Notable Quotes
“Take heart: your struggle is surely no less noble simply because no drum beats before you when you go out into your daily battlefields,
or because no crowds shout about your coming when you return from your daily victory or defeat.”
— Robert Lewis Stevenson
“I believe in an open mind, but not so open that your brains fall out.”
— Arthur Hays Sulzberger
“One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.”
— Milton Friedman
“It is the paradox of history that each generation is converted by the saint who contradicts it most.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Achievable goals are the first step to self-improvement.”
— J. K. Rowling
“A man’s character is like a wall; it cannot be strengthened by whitewash.”
— Jeremiah Burroughs
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales.
If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.”
— Albert Einstein
“He that goeth about to persuade a multitude that they are not
so well governed as they ought to be shall never want attentive and favorable hearers.”
— Richard Hooker
“We have two parties here, and only two.
One is the evil party, and the other is the stupid party.
I’m very proud to be a member of the stupid party.
Occasionally, the two parties get together to do something that’s both evil and stupid.
That’s called bipartisanship.”
— M. Stanton Evans
“Opportunity is missed by most people because it is dressed in overalls and looks like work.”
— Thomas Edison
“There is only one form of political strategy in which I have any confidence,
and that is to try to do the right thing—and sometimes be able to succeed.”
— Calvin Coolidge