Famous Quotes & Sayings

Chris Crutcher

...the Magnificent Seven consisted of one swimmer of color, a representative from each extreme of the educational spectrum, a muscle man, a giant, a chameleon, and a one-legged psychopath. When I envision us walking seven abreast through the halls of Cutter High, decked out in the sacred blue and gold, my heart swells.

Charles Portis

Nothing is too long or too short either if you have a true and interesting tale and what I call a "graphic" writing style combined with educational aims.

Dean Koontz

I always enjoyed the kids, but I didn't enjoy the bureaucracy of the educational system.

Dean Kamen

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are dangerously delusional.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Nothing we learn in this world is ever wasted.

Ed Markey

Our nation's security, economy, and place on the world stage depends on the success our educational system.

Elizabeth Bowen

One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

I see by the papers that you have once more stirred that pool of intellectual stagnation, the educational convention.

Abdu'l Baha

The primary, the most urgent requirement is the promotion of education. It is inconceivable that any nation should achieve prosperity and success unless this paramount, this fundamental concern is carried forward. The principal reason for the decline and fall of peoples is ignorance. Today the mass of the people are uninformed even as to ordinary affairs, how much less do they grasp the core of the important problems and complex needs of the time.

Winston Varnado

Liberty just would never give up. They were never out of the game.

Nevada Democrat

Mr. President, liberty and security are not contradictory.

Ludwig von Mises

Liberty is meaningless if it is only the liberty to agree with those in power.

Ludwig von Mises

The market economy needs no apologists and propagandists. It can apply to itself the words of Sir Christopher Wren's epitaph in St. Paul's: 'If you seek his monument, look around.'

Dennis Prager

American troops around the globe are the greatest preservers of liberty and peace in the world.

Abraham Lincoln

I am for . . . each individual doing just as he chooses in all matters which concern nobody else.

Abraham Lincoln

The Cause of civil liberty must not be surrendered at the end of one, or even one hundred defeats.

Abraham Lincoln

What has ever threatened our liberty and prosperity save and except this institution of Slavery?

Ludwig von Mises

As the science of economics...exploded the fallacies of every brand of utopianism, it was outlawed and stigmatized as unscientific.

Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Elbert Hubbard

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Ludwig von Mises

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Al Seckel

It is easier for a libertarian to attack the science of global warming than to alter one's core libertarian beliefs.

Calvin Coolidge

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money. You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

Clint Eastwood

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.

Clint Eastwood

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone