Notable Quotes
“It is not in the nature of politics that the best men should be elected;
the best men do not want to govern their fellowmen.”
— George MacDonald
“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it’s someone who reads Marx and Lenin.
And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It’s someone who understands Marx and Lenin.
— Ronald Reagan, 1987
“An adventure is only an inconvenience rightly considered.
An inconvenience is only an adventure wrongly considered.”
— G.K. Chesterton
“Everything is funny, as long as it’s happening to somebody else.”
— Will Rogers
“I am only one, but still I am one. I cannot do everything, but still I can do something.
And because I cannot do everything, I will not refuse to do the something that I can do.”
— Edward Hale
“What we anticipate seldom occurs; what we least expected generally happens.”
— Benjamin Disraeli
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
— Sherlock Holmes
(Arthur Conan Doyle)
“I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending too small a degree of it.”
— Thomas Jefferson