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Dorothy Parker
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S. H. Payer
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Claude Pepper
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Laurence J. Peter
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Wendell Phillips
Pablo Picasso
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Charles Pinckney
William Pitt
Plato
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Karl Popper
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Wherever we are content, that is our country.
Science cannot resolve moral conflicts, but it can help to more accurately frame the debates about these conflicts.
Society in every state is a blessing, but government, in its best state, is but a necessary evil, in its worst, and intolerable one.
Character is much easier kept than recovered.
My own mind is my own church.
The cause of America is, in a great measure, the cause of all mankind.
When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary.
Society is produced by our wants, and government by our wickedness.
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands it now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman.
The declaration which says God visits the sins of the fathers upon the children, is contrary to every principle of moral justice.
Moderation in temper is always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice.
That government is best which governs least.
It is the duty of the patriot to protect his country from its government.
Strategies are okayed in boardrooms that even a child would say are bound to fail. The problem is, there is never a child in the boardroom.
As long as women consent to be unjustly governed, they will be; but directly women say: "We withhold our consent," we will not be governed any longer as long as government is unjust. Not by the forces of civil war can you govern the very weakest woman. You can kill that woman, but she escapes you then; you cannot govern her.
Trust in God: She will provide.
Wit has truth in it. Wisecracking is simply calistenics with words.
If you want to know what God thinks of money, just look at the people he gave it to.
I don't care what is written about me as long as it isn't true.
The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain.
The heart has its reasons that the mind cannot know.
All man's troubles come from not knowing how to sit still in one room.
Man is but a reed, the weakest in nature, but he is a thinking reed.
It is not permitted to the most equitable of men to be a judge in his own cause.
The majority is the best way, because it is visible, and has strength to make itself obeyed. Yet it is the opinion of the least able.
The object of war is not to die for your country but to make the other bastard die for his.
The best way to have a good idea is to have lots of ideas.
There will always remain some questions that have not yet been answered. In general, these are the questions that have not yet been posed.
There is no such thing as a free lunch, and even if there were, there'd be no guarantee against indigestion.
Be yourself--but be your best self.
Getting people to like you is only the other side of liking them.
Life is like riding a bicycle; you don't fall off unless you stop pedaling.
After you've done a thing the same way for two years, look it over carefully. After five years, look at it with suspicion. And after ten years, throw it away and start all over.
We have met the enemy, and they are ours.
Heredity is what sets the parents of teenagers wondering about each other.
Going to church does not make you a Christian anymore than going to the garage makes you a car.
Bureaucrats write memoranda both because they appear to be busy when they are writing and because the memos, once written, immediately become proof they were busy.
Revolutions are not made; they come.
One on God's side is a majority.
Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist after growing up.
Failure is not falling down. It is not getting up again.
Millions for defence, but not one cent for tribute.
Necessity is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.
To do injustice is more disgraceful than to suffer it.
Mankind censures injustice, fearing that they may be victims of it and not because they shrink from committing it.
Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.
Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night: God said, "Let Newton be," and all was light.
Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.
One murder made a villain, millions a hero. Princes were privileged to kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.
An egotist is a man who thinks that if he hadn't been born, people would have wondered why.
Remember, a closed mouth gathers no foot.
A man's respect for law and order exists in precise relationship to the size of his paycheck.
There are no secrets to success. It is the result of preparation, hard work, learning from failure.
To entertain reasons for believing in the existence of a thing presupposes the possibility of its nonexistence.
I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or to do in half a dozen lifetimes.
The end must justify the means.
Communism is inequality, but not as property is. Property is the exploitation of the weak by the strong. Communism is the exploitation of the strong by the weak.
