The price of greatness is responsibility. |
We must never cease to proclaim in fearless tones the great principles of freedom and the rights of man which are the joint inheritance of the English-speaking world and which through Magna Carta, the Bill of Rights, the Habeas Corpus, Trial by Jury, and the English common law, find their most famous expression in the American Declaration of Independence. |
We contend that for a nation to try to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle. |
The main vice of capitalism is the uneven distribution of prosperity. The main vice of socialism is the even distribution of misery. |
This truth may be unfashionable, unpalatable, no doubt unpopular, but, if it is the truth, the story of mankind shows that war was universal and unceasing for millions of years before armaments were invented or armies organized. Indeed, the lucid intervals of peace and order only occurred in human history after armaments in the hands of strong governments have come into being, and civilization in every age has been nursed only in cradles guarded by superior weapons and superior discipline. |
Man will occasionally stumble over the truth, but most times he will pick himself up and carry on. |
Never abandon life. There is a way out of everything except death. |
Today we may say aloud before an awe-struck world: 'We are still masters of our fate. We are still captain of our souls.' |
If you have 10,000 regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. |
A nation that forgets its past is doomed to repeat it. |
Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees all others. |
The empires of the future are the empires of the mind. |
Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because it has been said it is the quality which guarantees all others. |
Schools have not necessarily much to do with education... they are mainly institutions of control, where basic habits must be inculcated in the young. Education is quite different and has little place in school. |
In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies. |
The inherent vice of capitalism is the uneven division of blessings, while the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal division of misery. |
The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. |
You don't make the poor richer by making the rich poorer. |
History will be kind to me for I intend to write it. |
Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance and the gospel of envy. |
