Notable Quotes
“Life’s tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.”
— Benjamin Franklin
“We must take human nature where we find it; perfection falls not to the share of mortals.”
— George Washington
“When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.”
— Sherlock Holmes
(Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“The problem is not that people are taxed too little, the problem is that government spends too much.”
— Ronald Reagan
Most people work just hard enough not to get fired and get paid just enough money not to quit.”
— George Carlin
“There is only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.”
— Aldous Huxley
“No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear.
Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we’ll ever see on this earth!”
— Ronald Reagan
“The philosophy of the school room in one generation will be the philosophy of the government in the next.”
— Abraham Lincoln
“Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.”
— Edmund Burke
“The same prudence which in private life would forbid our paying our own money for unexplained projects,
forbids it in the dispensation of the public monies.”
— Thomas Jefferson
“Without education we are in a horrible and deadly danger of taking educated people seriously..”
— Gilbert K. Chesterton