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