Yogi Berra:
“It ain’t over till it’s over.”
“It’s deja vu all over again.”
“Never answer an anonymous letter.”
“We made too many wrong mistakes.”
“You can observe a lot by watching.”
“The future ain’t what it used to be.”
“If you don’t know where you are going, you might wind up someplace else.”
“Baseball is 90 percent mental. The other half is physical.”
“When you come to a fork in the road, take it.”
“Cure sometimes, treat often, and comfort always.” Hippocrates
“The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.” Sir William Osler
“Showing up is 80% of life.” Charles Krauthammer
“Success is going from failure to failure without a loss of enthusiasm.” Winston Churchill
“Success is how high you bounce when you hit bottom.” George S. Patton
“A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.” Winston Churchill
“The impossible only takes a little longer.” Albert Einstein
“If there is no struggle, there is no progress.” Frederick Douglass
“I’m a great believer in luck, and I find the harder I work the more I have of it.” Thomas Jefferson
“Don’t live down to expectations. Go out there and do something remarkable.” Wendy Wasserstein
“The way you treat yourself sets the standard for others.” Sonya Friedman
“If you put a small value upon yourself, rest assured that the world will not raise your price.” Author Unknown
“You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.” Michael Jordan
“Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total, of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.” Robert F. Kennedy
“Many of life’s failures are people who did not realize how close they were to succeed when they gave up.” Thomas Edison
“Put your future in good hands – your own.” Author Unknown
“Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.” Eleanor Roosevelt
“A person you excuse from any genuine challenge is a person you do not truly respect.” John McWhorter
“It’s not whether you get knocked down, it’s whether you get up.” Vince Lombardi
“The man on top of the mountain didn’t fall there.” Vince Lombardi
“I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.” Frederick Douglass
“For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.” H.L. Menken
“The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them.” Albert Einstein
“Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results.” Albert Einstein
“The difference between genius and stupidity is that genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein
“If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.” Abraham Maslow
“An education isn’t how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you know. It’s being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don’t.” Anatole France
“Integrity is doing the right thing, even when no one is watching.” C.S. Lewis
“We may have all come on different ships, but we’re in the same boat now.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: ‘We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal.’” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Heresy is another word for freedom of thought.” Graham Greene
“No one is more hated than he who speaks the truth.” Plato
“First, they ignore you. Then they ridicule you. Then they attack you. Then you win.” Mahatma Gandhi
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.” Winston Churchill
“Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.” H. L. Mencken
“Even if you are a minority of one, the truth is the truth.” Mahatma Gandhi
“As to the evil which results from a censorship, it is impossible to measure it, for it is impossible to tell where it ends.” Jeremy Bentham
“Ideas are more powerful than guns. We would not let our enemies have guns; why should we let them have ideas?” Josef Stalin
“It is easier to believe a lie that one has heard a thousand times than to believe a fact that one has never heard before.” Robert S. Lynd
“If you don’t read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.” Mark Twain
“A lie told often enough becomes the truth.” Vladimir Lenin
“I am a firm believer in the people. …The great point is to bring them the real facts.” Abraham Lincoln
“A lie cannot live.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Publicity is justly commended as a remedy for social and industrial diseases. Sunlight is said to be the best of disinfectants; electric light the most efficient policeman.” Justice Louis Brandeis
“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others”. George Orwell
“Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.” Frederick Douglass
“All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.” Adlai Stevenson
“When ‘I’ replaced with ‘We’, even the illness becomes wellness.” Malcolm X
“If you do not take an interest in your government you are doomed to live under the rule of fools.” Plato
“The price of apathy towards public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.” Plato
“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“One man with courage is a majority.” Thomas Jefferson
“It does not take a majority to prevail … but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men.” Sam Adams
“A nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves.” Edward Murrow
“Just because you do not take an interest in politics, doesn’t mean politics won’t take an interest in you.” Pericles (430 B.C.)
