Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Phillips

Will the slave fight? If any man asks you, tell him No. But if anyone asks you will a Negro fight, tell him Yes!

Wendell Phillips

Government began in tyranny and force, began in the feudalism of the soldier and bigotry of the priest; and the ideas of justice and humanity have been fighting their way, like a thunderstorm, against the organized selfishness of human nature.

W. Somerset Maugham

There was once a professor of law who said to his students. When you are fighting a case, if you have facts on your side hammer them into the jury, and if you have the law on your side hammer it into the judge. But if you have neither the facts nor the law, asked one of his listeners? Then hammer the hell into the table, answered the professor.

Winston Churchill

And wherever men are fighting against barbarism, tyranny, and massacre, for freedom, law, and honour, let them remember that the fame of their deeds, even though they themselves be exterminated, may perhaps be celebrated as long as the world rolls round.

Winston Churchill

Painting a picture is like trying to fight a battle.

Winston Churchill

I do not hold that we should rearm in order to fight. I hold that we should rearm in order to parley.

Willie Aames

No matter how I might feel about myself or my self-image, there is still a part of me that wants to fight to the end.

William Safire

Previously known for its six syllables of sweetness and light, reconciliation has become the political fighting word of the year.

William Kristol

If terror groups are to be defeated, it is national governments that will have to do so. In nations like India, governments will have to call on the patriotism of citizens to fight the terrorists. In a nation like Pakistan, the government will have to be persuaded to deal with those in their midst who are complicit.

William Jennings Bryan

I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us.

Virginia Woolf

I have a feeling I shall go mad. I cannot go on longer in these terrible times. I shan't recover this time. I hear voices and cannot concentrate on my work. I have fought against it but cannot fight any longer.

Virginia Woolf

It is impossible for human beings, constituted as they are, both to fight and to have ideals.

Woody Guthrie

All of you cowboys, fight for your land.

Woodrow Wilson

We shall fight for a universal dominion of right by such a concert of free peoples as shall bring peace and safety to all nations and make the world itself at last free.

Woodrow Wilson

There is such a thing as a man being too proud to fight.

Woodrow Wilson

I am one who fights without a knack of hoping confidentlysimply a Scotch-Irishman who will not be conquered.

Woodrow Wilson

While we are fighting for freedom, we must see, among other things, that labor is free.

Woodrow Wilson

We have beaten the living, but we cannot fight the dead.

Woodrow Wilson

In public affairs, stupidity is more dangerous than knavery, because it is harder to fight.

Woodrow Wilson

Tell me what is right and I will fight for it.

Woody Allen

I've often felt that life is a hard deal and it's unrelentingly tragic and an uphill fight.

Woody Allen

I can understand that an audience, buying a ticket to see a picture of mine, wants to see something funny because they feel confident that at least I have a fighting chance to make a funny film when I make a film, whereas if I make a dramatic film there's one chance in a thousand that it's really going to come out great, so I understand how they feel about that and they're completely right.

William Shakespeare

Give thanks for what you are today and go on fighting for what you gone be tomorrow

William J. Clinton

AIDS is no longer a death sentence for those who can get the medicines. Now it's up to the politicians to create the "comprehensive strategies" to better treat the disease.

William James

We have lost the power even of imagining what the ancient idealization of poverty could have meant: the liberation from material attachments, the unbribed soul, the manlier indifference, the paying our way by what we are and not by what we have, the right to fling away our life at any moment irresponsibly - the more athletic trim, in short, the moral fighting shape.

Will Durant

Men decided that it was better to pay taxes than to fight among themselves; better to pay tribute to one magnificent robber than to bribe them all.

Sarah Palin

We have to fight for our freedoms, also, economic and our national security freedoms.

Tyne Daly

A critic never fights the battle; they just go around shooting the wounded.

Tyrese Gibson

Ive never had to fight hard for anything Ive gotten in the past.

Ty Cobb

I had to fight all my life to survive. They were all against me... but I beat the bastards and left them in the ditch.

Vladimir Putin

Those who fight corruption should be clean themselves.

Vladimir Putin

We shall fight against them, throw them in prisons and destroy them.

Vladimir Putin

I think the international community should unite to fight such inhuman phenomena as terror attacks and the murder of totally innocent people.