The way to convince another is to state your case moderately andaccurately. Then scratch your head, or shake it a little and say that is theway it seems to you, but that of course you may be mistaken about it; whichcauses your listener to receive what you have to say, and as like as not,turn about and try to convince you of it, since you are in doubt. But if yougo at him in a tone of positiveness and arrogance, you only make an opponentof him. Benajmin Franklin
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
We lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war — …
We lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war — the guerrilla wins if he does not lose, the conventional army loses if it does not win. Henry Kissenger
Foreign Affairs Magazine, 1968
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall …
We shall defend our island whatever the cost may be; we shall fight on beaches, landing grounds, in fields, in streets and on the hills. We shall never surrender and even if, which I do not for the moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, will carry on the struggle until in God’s good time the New World with all its power and might, sets forth to the liberation and rescue of the Old. Winston Churchill
Sir Winston Leonard Spencer Churchill, British statesman and Prime Minister (1940-1945; 1951-1955) 1874-1965
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our …
We shall not cease from explorationAnd the end of all our exploringEWill be to arrive where we startedAnd know the place for the first time.Through the unknown, remembered gateWhen the last of earth left to discoverIs that which was the beginning;At the source of the longest riverThe voice of the hidden waterfallAnd the children in the apple-treeNot known, because not looked forBut heard, half-heard, in the stillnessBetween two waves of the sea.Quick now, here, now, always -A condition of complete simplicity(Costing not less than everything)And all shall be well andAll manner of thing shall be wellWhen the tongues of flame are infoldedInto the crowned knot of fireAnd the fire and the rose are one. T.S. Eliot
from Little GiddingE (in the Four Quartets)1888-1965
Some folks still don’t get it. The federal government’s one-…
Some folks still don’t get it. The federal government’s one-size-fits-all policy was repudiated by the voters in November [1994], but true believers continue to look to Washington to solve our welfare problem while ignoring the extraordinarily creative reforms launched by states. Phil Gramm
Phil Gramm, USA Today, February 1, 1995
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be …
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance, and a people who mean to be their own governors, must arm themselves with the power knowledge gives. A popular government without popular information or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a farce or a tragedy or perhaps both. James Madison
(Fourth President of the United States) (1751-1836)
But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you …
But money is only a tool. It will take you wherever you wish, but it will not replace you as the driver. It will give you the means for the satisfaction of your desires, but it will not provide you with desires. Money is the scourge of the men who attempt to reverse the law of causality- the men who seek to replace the mind by seizing the products of the mind. Ayn Rand
Atlas Shrugged,(1905-1982)
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face …
The urge to save humanity is almost always only a false-face for the urge to rule it. H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them …
Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn reasonable and become your enemies. One quarter are afraid to stop and speak. And onequarter are killed and you die with them. The blessed final quarter keep you alive. Sinclair Lewis
An economist is the only professional who sees something working in practice …
An economist is the only professional who sees something working in practice and then seriously wonders if it works in theory. Ronald Reagan