“The power to tax is the power to destroy.” Chief Justice John Marshall
“I 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.” Winston Churchill
“No man’s life, liberty, or property is safe while the legislature is in session.” Mark Twain
“A government big enough to give you everything you want, is strong enough to take everything you have.” Gerald Ford
“Let us not seek the Republican answer nor the Democratic answer but the right answer.” John F. Kennedy
“All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.” Thomas Jefferson
“Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction.” H.L. Menken
“Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.” P.J. O’Rourke
“Government is a disease masquerading as its own cure.” L. Neil Smith
“The more numerous the laws, the more corrupt the government.” Tacitus
“When small men begin to cast big shadows, it means the sun is about to set.” Lin Yutang
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.” Thomas Jefferson
“When the people fear the government, there is tyranny. When the government fears the people, there is liberty.” Thomas Jefferson
“The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.” Thomas Jefferson
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. …To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
C.S. Lewis
“The most common way people give up power is by thinking they don’t have any.” Alice Walker
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly and applying all the wrong remedies.” Groucho Marx
“We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.” Aesop
“Every government degenerates when trusted to the rulers of the people alone. The people themselves are its only safe depositories.” Thomas Jefferson
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” Abraham Lincoln
“It is incumbent on every generation to pay its own debts as it goes. A principle which if acted on would save one-half the wars of the world.” Thomas Jefferson
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” James Madison
“My reading of history convinces me that most bad government results from too much government.” Thomas Jefferson
“A democratic government is the only one in which those who vote for a tax can escape the obligation to pay it.” Alexis deToqueville
“To compel a man to subsidize with his taxes the propagation of ideas which he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” Thomas Jefferson
“Do not blame Caesar, blame the people of Rome who have so enthusiastically acclaimed and adored him and rejoiced in their loss of freedom and danced in his path and gave him triumphal processions. Blame the people who hail him when he speaks in the Forum of ‘the new, wonderful, good society’ which shall now be Rome’s, interpreted to mean: more money, more ease, more security, more living fault at the expense of the industrious.” Cicero
“Democracy is two wolves and a lamb voting on what to have for lunch. Liberty is a well-armed lamb contesting the vote.” Benjamin Franklin
“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.” George Bernard Shaw
“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.” Abraham Lincoln
“Don’t interfere with anything in the Constitution. That must be maintained, for it is the only safeguard of our liberties.” Abraham Lincoln
“The perfect bureaucrat everywhere is the man who manages to make no decisions and escape all responsibility.” Brooks Atkinson
“Democracy and socialism have nothing in common but one word, equality. But notice the difference: while democracy seeks equality in liberty, socialism seeks equality in restraint and servitude.” Alexis deToqueville
“Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy — its’ inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill
“The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of the blessings. The inherent blessing of socialism is the equal sharing of misery.” Winston Churchill
“We cannot expect Americans to jump from capitalism to Communism, but we can assist their elected leaders in giving Americans small doses of socialism until they suddenly awake to find they have Communism.” Nikita Khrushchev
“The education of all children, from the moment that they can get along without a mother’s care, shall be in state institutions at state expense.” Karl Marx
“Give me four years to teach the children and the seed I have sown will never be uprooted.” Vladimir Lenin
“Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.” Josef Stalin
“He who gives up freedom for safety deserves neither.” Benjamin Franklin
“A generation which ignores history has no past and no future.” Robert A. Heinlein
“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Shallow understanding from people of good will is more frustrating than absolute misunderstanding from people of ill will.” Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say that the Constitution was made to guard the people against the dangers of good intentions. There are men in all ages who mean to govern well, but they mean to govern. They promise to be good masters, but they mean to be masters.” Daniel Webster
“What shall we do with the Negro?” I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing withus! Your doing with us has already played the mischief with us. Do nothing with us! If the apples will not remain on the tree of their own strength, if they are wormeaten at the core, if they are early ripe and disposed to fall, let them fall! I am not for tying or fastening them on the tree in any way, except by nature’s plan, and if they will not stay there, let them fall. And if the Negro cannot stand on his own legs, let him fall also. All I ask is, give him a chance to stand on his own legs! Let him alone!” Frederick Douglass, July 4, 1852
“Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will. Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them, and these will continue till they have been resisted with either words or blows, or with both. The limits of tyrants are proscribed by the endurance of those whom they suppress.” Frederick Douglass
“The essential take-home lesson from Mumbai, the historic lesson from Mumbai, is that we are on our own. Our destiny is in no one’s hands but our own. Our greatest achievements have come when we recognized that we must trust in ourselves. The greatest calamities come when we trust in others to save us. That is what it means to be free. To look inside ourselves and find what is valuable and good in ourselves and what must be defended. Depending on others is a form of slavery. It is self-awareness of worth and valor that separates a free person from a slave.” Caroline Glick
“When a Negro girl learns to cook, to wash dishes, to sew, to write a book, or a Negro boy learns to groom horses, or to grow sweet potatoes, or to produce butter, or to build a house, or to be able to practise medicine, as well or better than some one else, they will be rewarded regardless of race or colour. In the long run, the world is going to have the best, and any difference in race, religion, or previous history will not long keep the world from what it wants. Booker T. Washington
“I think that the whole future of my race hinges on the question as to whether or not it can make itself of such indispensable value that the people in the town and the state where we reside will feel that our presence is necessary to the happiness and well-being of the community. No man who continues to add something to the material, intellectual, and moral well-being of the place in which he lives is long left without proper reward. This is a great human law which cannot be permanently nullified.” Booker T. Washington
“There is a class of colored people who make a business of keeping the troubles, the wrongs, and the hardships of the Negro race before the public. Some of these people do not want the Negro to lose his grievances, because they do not want to lose their jobs. There is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well.” Booker T. Washington
“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.” Albert Einstein
“There is no vaccine against stupidity.” Albert Einstein
“The more I study science, the more I believe in God.” Albert Einstein
“Be a voice, not an echo.” Albert Einstein
“Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.” Albert Einstein
“Thinking is hard work; that’s why so few do it.” Albert Einstein
“I’m more interested in the future than in the past, because the future is where I intend to live.” Albert Einstein
“Coincidence is God’s way of remaining anonymous.” Albert Einstein
“The mind that opens to a new idea never returns to its original size.” Albert Einstein
“Don’t listen to their words, fix your attention on their deeds.” Albert Einstein
“Never do anything against conscience even if the state demands it.” Albert Einstein
“Success = 1 part work + 1 part play + 1 part keep y9our mouth shut.” Albert Einstein