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96 quotes

SortEditorial Year Length

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Political literature

Whether ours shall continue to be a Government of laws and not of men is now for Congress and ultimately the American people.

1973

★ 0.9

Interview · Magazine

There's a helluva distance between wise-cracking and wit. Wit has truth in it; wise-cracking is simply calisthenics with words.

1956

★ 1.0

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open, and that it may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

New York Times Company v. Sullivan · 1964

★ 1.0

Interview · TV program

One of the great mistakes is to judge policies and programs by their intentions rather than their results.

Milton Friedman

1975

★ 1.0

Speech · Political speech

Every citizen owes to the country a vigilant watch and close scrutiny of its public servants and a fair and reasonable estimate of their fidelity and usefulness.

Grover Cleveland

First Inaugural Address of Grover Cleveland · 1885

★ 1.1

I don't think you can really put a monetary value on a painting.

1968

★ 1.2

Award acceptance speech · Speech

There is nothing in our material world more beautiful than the book.

2010

★ 1.2

Speech · Political speech

Let us not be deceived-we are today in the midst of a cold war. Our enemies are to be found abroad and at home. Let us not forget this: our unrest is the heart of their success.

1947

★ 1.7

Free will and determinism... Are like a game of cards. The hand that is dealt you represents determinism. The way you play your hand represents free will.

1951

★ 1.7

Autobiography and memoir

I have had a good many more uplifting thoughts, creative and expansive visions-while soaking in comfortable baths or drying myself after bracing showers-in well-equipped American bathrooms than I have ever had in any cathedral.

1956

★ 1.7

Obiturary · Newspaper

A political leader must keep looking over his shoulder all the time to see if the boys are still there. If they aren't still there, he's no longer a political leader.

The New York Times

★ 1.7

Philosophical literature

To own a bit of ground, to scratch it with a hoe, to plant seeds, and watch their renewal of life-this is the commonest delight of the race, the most satisfactory thing a man can do.

Charles Dudley Warner

1870

★ 1.8

There are two things to aim at in life: first, to get what you want; and, after that, to enjoy it. Only the wisest of mankind achieve the second.

Logan Pearsall Smith

1931

★ 1.8

Thank heavens, the sun has gone in, and I don't have to go out and enjoy it.

Logan Pearsall Smith

1931

★ 1.8

There is more felicity on the far side of baldness than young men can possibly imagine.

Logan Pearsall Smith

1933

★ 1.8

It may be that there is nothing more demoralizing than a small but adequate income.

1946

★ 1.8

My father was a slave, and my people died to build this country, and I'm going to stay right here and have a part of it, just like you. And no Fascist-minded people like you will drive me from it. Is that clear?

1956

★ 1.8

War · Historical literature

The wars fought by human beings are stimulated as a rule primarily by the same instincts as the voracity of the sea slug.

1962

★ 1.8

Autobiography and memoir

You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

1970

★ 1.8

Supreme Court opinion · Legal opinion · Legal writing

Our Nation has had a long and unfortunate history of sex discrimination...rationalized by an attitude of "romantic paternalism" which, in practical effect, put women not on a pedestal, but in a cage.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

Frontiero v. Richardson · 1973

★ 1.8

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