Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first. Mark Twain
Mark Twain (Samuel Langhorne Clemens) (1835-1910)
Category Archives: Quotations Freedom
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can …
You may fool all the people some of the time, you can even fool some of the people all of the time, but you cannot fool all of the people all the time. Abraham Lincoln
Most people want security in this world, not liberty. H.L. Mencken (…
Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
H.L. Mencken
(1880-1956)
The vice president has implied in the past that he saw combat …
The vice president has implied in the past that he saw combat in Vietnam, and that his work as an investigative reporter for the Nashville Tennessean put people in jail. Neither is true. Mona Charen
Sept 7, 2000
An election is nothing more than an advance auction of stolen goods. …
An election is nothing more than an advance auction of stolen goods. Ambrose Bierce
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are …
Laws that forbid the carrying of arms..disarm only those who are neither inclined nor determined to commit crimes. Such laws make things worse for the assaulted and better for the assailants; they serve rather to encourage than prevent homicides, for an unarmed man may be attacked with greater confidence than an armed one. Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson quoting Cesare Beccaria, Criminologist 1764 (1743-1826)
A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with …
A policy of subsidizing failures will end in an economy strewn with capital-guzzling industries long past their time of profitability – old companies that cannot create jobs themselves, but can stand in the way of job creation. George Gilder
Wealth and Poverty
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims …
People who consider themselves victims of their circumstances will always remain victims unless they develop a greater vision for their lives. Stedman Graham
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If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married. Katharine Hepburn
If a President of the United States ever lied to the American …
If a President of the United States ever lied to the American people he should resign. Bill Clinton
At the height of Watergate in the summer of 1974, during Bill Clinton’s race to become a U.S. Representative from Arkansas. Arkansas Democrat Gazette, 1974