Famous Quotes & Sayings

John Adams

There are two educations. One should teach us how to make a living and the other how to live.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

When you get to the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on.

Theodore Roosevelt

The only man who makes no mistakes is the man who never does anything.

John Adams

Liberty cannot be preserved without a general knowledge among the people.

Woodrow Wilson

He is not a true man of the world who knows only the present fashions of it.

Andrew Jackson

Fear not, the people may be deluded for a moment, but cannot be corrupted.

Andrew Jackson

The wisdom of man never yet contrived a system of taxation that would operate with perfect equality.

Robert Herrick

Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt. Nothing's so hard but search will find it out.

Abraham Lincoln

With public sentiment, nothing can fail. Without it, nothing can succeed.

Alan Moore

People shouldn't be afraid of their government. Governments should be afraid of their people.

Alan Green

In the time of Mrs Thatcher the church, to give it its due, spoke out and was an enemy of the Conservative government.

Alan Greenspan

In general, corruption tends to exist whenever governments have favors to extend, or something to sell.

Alan Greenspan

The guiding purpose of the government regulator is to prevent rather than to create something.

Alan Greenspan

Stripped of its academic jargon, the welfare state is nothing more than a mechanism by which governments confiscate the wealth of the productive members of a society to support a wide variety of welfare schemes. A substantial part of the confiscation is effected by taxation. But the welfare statists were quick to recognize that if they wished to retain political power, the amount of taxation had to be limited and they had to resort to programs of massive deficit spending, i.e., they had to borrow money,by issuing government bonds, to finance welfare expenditures on a large scale.

Alan Greenspan

We are in the midst of a once-in-a-century credit tsunami. Central banks and governments are being required to take unprecedented measures. Those of us who have looked to the self-interest of lending institutions to protect shareholders' equity are in a state of shocked disbelief.

Al Sharpton

We need an amendment that gives us the right to vote protected by the federal government and the Constitution.

Akbar Hashemi Rafsanjani

If we have any problems, it's always with the government of the United States.

Andy Troszok

We want the opportunity to work with the government on this.