Famous Quotes & Sayings

Goldwin Smith

It is needless to say how great has been the influence of the doctrine of Evolution, or rather perhaps of the method of investigation to which it has given birth, upon the study of history, especially the history of institutions.

Gore Vidal

It is essential to naturalist doctrine that literature, to be good, must, finally, be the author's experience worked out literally.

Robert Ingersoll

Heresy is what the minority believe, it is the real name given by the powerful to the doctrine of the weak

William Wilberforce

I continually find it necessary to guard against that natural love of wealth and grandeur which prompts us always, when we come to apply our general doctrine to our own case, to claim an exception.

Theodore Roosevelt

I wish to preach not the doctrine of ignoble ease, but the doctrine of strenuous life

Blaise Pascal

According to the doctrine of chance, you ought to put yourself to the trouble of searching for the truth; for if you die without worshiping the True Cause, you are lost. "But," say you, "if He had wished me to worship Him, He would have left me signs of His will." He has done so; but you neglect them. Seek them, therefore; it is well worth it.

Buddha

My doctrine is not a doctrine but just a vision. I have not given you any set rules, I have not given you a system.

Bible Bible

So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitanes, which thing I hate.

Ben Jonson

There is no doctrine will do good where nature is wanting.

Bob Stein

Our politics may be Republican, ... but that's just a temporary condition.

Moira Kelly

I think to be in politics you have to have the taste for blood on that.

Michael Bennett

I think one of the things that we are facing right now is that we've stopped listening to each other in our politics.

Robin Wright

I don't know enough about politics. I am out of the loop.

Lena Headey

If I was into politics, I would be rich.

Elliott Abrams

Four years is a long time in politics.

Rob Lowe

I - you know, I loved politics more as a younger man.

Richard J. Roberts

There is need for more science in politics and less politics in science.

Al Gore

That we can be e pluribus Unum - out of one, many

Berkeley Breathed

I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.

Charles Peguy

Tyranny is always better organized than freedom.

Calvin Coolidge

It is much more important to kill bad bills than to pass good ones.

Abraham Lincoln

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich. You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

Elbert Hubbard

We are not punished for our sins, but by them.

Alexis de Tocqueville

It's not an endlessly expanding list of rights - the "right" to education, the "right" to health care, the "right" to food and housing. That's not freedom, that's dependency. Those aren't rights, those are the rations of slavery - hay and a barn for human cattle.

Ludwig von Mises

Action is an attempt to substitute a more satisfactory state of affairs for a less satisfactory one. We call such a willfully induced alteration an exchange.

Clint Eastwood

Libertarian: everyone leaves everyone else alone

Clint Eastwood

I would like to be interpreted as a liberal libertarian, like leave everybody alone and let them do their own thing.