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|  Lord Acton | Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is the highest political end. | |
| Lord Acton | Freedom degenerates unless it has to struggle in its own
defence. | |
| Lord Acton | And remember, where you have a concentration of power in a few hands, all too frequently men with the mentality of gangsters get control. History has proven that. All power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely. | |
| Douglas Adams | Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so. | |
| Franklin P. Adams | Nothing is more responsible for the good old days than a bad memory. | |
| Henry Brooks Adams | Politics, as a practise, whatever its professions, has always been the systematic organization of hatreds. | |
| John Quincy Adams | Always stand on principle, even if you stand alone. | |
| Aeschylus | Time as he grows old teaches all things. | |
| Aeschylus | Only when man's life comes to its end in prosperity can one call that man happy. | |
| Aesop | It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. | |
| Aesop | The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. | |
| Aesop | The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. | |
| Aesop | The gods help them that help themselves. | |
| Aesop | Any excuse will serve a tyrant. | |
| Aesop | Familiarity breeds contempt. | |
| Aesop | Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. | |
| Aesop | Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. | |
| Aesop | Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. | |
| Aesop | Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. | |
| Aesop | We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. | |
| Aesop | While I see many hoof marks going in, I see none coming out. It is easier to get into the enemy's toils than out again. | |
| Aesop | Better be wise by the misfortunes of others than by your own. | |
| Aesop | Union gives strength. | |
| Aesop | I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. | |
| Aesop | Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth. | |
| Aesop | Beware lest you lose the substance by grasping at the shadow. | |
| Aesop | A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. | |
| Aesop | Appearances often are deceiving. | |
| Aesop | Slow and steady wins the race. | |
| Aesop | We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. | |
| Aesop | No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. | |
| Aesop | People often grudge others what they cannot enjoy themselves. | |
| Aesop | Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only to find - nothing. | |
| Publius Terentius Afer | In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. | |
| Publius Terentius Afer | Moderation in all things. | |
| Publius Terentius Afer | Fortune helps the brave. | |
| African Proverb | Don't look where you fall, but where you slipped. | |
| African Proverb | Only a fool tests the depth of the water with both feet. | |
| Herbert Sebastien Agar | The truth that makes men free is for the most part the truth which men prefer not to hear. | |
| Thomas Bailey Aldrich | The possession of unlimited power will make a despot of almost any man. There is a possible Nero in the gentlest human creature that walks. | |
| Mohammed Ali | The man who views the world at 50 the same way he did at 20 has wasted 30 years of his life. | |
| Dante Alighieri | Mankind is at its best when it is most free. This will be clear if we grasp the principle of liberty. We must recall that the basic principle is freedom of choice, which saying many have on their lips but few in their minds. | |
| Woody Allen | The lion and the calf shall lie down together, but the calf won't get much sleep. | |
| Angolan Proverb | The one who throws the stone forgets; the one who is hit remembers forever. | |
| Saint Thomas Aquinas | Three things are necessary for the salvation of man: to know what he ought to believe; to know what he ought to desire; and to know what he ought to do. | |
| Aristotle | We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit. | |
| Aristotle | What is common to many is least taken care of, for all men have greater regard for what is their own than what they possess in common with others. | |
| Aristotle | The high-minded man must care more for the truth than for what people think. | |
| Matthew Arnold | The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. | |
| Isaac Asimov | If knowledge can create problems, it is not through ignorance that we can solve them. | |
| Berthold Auerbach | Liberty is from God; liberties, from the devil. | |
| Marcus Aurelius | The object of life is not to be on the side of the majority, but to escape finding oneself in the ranks of the insane. | |
| Marcus Aurelius | He who has seen present things has seen all, both everything which has taken place from all eternity and everything which will be for time without end; for all things are of one kin and of one form. | |
| Richard Bach | There are no mistakes. The events we bring upon ourselves, no matter how unpleasant, are necessary in order to learn what we need to learn; whatever steps we take, they're necessary to reach the places we've chosen to go. | |
| Richard Bach | There is no such thing as a problem without a gift for you in its hands. You seek problems because you need their gifts. | |
| Francis Bacon | ...for that nothing doth more hurt in a state, than that cunning men pass for wise. | |
| Francis Bacon | Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper. | |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Imagination was given to man to compensate him for what he is not; a sense of humor to console him for what he is. | |
| Sir Francis Bacon | Knowledge is power. | |
| Sir Francis Bacon | If money be not thy servant, it will be thy master. The covetous man cannot so properly be said to possess wealth, as that may be said to possess him. | |
| Sir Francis Bacon | One of the Seven [wise men of Greece] was wont to say: That laws were like cobwebs, where the small flies are caught and the great break through. | |
| James Baldwin | Nothing is more desirable than to be released from an affliction, but nothing is more frightening than to be divested of a crutch. | |
| Frederic Bastiat | Everyone wants to live at the expense of the state. They forget that the state lives at the expense of everyone. | |
| Charles Baudelaire | The devil’s best trick is to persuade you that he doesn’t exist! | |
| Rev. Henry Ward Beecher | There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books. | |
| Rev. Henry Ward Beecher | Make men large and strong and tyranny will bankrupt itself in making shackles for them. | |
| Roy T. Bennett | Pursue what catches your heart, not what catches your eyes. | |
| Henri-Louis Bergson | Think like a man of action, act like a man of thought. | |
| Yogi Berra | If the world were perfect, it wouldn't be. | |
| Ambrose Bierce | The gambling known as business looks with austere disfavor upon the business known as gambling. | |
| Ambrose Bierce | Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. | |
| Ambrose Bierce | Optimism: The doctrine that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, everything good, especially the bad, and everything right that is wrong. ... It is hereditary, but fortunately not contagious. | |
| Ambrose Bierce | The hardest tumble a man can make is to fall over his own bluff. | |
| Josh Billings | Honesty is the rarest wealth anyone can possess, and yet all the honesty in the world ain't lawful tender for a loaf of bread. | |