Famous Quotes & Sayings

Wendell Phillips

Debt is the fatal disease of republics, the first thing and the mightiest to undermine governments and corrupt the people.

Bill Gross

With all this consumer debt, business debt, government debt, smaller movements in interest rates have a magnified effect. a small movement can tip the boat.

Thomas Jefferson

I am not among those who fear the people. They, and not the rich, are our dependence for continued freedom.

Thomas Jefferson

To preserve our independence, we must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt. We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude.

George Washington

As a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit.

Richard Widmark

I loved Jack Ford. I got him in his later days, and he was a total tyrant and a total autocrat and an Irish drunk. But I had a great time.

William Ellery Channing

The worst tyrants are those which establish themselves in our own breasts.

Richard Pryor

You work your butt off and somebody says you can't have your record played because it offends them. Tyrants are made of such stuff.

William Blake

A tyrant is the worst disease, and the cause of all others.

Werner Herzog

Hold firm to your vision but don't be a tyrant on set,

Upton Sinclair

Fascism is capitalism plus murder.

Twyla Tharp

I'm willing to be regarded as a tyrant to keep my vision intact.

William Godwin

God himself has no right to be a tyrant.

Walter Lippmann

The consent of the governed" is more than a safeguard against ignorant tyrants: it is an insurance against benevolent despots as well.

Kay Redfield Jamison

Moods are complicated and very much a part of who we are. People would be very boring without them.

Andrew Shue

I was lucky, because of Student Council, my classes, sports and social life, there were different people I had friendships with.

Carlisle Floyd

I was interested in what was really going on in Salem at that time, and I resolved to investigate this seemingly unorthodox treatment of the people and the period.

Travis Bradberry

Kindness is weak when you use it in a self-serving manner. Self-serving kindness is thin - people can see right through it when a kind leader has an agenda.

H. Hart

I would try to put more people on the road without doing any more hiring.

Sally Quinn

I would say I think it's about time. People have a tendency to think that entertaining in Washington politically and diplomatically is frivolous, but it is not. It is part of the work.

Karen Russell

I wrote 'Ava Wrestles the Alligator' when I was 22 or 23. These people and that world have been evolving in me for a while. It's such a shift not to be in that world.

Jason Robert Brown

I write about outsiders. I write about people who are outside and don't know quite how to get in because it's how I've always felt.

Don Miller

Just like I've been telling people all year, Ryan isn't going anywhere.