Famous Quotes

Misc. Quotes

“A government big enough to give you everything you want
is big enough to take away everything you have.”

Gerald Ford


“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”

Mark Twain
Author

“Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish”

Euripidas

“i’m living so far beyond my income that we may almost be said to be living apart.”

e. e. cummings
writer and poet

“We have met the enemy, and he is us.”

Walt Kelly
animator of “Pogo”

“It takes five years of very hard work to become an instant success.”

William A. Shea, Jr.
Shea & Gould

“There’s a better way to do it. Find it.”

Thomas A. Edison
Inventor

“If you shoot, shoot to kill.”

J. Edgar Hoover
Famous FBI Director

“You miss 100 percent of the shots you never take.”

Wayne Gretzky
Hockey Player

“Throw strikes. Home plate don’t move.”

Satchel Paige
Baseball Player

“It is not the employer who pays the wages. Employers only handle the money. It’s the customer who pays the wages.”

Henry Ford
Founder of Ford Motor Company

“Success is more a function of consistent common sense than it is of genius.”

An Wang
founder of Wang Computer

“Don’t mistake control for leadership.”

C. Everett Koop, M.D.
Former Surgeon General

“When you win, nothing hurts.”

Joe Namath
Football Player

“Law, without force, is impotent.”

Blaise Pascal
Philosopher

“Work done with little effort is likely to yield little results.”

B.C. Forbes
Businessman

“Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn’t.”

Erica Jong
Columnist

“Tell me, I forget; show me, I remember; involve me, I understand.”

Ernst Wynder, M.D.
President, American Health Foundation

“Lord, grant that I may always desire more than than I can accomplish.”

Michelangelo
Inventor, Sculpter, Painter

“No freeman shall be debarred the use of arms…”

Thomas Jefferson
Author of the Declaration of Independance

“…The people have the right to bear arms for the defense of themselves and the state…”

Pennsylvania Declaration of 1776

“I ask, sir, what is the militia? It is the whole people… To disarm the people is the best and most effective way to enslave them…”

George Mason
Framer of the Constitution

“Americans [have] the right and advantage of being armed–unlike citizens of other countries whose governments are afraid to trust the people with arms.”

James Madison
Framer of the Constitution

“…Arms like laws discourage and keep the invader and the plunderer in awe, and preserve order in the world as well as property. The balance of power is the scale of peace.”

Thomas Paine

“They that give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety, deserve neither liberty nor safety.”

Benjamin Franklin, 1759

“The Constitution shall never be construed to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens from keeping their own arms…”

Samual Adams

“A well-regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”

Second Amendment of the US Constitution

“The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.”

Tenth Amendment of the US Constitution

“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”

First Amendment of the US Constitution

“If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.”

Sun Tzu

“The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat, and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy.”

Sun Tzu

“To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.”

Sun Tzu

“For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction”

Isaac Newton’s Third Law

The secret of success is sincerity. Once you can fake that you’ve got it made.

anon

After a number of decimal places, nobody gives a damn.

anon

“If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people, under the pretense of taking care of them, they must become happy.” … Thomas Jefferson

“All of us need to be reminded that the Federal Government did not create the States; the States created the Federal Government.”… President Ronald Reagan, first inaugural address, Jan 20, 1981

“Do not separate text from historical background. If you do, you will have perverted and subverted the Constitution, which can only end in a distorted, bastardized form of illegitimate government.”. . . James Madison, Primary Author of the Constitution, President of the United States, Mainstream Militant and Revolutionary

“Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force; like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action.” —-George Washington, speech of January 7, 1790 in the Boston Independent Chronicle, January 14, 1790

“Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any public official, save exactly to the degree he himself stands by the country.” Theodore Roosevelt

“In the beginning of a change, the patriot is a scarce man and brave, hated and scorned. When his cause succeeds however, the timid join him, for then it costs nothing to be a patriot.” Mark Twain

“I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. What I can do I should do and, with the help of God, I will do.” Everett Hale

“These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will, in the crisis, shrink from the service of their country; but he that stands now, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph. What we obtain too cheap, we esteem too lightly; ’tis dearness only that gives everything it’s value. Heaven knows how to put a proper price on it’s goods; and it would be strange indeed, if so celestial an article as freedom should not be highly rated.” Thomas Paine

“It is in vain, sir, to extenuate the matter. Gentlemen may cry, Peace, Peace — but there is no peace. The war is actually begun! The next gale that sweeps from the north will bring to our ears the clash of resounding arms! Our brethren are already in the field! Why stand we here idle? What is it that gentlemen wish? What would they have? Is life so dear, or peace so sweet, as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God! I know not what course others may take; but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!” Patrick Henry

“It is not the function of our Government to keep the citizen from falling into error; it is the function of the citizen to keep the Government from falling into error.” – U.S. Supreme Court in American Communications Association v. Douds, 339 U.S. 382,442

“Extremism in the pursuit of liberty is no vice; moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue.” Barry Goldwater – RNC 1964

Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956) warned that “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed — and hence clamorous to be led to safety — by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”