativity.
I have too much respect for the idea of God to make it repsonsible for such an absurd world.
One of the strangest things about life is that the poor, who need the money the most, are the ones who never have it.
Nothing is often a good thing to do and always a clever thing to say.
Of all the deathbed regrets that I have heard not one of them has been, "I wish I had spent more time at the office."
What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.
