Miscellaneous Quotes

If a man happens to find himself, he has a mansion which he can inhabit with dignity all the days of his life.

The permanent temptation of life is to confuse dreams with reality. The permanent defeat of life comes when dreams are surrendered to reality.

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds.

We have the Bill of Rights. What we need is a Bill of Responsibilities.

It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless minority keen to set brush fires in people's minds.

Character, not circumstances, makes the man.

One man cannot hold another man down in the ditch without remaining down in the ditch with him.

There are two ways of exerting one's strength: one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.

Whenever a thing is done for the first time, it releases a little demon.

If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient attention, than to any other talent.

We build too many walls and not enough bridges.

Whoever despises himself still respects himself as one who despises.

Wisely and slow; they stumble that run fast.

What is a weed? A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered.

When you stop giving and offering something to the rest of the world, it's time to turn out the lights.

Humility must always be the portion of any man who receives acclaim earned in blood of his followers and sacrifices of his friends.

To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.

Struggle is the father of all things. It is not by the principles of humanity that man lives or is able to preserve himself above the animal world, but solely by means of the most brutal struggle. If you do not fight, life will never be won.

The broad masses of a population are more amenable to the appeal of rhetoric than to any other force.

I welcome this kind of examination because people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well I'm not a crook.