Famous Quotes & Sayings

Benjamin Rush

Liberty without virtue would be no blessing to us.

Bertrand Russell

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Calvin Coolidge

Because of what America is and what America has done, a firmer courage, a higher hope, inspires the heart of all humanity.

Abraham Lincoln

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Aristotle

The basis of a democratic state is liberty

Alexander Hamilton

For my part, I sincerely esteem the Constitution, a system which without the finger of God, never could have been suggested and agreed upon by such a diversity of interests.

Abraham Lincoln

Government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the Earth.

David Letterman

The 4th of July combines the two things Americans love most in one day: alcohol and explosives.

Albert Camus

A free press can, of course, be good or bad, but, most certainly without freedom, the press will never be anything but bad.

Tim Henman

Our media is possibly the worst in the world.

George Shinn

Rod said that (Scott) had a problem with one of the players for something Byron said to the media.

Micah Knorr

I'm here to win a punting competition, not a media competition,

Bill Sienkiewicz

Nothing is really media driven or committee driven, so you can actually just produce something

Bill Cosby

Let me say this: I only expect the black media to uphold the standards of excellence in journalism and when you do that, you have to go in with a neutral mind.

Bianca Jagger

I find it disturbing that the media keeps referring to my marriage, since I got divorced in 1979. But the media never wants to let me forget.

Carrie Fisher

I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.

Carl Sagan

One trend that bothers me is the glorification of stupidity, that the media is reassuring people it's alright not to know anything. That to me is far more dangerous than a little pornography on the Internet.

Bethany Hamilton

Learning how to deal with people and their reactions to my life is one of the most challenging things... people staring at me, people asking rude questions, dealing with media, stuff like that.

Anthony Fauci

There cannot be any impediment to science that will ultimately be good to the general public.

Elizabeth Bishop

Something needn't be large to be good.

David Nicholls

Be good. Do something good.

Kurt Vonnegut

Pretend to be good always and even God will be fooled.

Donald Trump

If Russia and the United States got along well and went after ISIS, that would be good.

Donald Trump

The one thing I would like to do is be able to drop 15, 20 pounds. It would be good.

Dodie Smith

I wanted so terribly to be good to him.

Brigham Young

Learn to be good for something.

Aya Cash

You have to be kinder to yourself, because it's a part of being good.