Quoteable Quotes

QUOTABLE QUOTES


"They that can give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty or safety."
---Benjamin Franklin

"If there must be trouble let it be in my day, that my child may have peace."
---Thomas Paine (1737-1809)

"It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it."
---General Douglas MacArthur

"Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you. Fighting terrorism is like being a goalkeeper. You can make a hundred brilliant saves but the only shot that people remember is the one that gets past you."
---Paul Wilkinson

"When you see a rattlesnake poised to strike, you do not wait until he has struck before you crush him."
---Franklin D. Roosevelt

"Politics is supposed to be the second-oldest profession. I have come to realize that it bears a very close resemblance to the first."
---Ronald Reagan

"No one ever went broke underestimating the taste of the American public."
---HL Mencken

"The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; that... it is their right and duty to be at all times armed."
---Thomas Jefferson to John Cartwright, 1824.

"Firmness in decision is often merely a form of stupidity. It indicates an inability to think the same thing out twice."
---HL Mencken

"[It is] the rudest thing . . . a man throwing his smoke into the face of women and children as they pass up and down the street. Have you a right to throw in my mouth what you puff out of yours? That foul smoke and breath! And you would like to be called a gentleman."
---Carry A. Nation March 23, 1901

"Show me first the graveyards of a country and I will tell you the true character of the people."
---Benjamin Franklin

"Women are like elephants to me: nice to look at, but I wouldn't want to own one."
---W. C. Fields


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