Archived Quotes

As long as this exists,

this sunshine and this cloudless sky,

and as long as I can enjoy it,

how can I be sad?

Don't part with your illusions.

When they are gone,

you may still exist,

but you have ceased to live.

One must judge the past by the present to understand the future.

The value of a principle is

the number of things it will explain.

The propagandist’s purpose is to make one set of people

forget that certain other sets of people are human.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be

able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

My observation is that

whenever one person is found adequate to the discharge of a duty...

it is worse executed by two persons,

and scarcely done at all if three or more are employed therein.

I'm not concerned with your liking or disliking me...

All I ask is that you respect me as a human being.

Loyalty over everything.

The biggest risk is not taking any risk.

Keep raising your words,

not your voice.

It is rain that grows flowers,

not thunder.

Tell me who your heroes are and

I’ll tell you how you’ll turn out.

I try to buy stock in businesses

that are so wonderful that an idiot can run them.

I have said a hundred times,

and I have no inclination to take it back,

that I believe there is no right,

and ought to be no inclination in the people

of the free States to enter into the slave States,

and to interfere with the question of slavery at all.

I have said that always.

Doing the best at this moment puts you in

the best place for the next moment.

A room without books is like a body without a soul.

Few men have virtue to withstand the highest bidder.

The fear of death follows from the fear of life. A man who lives fully is prepared to die At any time.

I don't give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.

Price is what you pay.

Value is what you get.