Zsa Zsa Gabor
John Kenneth Galbraith
Galileo Galilei
Indira Gandhi
Mahatma Gandhi
Ed Gardner
John W. Gardner
Giuseppe Garibaldi
William Lloyd Garrison
Henry George
Jean Paul Getty
Edward Gibbon
Andr� Gide
W. S. Gilbert
Vince Gill
Dobie Gillis
George Gissing
Ellen Glasgow
Arnold H. Glasow
William Godwin
Paul Joseph Goebbels
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Emma Goldman
Barry Goldwater
H. Ray Golenor
Goncourt
Lisa Marburg Goodman
John Bartholomew Gough
Stephen Jay Gould
Baltasar Gracian
Steffi Graf
Ulysses S. Grant
Gunter Grass
Robert Graves
Graham Green
Daniel S. Greenberg
Gregory I
Alfred Whitney Griswold
Erwin N. Griswold
Lee Grosscup
Hugo Grotius
Texas Guinan
Erich Gutkind
Doug Gwyn
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A man in love is incomplete until he has married. Then he's finished.
I never hated a man enough to give him diamonds back.
Faced with the choice of changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.
When all else fails, immortality can always be achieved through spectacular error.
Clearly the most unfortunate people are those who must do the same thing over and over again, every minute, or perhaps twenty to the minute. They deserve the shortest hours and the highest pay.
I do not feel obligated to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forego their use.
I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn anything from him.
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.
You must be the change you wish to see in the world.
An eye for an eye and the whole world would be blind.
There is more to life than increasing its speed.
Opera is when a guy gets stabbed in the back and, instead of bleeding, he sings.
Some people strengthen society just by being the kind of people they are.
I offer neither pay, nor quarters, nor provisions; I offer hunger, thirst, forced marches, battles, and death. Let him who loves his country in his heart and not with his lips only, follow me.
Man has created God, not God man.
There are no stupid questions, just stupid people.
My country is the world; my countrymen are mankind.
I am in earnest. I will not equivocate; I will not excuse; I will not retreat a single inch; and I will be heard.
So long as all the increased wealth which modern progress brings goes but to build up great fortunes, to increase luxury and make sharper the contrast between the House of Have and the House of Want, progress is not real and cannot be permanent.
There is danger in reckless change; but greater danger in blind conservatism.
There are three ways by which an individual can get wealth--by work, by gift, and by theft. And, clearly, the reasons why the workers get so little is that the beggars and thieves get so much.
No one can possibly achieve any real and lasting success or "get rich" in business by being a conformist.
I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.
The evidence of the heavenly witnesses--the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghost--would now be rejected in any court of justice.
The true hypocrite is the one who ceases to perceive his deception, the one who lies with sincerity.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.
Wisdom begins where fear of God ends.
It is much more difficult than one thinks not to believe in God.
You have no idea what a poor opinion I have of myself--and how little I deserve it.
Success is always temporary. When all is said and done, the only thing you'll have left is your character.
I don't have anything against work. I just figure, why deprive somebody who really enjoys it.
It is because nations tend to stupidity and baseness that mankind moves so slowly; it is because individuals have a capacity for better things that it moves at all.
The mob that would die for a belief seldom hesitates to inflict death upon any opposing heretical group.
Live so that your friends can defend you, but never have to.
If government be founded in the consent of the people, it can have no power over any individual by whom that consent is refused.
The most desirable state of mankind, is that which maintains the general security, with the smallest encroachment upon individual independence.
The first duty of men is, to take none of the principles of conduct upon trust; to do nothing without a clear and individual conviction that it is right to be done.
The project of a national education ought uniformly to be discouraged, on account of its obvious alliance with national government. This is an alliance of a more formidable nature than the old and much contested alliance of church and state.
We can manage without butter but not, for example, without guns. If we are attacked we can only defend ourselves with guns not with butter.
It is the absolute right of the State to supervise the formation of public opinion.
Our critics are morbid, degenerate, democratic individuals. Some even say the Jew is a human being.
Not where we stand, but in what direction we are moving.
Everything has been thought of before, but the problem is to think of it again.
Anarchism, then, really, stands for the liberation of the human mind from the dominion of religion; the liberation of the human body from the dominion of property; liberation from the shackles and restraints of government.
I would remind you that extremism in the defence of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!
Some people so treasure the truth they use it with great economy.
If there is a God, atheism must seem to Him less of an insult than religion.
People are not afraid of death, but of the incompleteness of their lives.
What is a minority? The chosen heroes of this earth have been a minority. There is not a social, political, or religious privelege that you enjoy today that was not bought for you by the blood and tears and patient suffering of the minority.
A man does not attain the status of Galileo merely because he is persecuted; he must also be right.
Always leave something to wish for; otherwise you will be miserable from your very happiness.
One lie will destroy a whole reputation for integrity.
Never contend with a man who has nothing to lose.
Always act as if you were seen.
My father taught me you can't spend any time worrying about whether you're going to lose. You can't measure success if you've never failed.
I know of no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
The job of a citizen is to keep his mouth open.
Yet no scientist, however specialized his field, can factually accept even the Book of Genesis; and what the scientist thinks today, everyone else will be thinking on the day after tomorrow.
Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.
There is always one moment in childhood when the door opens and lets the future in.
Don't ask the barber whether you need a haircut
If the work of God would be comprehended by reason, it would be no longer wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.
Books won't stay banned. They won't burn. Ideas won't go to jail. The only weapon against bad ideas is better ideas.
The right to be let alone is the underlying principle of the Constitution's Bill of Rights.
The older you get, the greater you were.
Even God cannot make two times two not make four.
Fifty million Frenchmen can't be wrong.
The stupendous fact that we stand in the midst of reality will always be something far more wonderful than anything else we do.
Truth is not determined by majority vote.
