Notable Quotes
“Politics is like football; if you see daylight, go through the hole.”
— John F. Kennedy
Laws made by common consent must not be trampled on by individuals.
— Thomas Jefferson, Letter to Colonel Vanmeter, April 27, 1781
“Everyone should be respected as an individual, but no one idolized.”
— Albert Einstein
“In matters of style, swim with the current. In matters of principle, stand like a rock.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“There’s no trick to being a humorist when you have the entire government working for you.”
— Will Rogers
He that drinks his Cyder alone, let him catch his Horse alone.
— Benjamin Franklin
“The only thing that is new is the history that we don’t know.”
— Harry Truman
Success is not measured by what you accomplish, but by the opposition you have encountered,
and the courage with which you have maintained the struggle against overwhelming odds.
— Orison Swett Marsden, 1850-1924, Founder of Success magazine
“Never tell the truth to people who are not worthy of it.”
— Mark Twain
“This country has come to feel the same when Congress is in session as when the baby gets hold of a hammer.”
— Will Rogers
“There are 10¹¹ stars in the galaxy. That used to be a huge number.
But it’s only a hundred billion. It’s less than the national deficit!
We used to call them astronomical numbers.
Now we should call them ‘economical numbers.’ ”
— Richard Feynman
“We cuss Congress, and we joke about ’em, but they are all good fellows at heart,
and if they wasn’t in Congress, why, they would be doing something else against us that might be even worse.”
— Will Rogers
“Integrity is doing the right thing. Even when no one is watching.”
— C.S. Lewis
“Great minds discuss ideas;
average minds discuss events;
small minds discuss people.”
— Eleanor Roosevelt
“Baseball ain’t like football. You can’t make up no trick plays.”
— Yogi Berra
“Things do not happen. Things are made to happen.
Conformity is the jailer of freedom and the enemy of growth.”
— John F. Kennedy
“ For the anointed (i.e. liberals),
traditions are likely to be seen as the dead hand of the past, relics of a less enlightened age,
and not as the distilled experience of millions who faced similar human vicissitudes before.”
— Thomas Sowell
“A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.”
— Charles Haddon Spurgeon
“Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“The true soldier fights not because he hates what is in front of him, but because he loves what is behind him.”
— G.K. Chesterton