The Last Word

By Weston R. Sager | Thursday, January 25, 2007

A nation which makes the final sacrifice for life and freedom does not get beaten.
—Kemal Ataturk

Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom much, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
—Thomas Paine

The hardest thing about any political campaign is how to win without proving that you are unworthy of winning.
—Theodor Adorno

If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
—George Orwell

Most people do not really want freedom, because freedom involves responsibility, and most people are frightened of responsibility.
—Sigmund Freud

All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.
—Edmund Burke

Being powerful is like being like a lady. If you have to tell people you are – you aren’t.
—Margaret Thatcher

Whoever gossips to you will gossip about you.
—Spanish proverb

Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
—Winston Churchill

The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
—Hubert H. Humphrey

We learn from history that we do not learn from history.
—Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

The hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in times of great moral crises maintain their neutrality.
—Dante Alighieri
Eighty percent of success is just showing up.
—Woody Allen

Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself, but talent instantly recognizes genius.
—Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The test of a first—rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald

It takes as much energy to wish as it does to plan.
—Eleanor Roosevelt

Good judgment comes from experience, and experience usually comes from bad judgment.
—Anonymous

In order for three people to keep a secret, two must be dead.
—Benjamin Franklin

The greatest pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
—Walter Bagehot

Iron rusts from disuse; stagnant water loses it purity and in cold weather becomes frozen; even so does inaction sap the vigor of the mind.
—Leonardo da Vinci

There is always an easy solution to every human problem – neat, plausible, and wrong.
—H. L. Mencken

Diamonds are nothing more than chunks of coal that stuck to their jobs.
—Malcolm Forbes

If you can’t stand the heat, get out of the kitchen.
—Harry S. Truman

Man does not live by words alone, despite the fact that sometimes he has to eat them.
—Adlai E. Stevenson

If I knew I was going to live this long, I’d have taken better care of myself.
—Mickey Mantle

The Last Word

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