Famous Quotes & Sayings

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

William Allen White

Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.

John Adams

Mankind will in time discover that unbridled majorities are as tyrannical and cruel as unlimited despots.

Martin Niemoller

First they came for the Jews, but I did nothing because I'm not a Jew. Then they came for the socialists, but I did nothing because I'm not a socialist. Then they came for the Catholics, but I did nothing because I'm not a Catholic. Finally, they came for me, but by then there was no one left to help me.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Never forget that everything Hitler did in Germany was legal.

Joseph Sobran

The most fundamental purpose of government is defense, not empire.

Katharine Graham

Truth and news are not the same thing.

Calvin Coolidge

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Ringo Starr

Everything government touches turns to crap.

Bill Donohue

What we would like them to do is send them a message that this kind of hate speech which is designed to intimidate Catholics from engaging in public discussions can't be tolerated.

Andrew Greeley

God lurks everywhere. That's the fundamental Catholic instinct on the imaginative and poetic level-that God is lurking everywhere. Right down the street, right around the corner, there's God.

Meghan Markle

I went to an all-girls' Catholic school for, like, six years during the time when kids actually had handwriting class. I've always had a propensity for getting the cursive down pretty well.

Juanes

I have great respect for Catholic traditions; my family is Catholic, and it's part of my life.

Woody Allen

There's nothing sexier than a lapsed Catholic.

Robert Duvall

The cultural contrast I saw between religions... Catholics have a lot of mediators, going through saints and Mary or whatever. Protestants in general say things to God directly.

Richard Rohr

We Catholics must admit that there is a constant temptation among us to avoid the lectionary and the Word of God for private and pious devotions that usually have little power to actually change us or call our ego assumptions into question.

Robin Williams

I'm an Episcopal, which is Catholic Lite. It's like same religion, half the guilt.

Warren Buffett

You should invest like a Catholic marries: for life.

Lord Shaftesbury

Wit is its own remedy. Liberty and commerce bring it to its true standard. The only danger is the laying an embargo. The same thing happens here as in the case of trade: impositions and restrictions reduce it to a low ebb; nothing is so advantageous to it as a free port.

William J. Brennan

The framers knew that liberty is a fragile thing, and so should we.

Woodrow Wilson

The history of liberty is a history of resistance.

William J. Clinton

I can spend your money better than you can.

William J. Clinton

The road to tyranny, we must never forget, begins with the destruction of the truth.

Will Durant

When liberty exceeds intelligence, it begets chaos, which begets dictatorship.

Will Durant

As soon as liberty is complete it dies in anarchy.

Will Durant

When liberty becomes license, dictatorship is near.

Robert Nozick

Taxation of earnings from labor is on a par with forced labor.