Quotes
I didn’t want to clutter up the front page of my blog with a ton of quotes, so I created this page as a place holder for my favorite quotes from famous and infamous individuals. Enjoy, and if you see something attributed to an incorrect “author” please let me know so I can correct it.
President Woodrow Wilson
“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. We are no longer a government by free opinion, no longer a government by conviction and the vote of the majority, but a government by the opinion and duress of a small group of dominant men.” - In response to his signing into law, the Federal Reserve Act in 1919.
Cicero
“To be ignorant of what happened before you were born is to be forever a child…”
Ryan Arrowsmith
“I know they probably checked his ID, but did they have to check for a vagina before they brought him this drink?” - in reference to a pink fruit laden drink seen in Paul Stamatiou’s hand in THIS photo.
Marcus Aurelius
“The object in life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane.”
Alexander Hamilton
“To admit foreigners indiscriminately to the rights of citizens, the moment they put foot in our country would be nothing less than to admit the Grecian horse into the citadel of our liberty and sovereignty. They must first get rid of foreign and acquire American attachments learn the principles and imbibe the spirit of our government, and feel a real interest in our affairs.”
Theodore Roosevelt
“In the first place, we should insist that if the immigrant who comes here in good faith becomes an American and assimilates himself to us, he shall be treated on an exact equality with everyone else, for it is an outrage to discriminate against any such man because of creed, or birthplace, or origin. But this is predicated upon the person’s becoming in every facet an American, and nothing but an American … There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn’t an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag … We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language … and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.”
Bill Cosby
“A word to the wise ain’t necessary - it’s the stupid ones that need the advice.”
“Fatherhood is pretending the present you love most is soap-on-a-rope.”
“I don’t know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody.”
“Parents are not interested in justice, they’re interested in peace and quiet.”
George Carlin
“I have as much authority as the Pope, I just don’t have as many people who believe it.”
“The very existence of flame-throwers proves that some time, somewhere, someone said to themselves, You know, I want to set those people over there on fire, but I’m just not close enough to get the job done.”
“Well, if crime fighters fight crime and fire fighters fight fire, what do freedom fighters fight? They never mention that part to us, do they?”
Stephen King
“People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy… and I keep it in a jar on my desk.”
“Talent is cheaper than table salt. What separates the talented individual from the successful one is a lot of hard work.”
“The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance… logic can be happily tossed out the window.”
“The trust of the innocent is the liar’s most useful tool.”
Martin Luther King Jr.
“A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.”
“Freedom is never voluntarily given by the oppressor; it must be demanded by the oppressed.”
President Ronald Reagan
“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn’t pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same.”
“Government’s first duty is to protect the people, not run their lives.”
“I’ve never been able to understand why a Republican contributor is a ‘fat cat’ and a Democratic contributor of the same amount of money is a ‘public-spirited philanthropist’.”
Thomas Jefferson
“For a people who are free, and who mean to remain so, a well-organized and armed militia is their best security.”
“I am mortified to be told that, in the United States of America, the sale of a book can become a subject of inquiry, and of criminal inquiry too.”
“It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or no God.”
