Famous Quotes & Sayings

Abraham Lincoln

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

Alexis de Tocqueville

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Calvin Coolidge

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

Felix Frankfurter

The ultimate touchstone of constitutionality is the Constitution itself and not what we have said about it.

Harry Browne

You can't give the government the power to do good without also giving it the power to do bad - in fact, to do anything it wants.

Katharine Graham

Truth and news are not the same thing.

Joseph Sobran

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Martin Niemoller

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

Chinua Achebe

When we hear a house has fallen do we ask if the ceiling fell with it?

Chinua Achebe

Writers don't give prescriptions. They give headaches!

Chinua Achebe

The only thing we have learnt from experience is that we learn nothing from experience.

Brad Bird

Look, it's a mainstream animated movie, and how often are those considered thought provoking? It's meant to be a great time at the theater, but it's also designed to work on more than one level

Arthur C. Clarke

It must be wonderful to be seventeen, and to know everything.

William Shakespeare

When words are scarce they are seldom spent in vain.

Abraham Joshua Heschel

We worry a great deal about the problem of church and state. Now what about the church and God? Sometimes there seems to be a greater separation between the church and God than between the church and state.

Aeschylus

To learn is to be young, however old.

C. S. Lewis

The safest road to hell is the gradual one - the gentle slope, soft underfoot, without sudden turnings, without milestones, without signposts.

Charles Dickens

Keep up appearances whatever you do.

Charles Dickens

Sudden shifts and changes are no bad preparation for political life.

Alan Moore

If you're going to have any kind of political opposition in the 21st century, then it has to be as fundamentally liquid as the rapidly changing society we're living in.

Alan Greenspan

If you get beyond the political rhetoric [and assembled a group to solve Social Security] it would take them 15 minutes. It would take them 15 minutes only because 10 minutes was used for pleasantries.

Chris Christie

Here's what I know about political campaigns: no matter what you map out at the beginning, it's always different at the end.

Chris Christie

If I cannot trust someone's judgment, I cannot ask others to do so, and I would not place him at the head of my political operation.

Chiranjeevi

I used to do some philanthropic work, but with the political platform, I can contribute in a bigger way.

David Mitchell

I'm not a great deep political thinker.

David Kim

Economic and political structures that have a far sweeping impact on the lives of billions is not outside the purview of the gospel's redemptive influence.