Quotes by American Authors - Page 140

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.
Tallulah Bankhead
I'm not afraid to die. I just don't want to be there when it happens.
Woody Allen
I want to die like my grandfather died . . . peacefully in his sleep. Not like the other three people screaming in the car.
Joey Adams
Planned obsolescence isn't a new idea - God always used it with people.
Robert Orben
Everybody's gotta die sometime. That's life.
Archie Bunker
Ninety percent of living is just showing up.
Woody Allen
Why this fuss about death? Use your imagination try to visualize a world without death.
Charlotte Gilman
My mother always said that every time you do a good deed here on Earth you're storing up a treasure in heaven. Which means Mother Teresa's probably got some beachfront property up there and I'm up to a box of Milk Duds and a Pez dispenser.
Robert G. Lee
I won't mind dying if I can tell St. Peter a joke he hasn't heard.
Red Skelton
The trouble with life in the fast lane is that you get to the other end in an awful hurry.
John Jensen
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
Mark Twain
I don't want to tell you how much insurance I carry with Prudential. All I can say is: When I go they go!
Jack Benny
I don't want to achieve immortality through my work I want to achieve it through not dying.
Woody Allen
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
Garrison Keillor
If anything happens to me tell every woman I've ever gone with I was talking about her at the end. That way they'll have to reevaluate me.
Albert Brooks
1 have always in my own thought summed up individual liberty and business liberty and every other kind of liberty in the phrase that is common in the sporting world "A free field and no favor."
Woodrow Wilson
Liberty and Union now and for ever one and inseparable!
Daniel Webster
Liberty is the only thing you cannot have unless you are willing to give it to others.
William Allen White
Give me your tired your poor Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these the homeless tempest tossed to me: I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus
The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time.
Thomas Jefferson
Give me liberty or give me death.
Patrick Henry
Those who would give up essential liberty to purchase a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
Benjamin Franklin
Equality is the result of human organization. We are not born equal.
Hannah Arendt
All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'
John F Kennedy
The world must be made safe for democracy. Its peace must be planted upon the tested foundations of political liberty. We have no selfish ends to serve. We desire no conquest no domination. We seek no indemnities for ourselves no material compensation for the sacrifices we shall freely give. We are but one of the champions of the rights of mankind. We shall be satisfied when those rights have been made as secure as the faith and freedom of nations can make them.
Woodrow Wilson
Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.
Emma Lazarus
The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theatre and causing a panic... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe in order to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
John F Kennedy
Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must like men undergo the fatigue of supporting it.
Thomas Paine
If liberty has any meaning it means freedom to improve.
Philip Wylie
The right to be heard does not automatically include the right to be taken seriously.
Hubert Humphrey
Liberty as it is conceived by current opinion has nothing inherent about it it is a sort of gift or trust bestowed on the individual by the state pending good behaviour.
Mary McCarthy
There can be no real freedom without the freedom to fail.
Eric Hoffer
By physical liberty I mean the right to do anything which does not interfere with the happiness of another. By intellectual liberty I mean the right to think wrong.
Robert G. Ingersoll
My definition of a free society is a society where it is safe to be unpopular.
Adlai Stevenson
Let the word go forth from this time and place to friend and foe alike that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans - born in this century tempered by war disciplined by a hard and bitter peace proud of our ancient heritage - and unwilling to witness or permit the slow undoing of those human rights to which this nation has always been committed and to which we are committed today at home and around the world. Let every nation know whether it wishes us well or ill that we shall pay any price bear any burden meet any hardship support any friend oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty. All this will not be finished in the first 100 days. Nor will it be finished in the first 1 000 days nor in the life of this administration nor even perhaps in our lifetime on this planet. But let us begin. Now the trumpet summons us again - not as a call to bear arms though arms we need - not as a call to battle though embattled we are - but a call to bear the burden of a long twilight struggle year in and year out "rejoicing in hope patient in tribulation"- a struggle against the common enemies of man: tyranny poverty disease and war itself. And so my fellow Americans ask not what your country can do for you - ask what you can do for your country . My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F Kennedy
Liberty is always dangerous - but it is the safest thing we have.
Harry Emerson Fosdick
The spirit of liberty is the spirit which is not too sure that it is right.
Learned Hand
It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have frequently been forged in cases involving not very nice people.
Felix Frankfurter
These are the times that try men's souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will in this crisis shrink from the service of their country but he that stands it now deserves the love and thanks of man and woman. Tyranny like hell is not easily conquered yet we have this consolation with us that the harder the conflict the more glorious the triumph.
Thomas Paine
Yes 'n' how many years can some people exist before they're allowed to be free? Yes. 'n' how many times can a man turn his head pretending he just doesn't see? The answer my friend is blowin' in the wind.
Bob Dylan
We look forward to a world founded upon four essential human freedoms. The first is freedom of speech and expression - everywhere in the world. The second is freedom of every person to worship God in his own way everywhere in the world. The third is freedom from want...everywhere in the world. The fourth is freedom from fear... anywhere in the world.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
I am not so much concerned with the right of everyone to say anything he pleases as I am about our need as self-governing people to hear everything relevant.
John F Kennedy
A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
Carter Glass
I have received no more than one or two letters in my life that were worth the postage.
Henry David Thoreau
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
If you shoot at a king you must kill him.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To lead means to direct and to exact and no man dares do either - he might be unpopular. What authority we are given now is a trinity: the grin the generality and God (the Word).
Marya Mannes
A leader may symbolize and express what is best in his people like Pericles or what is worst like Hitler but he cannot successfully express what is only in his heart and not in theirs.
Charles Yost
The reward of a general is not a bigger tent - but command.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
When you come into the presence of a leader of men you know that you have come into the presence of fire - that it is best not uncautiously to touch that man - that there is something that makes it dangerous to cross him.
Woodrow Wilson
With a good conscience our only sure reward with history the final judge of our deeds let us go forth to lead the land we love asking His blessing and His help but knowing that here on earth God's work must truly be our own.
John F Kennedy
It is a characteristic of all movements and crusades that the psychopathic element rises to the top.
Robert Lindner
Some folks can look so busy doing nothin' that they seem indispensable.
Kin Hubbard
The lust for comfort that stealthy thing that enters the house a guest and then becomes a host and then a master.
Kahlil Gibran
Most good lawyers live well work hard and die poor.
Daniel Webster
The laws sometimes sleep but never die.
Law Maxim
The execution of the laws is more important than the making of them.
Thomas Jefferson
If the law is upheld only by government officials then all law is at an end.
Herbert Hoover
I know no method to secure the repeal of bad or obnoxious laws so effective as their stringent execution.
Ulysses S. Grant