Original Article: http://dartreview.com/archives/2007/01/25/the_last_word.php
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