Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
I only want to write one thing over the doorpost to my heart and life: “Jesus Christ lives here.
A certain amount of opposition is a great help to a man. Kites rise against, not with, the wind.
Humor is our way of defending ourselves from life's absurdities by thinking absurdly about them.
One knows something is important when the powers that be choose not to acknowledge it in public.
The Founding Fathers would be sorry to see that America had become so divided and factionalized.
That [race] is still part of what [Barack Obama] is riding on. Except that, too, is diminishing.
I am hesitant to say this about [Barack] Obama. Obama is a bad man in terms of the Constitution.
I can't imagine having a conversation about 'Celebrity Big Brother' in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
There is no surer sign of decay in a country than to see the rites of religion held in contempt.
Men walk almost always in the paths trodden by others, proceeding in their actions by imitation.
Nearly all interested parties think I write too shortly on the subjects that interest them most.
If he is knocked out of the competition, he encourages his brothers with his words and presence.
By the time a second term rolls around, the illusions about a president have largely evaporated.
War will of itself discover and lay open the hidden and rankling wounds of the victorious party.
The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
No one who has studied Western history can cling to the belief that the Nazis invented genocide.
Taxation is the price which civilized communities pay for the opportunity of remaining civilized.
Any one who is prosperous may by the turn of fortune's wheel become most wretched before evening.
To be a bestseller is not necessarily a measure of quality, but it is a measure of communication.
People are increasingly concerned about unemployment, but Republicans have nothing to offer them.
Yet humanitarianism is not a purely Christian movement any more than it is a purely humanist one.
Of human life, the most glorious or humble prospects are alike and soon bounded by the sepulchre.
Social history might be defined negatively as the history of a people with the politics left out.
A society in stable equilibrium is-by definition-one that has no history and wants no historians.
Let there be nothing untried; for nothing happens by itself, but men obtain all things by trying.
Men's fortunes are on a wheel, which in its turning suffers not the same man to prosper for ever.
If the Pilgrims had landed in Santa Monica Bay rather than Boston, we'd have six states out here!
I like narrative, and I ultimately am in love with the men and women I write about, most of them.
To imagine things other than they are is the essence of hope. It is also the stuff of revolution.
Adding highway lanes to deal with traffic congestion is like loosening your belt to cure obesity.
We must do our best to raise the public awareness of the past in all its richness and complexity.
Speaking generally, men are ungrateful, fickle, hypocritical, fearful odanger and covetous ogain.
Chickenshit can be recognized instantly because it never has anything to do with winning the war.
To get home you had to end the war. To end the war was the reason you fought it. The only reason.
Intellectualism, though by no means confined to doubters, is often the sole piety of the skeptic.
...only the unscrupulous or shortsighted can defend pollution and degradation of the countryside.
A few hints as to the craft may be useful to budding historians. First and foremost, get writing!
Neglected, calumny soon expires, show that you are hurt, and you give it the appearance of truth.
No one in Germany laughs at vice, nor do they call it the fashion to corrupt and to be corrupted.
There are odious virtues; such as inflexible severity, and an integrity that accepts of no favor.
America is replicated at every level of British life, from the taxi driver to the prime minister.
I think people are beating each other up in the halls of Congress, as they did in the late 1850s.
Believe in life! Always human beings will live and progress to greater, broader, and fuller life.
To remain silent is the most useful service that a mediocre speaker can render to the public good.
Science and technology revolutionize our lives, but memory, tradition and myth frame our response.
The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.
Thus, the use of fiat money is more justifiable in financing a depression than in financing a war.
Environmentalism opposes reckless innovation and makes conservation the central order of business.
All religions, all indigenous traditions, all origin stories provide a large map of where you are.
'The bully pulpit' is somewhat diminished in our age of fragmented attention and fragmented media.