The Last Word

Monday, April 26, 2004

Liberation is not deliverance.
—Victor Hugo

Socialism is nothing but the capitalism of the lower classes.
—Oswald Spengler

Those who stay away from the election think that one vote will do no good: ' tis but one step more to think one vote will do no harm.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.
—Henry David Thoreau

We have to move ahead, but we are not going to leave anyone behind.
—Ronald Reagan

I'd rather be right than be president.
—Henry Clay

A serious problem in America is the gap between academia and the mass media, which is our culture. Professors in the humanities, with all their leftist fantasies, have little direct knowledge of American life and no impact whatever on public policy.
—Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic. —Abigail Adams

In Boston they ask, How much does he know? In New York, How much is he worth? In Philadelphia, Who were his parents?
—Mark Twain

A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.
—Roald Dahl

The press is like the air, a chartered libertine.
—William Pitt

Love is a narcissism shared by two.
—Adam Smith

Every man is rich or poor according to the proportion between his desires and his enjoyments.
—Samuel Johnson

To disbelieve is easy; to scoff is simple; to have faith is harder.
—Louis L'Amour

To be prepared for war is one of the mot effectual ways of preserving peace.
—George Washington

All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.
—George Orwell

Politics is not an exact science.
—Otto von Bismarck

In the dying world I come from, quotation is a national vice.
—Evelyn Waugh

Defense is superior to opulence.
—Adam Smith

Everybody has a little bit of Watergate in him.
—Billy Graham

Prosperity is necessarily the first theme of a political campaign.
—Woodrow Wilson

All politics are based on the indifference of the majority.
—James Reston

Neither current events nor history show that the majority rule, or ever did rule.
—Jefferson Davis

It is not possible to eat me without insisting that I sing praises of my devourer?
—Fyodor Dostoyevsky

As quickly as you start spending federal money in large amounts, it looks like free money.
—Dwight D. Eisenhower

Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and popular opinion.
—Jack Kerouac

What is popularly called fame is nothing but an empty name and a legacy from paganism.
—Desiderius Erasmus

We wedded men live in sorrow and care.
—Chaucer

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