Notable Quotes
“Anyone can complain, and they should have the right to, but if you want to see change you must act.
Actions speak louder than words. Don’t complain about things, change things.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“Have you ever noticed that anybody driving slower than you is an idiot, and anyone going faster than you is a maniac?”
—George Carlin
“Man is an imitative animal.
This quality is the germ of all education in him.
From his cradle to his grave he is learning to do what he sees others do.”
—Thomas Jefferson
“We build too many walls and not enough bridges.”
—Sir Isaac Newton
“America has not attained to greatness because of what we are or what we have.
We have become the exemplars of all the world because of what we have done with what we are and what we have.”
—Theodore Roosevelt
“The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us.”
—Bill Watterson
“The debt is like a crazy aunt we keep down in the basement.
All the neighbors know she’s there, but nobody wants to talk about her. ”
—Ross Perot
“If ever a time should come, when vain and aspiring men shall possess the highest seats in Government,
our country will stand in need of its experienced patriots to prevent its ruin.”
—Samuel Adams
Have we reached the ultimate stage of absurdity where some people are held responsible for things that happened before they were born,
while other people are not held responsible for what they themselves are doing today?
—Thomas Sowell
“You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.”
—Albert Einstein
“We cannot get to where we dream of being tomorrow unless we change our thinking today. ”
—Albert Einstein
“Common sense is something that everyone needs, few have, and none think they lack.”
—Benjamin Franklin
“The most dangerous form of sentimental debauch is to give expression to good wishes on behalf of virtue while you do nothing about it.
Justice is not merely words. It is to be translated into living acts.
Character is always the most important issue in determining the outcome of human events
and character is revealed in what we actually do not merely what we say or believe.”
—Theodore Roosevelt