Chartacter Quotes

Behind the ostensible government sits enthroned

an invisible government owing no allegiance

and acknowledging no responsibility to the people.

Take time to deliberate;

but when the time for action arrives,

stop thinking and go in.

With my wife I don't get no respect.

I made a toast on her birthday to

the best woman a man ever had.

The waiter joined me.

The supreme quality for leadership is unquestionably integrity. Without it, no real success is possible no matter whether it is on a section gang, a football field, in an army, or in an office

Puritanism: The haunting fear that someone,

somewhere, may be happy.

I will not allow my life to be narrowed down.

I will not bow down to the petty restrictions of society.

Let us raise a standard to

which the wise and honest can repair;

the rest is in the hands of God.

The best way to preserve liberty is to be vigilant.

Be miserable

Or motivate yourself.

Whatever has to be done,

it's always your choice.

Our Declaration of Independence was held sacred by

all and thought to include all; but now,

to aid in making the bondage of the Negro universal and eternal,

it is assailed, sneered at, construed, hawked at, and torn, till,

if its framers could rise from their graves,

they could not at all recognize it.

Happiness cannot be pursued;

it must ensue.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed

everything save our modes of thinking and

we thus drift toward unparalleled catastrophe.

I’m not saying I’m a great actor,

but I’m a hard worker.

People with great gifts are easy to find,

but symmetrical and balanced ones never.

Humanity appreciates truth about as much as a squirrel appreciates silver.

Some people live an entire lifetime and wonder

if they have ever made a difference in the world,

but the Marines don’t have that problem.

You've got to be a bit of a pirate in this world.

War is never a lasting solution for any problem.

How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged,

sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong.

Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

What a computer is to me is the most remarkable tool

that we have ever come up with.