Famous Quotes & Sayings

Woodrow Wilson

I have always been among those who believed that the greatest freedom of speech was the greatest safety, because if a man is a fool, the best thing to do is to encourage him to advertise the fact by speaking.

Robert E. Lee

Abandon your animosities and make your sons Americans!

John Adams

I always consider the settlement of America with reverence and wonder, as the opening of a grand scene and design in providence, for the illumination of the ignorant and the emancipation of the slavish part of mankind all over the earth.

Katharine Lee Bates

America! America! God shed His grace on thee And crown thy good with brotherhood From sea to shinning sea!

James Madison

Happily for America, happily, we trust, for the whole human race, they pursued a new and more noble course. They accomplished a revolution which has no parallel in the annals of human society.

Benjamin Franklin

He that hath a Trade, hath an Estate.

Benjamin Franklin

Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices.

Benjamin Franklin

Our Constitution is in actual operation; everything appears to promise that it will last; but in this world nothing is certain but death and taxes.

Benjamin Franklin

After three days men grow weary, of a wench, a guest, and weather rainy.

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.

Jeff Burton

He didn't stomp his feet, cry and pout. He didn't lose it. He knew when the race was over it was time to be somebody different.

Drea Matteo

There are so many people that are responsible for this, that if I even try to thank any of them right now, I might puke, choke, cry or die.

Christopher Traulsen

I don't have a crystal ball, but travel is likely to slow.

Charles Hynes

I cry a lot. It was a hard-fought race,

John Troxell

He was the first one in the locker room and I was next, and there he was crying on a bench. I said at that moment this means something to him. That always stuck with me.

Duff Green

Had it not been for the cry of Nullification, Mr. Calhoun would have been nominated by the Anti-Masons.

William S. Burroughs

I like the shaman very much, the way he was crying.

Voltaire

Beware of the words "internal security," for they are the eternal cry of the oppressor.

Chris Carpenter

I'll never forget the night we sat here until about 3 o'clock in the morning crying and talking about my career, ... I was ready to be done. And she didn't think I was, that I would regret it if I didn't take that one more step and try to come back again. And the next thing you know, I got my second surgery and here we are today. And I know that if it wasn't for her I wouldn't be here.