Wednesday, January 26, 2011

Quotables 5

Everett Dirkson - “A billion here, a billion there, and pretty soon you're talking about real money.” 101

Bob Dole - “Criminals are not the victims of society; society is the victim of criminals.” 90

Frederick Douglass - “Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.” 95

Frederick Douglass - “The man who is right is a majority. He who has God and conscience on his side, has a majority against the universe.” 138

Peter F. Drucker - “What we need is an entrepreneural society in which innovation and entrepreneurship are normal, steady and continuous.” 138

Peter F. Drucker - “Long-range planning does not deal with future decisions, but with the future of present decisions.” 119

Sir William Drummond - “He who will not reason, is a bigot; he who cannot is a fool; and he who dares not is a slave.” 118

Will and Ariel Durant - “The family is the nucleus of civilization.” 68

Thomas Alva Edison - “The most necessary task of civilization is to teach men how to think.” 92

Albert Einstein - “Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.” 120

Albert Einstein - “Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities.” 89

Albert Einstein - “The hardest thing in the world to understand is the income tax.” 83

Dwight D. Eisenhower - “Politics should be the part-time profession of every citizen.” 87

Ralph Waldo Emerson - “America is another name for opportunity.” 64

Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Belief in compensation, or that nothing is got for nothing, characterizes all valuable minds.” 117

Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Invention breeds invention.” 51

Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Money often costs too much.” 51

Ralph Waldo Emerson - “The basis of political economy is noninterference.” 74

Ralph Waldo Emerson - “The only difference between you today and you five years from now, is the books you read and the people you meet.” 137

Ralph Waldo Emerson - “Truth is the property of no individual but is the treasure of all men.” 94

Epictetus - “No man is free who is not a master of himself.” 60

Epictetus - “Only the educated are free.” 41

Baron John Arbuthnot Fisher - “The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.” 96

Gerald Ford - “If the government is big enough to give you everything you want, it is big enough to take away everything you have.” 131

Henry Ford - “There is no happiness except in the realization that we have accomplished something.” 99

Harry Emerson Fosdick - “Liberty is always dangerous, but it is the safest thing we have.” 90

Benjamin Franklin - “A penny saved is a penny earned.” 54

Benjamin Franklin - “Honesty is the best policy.” 49

Benjamin Franklin - “They that give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” 129

Benjamin Franklin - “Well done is better than well said.” 57

Benjamin Franklin - “Where liberty is, there is my country.” 60

Benjamin Franklin - “Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.” 116

1 comment:

  1. “Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I’m not sure about the universe.”
    ― Albert Einstein

    “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”
    ― Albert Einstein

    “I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
    ― Albert Einstein

    “If you can’t explain it to a six year old, you don’t understand it yourself.”
    ― Albert Einstein

    “Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
    ― Albert Einstein

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