Quotations Set 12

1. People who are willing to give up freedom for the sake of short term security, deserve neither freedom nor security. - Benjamin Franklin, statesman, author, and inventor (1706-1790)

2. Whenever you hear a man speak of his love for his country, it is a sign that he expects to be paid for it. - H. L. Mencken

3. Language is the apparel in which your thoughts parade in public. Never clothe them in vulgar and shoddy attire. - Dr. George W. Crane

4. Never is liberty more easily lost than when we think we are defending it. - Ben Chifley (Australian Prime Minister 1945-49)

5. We must believe in luck. For how else can we explain the success of those we don't like? - Jean Cocteau, author and painter (1889-1963)

6. I d-d-don't care who's got the n-n-numbers brother, as long as I g-g-get to c-c-count the v-v-v-votes. - Stammering Senator Patrick Kennelly, when told before an ALP Caucus meeting that the Left had the numbers (circa 1950s)

7. You can discover what your enemy fears most by observing the means he uses to frighten you. - Eric Hoffer, philosopher and author (1902-1983)

8. In order that people may be happy in their work, these three things are needed: they must be fit for it; they must not do too much of it; and they must have a sense of success in it. - John Ruskin, author, art critic, and social reformer (1819-1900)

9. The man who is a pessimist before forty-eight knows too much; if he is an optimist after it, he knows too little. - Mark Twain, author (1835-1910)

10. We are so vain that we even care for the opinion of those we don't care for. - Marie Ebner von Eschenbach, writer (1830-1916)

11. The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas. - Christopher Morley, writer (1890-1957)

12. 'Conversation', n. A fair to the display of the minor mental commodities, each exhibitor being too intent upon the arrangement of his own wares to observe those of his neighbour. - Ambrose Bierce, writer (1842-1914) [The Devil's Dictionary]

13. Patriotism is often an arbitrary veneration of real estate above principles. - George Jean Nathan, author and editor (1882-1958)

14. In everyone's life, at some time, our inner fire goes out. It is then burst into flame by an encounter with another human being. We should all be thankful for those people who rekindle the inner spirit. - Albert Schweitzer, philosopher, physician, and musician (1875-1965)

15. I wasn't lucky. I deserved it. - Margaret Thatcher, aged nine, after receiving a school prize.

16. It is dangerous to be right when the government is wrong. - Voltaire, philosopher (384-322 BC)

17. As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls. - Matt Cartmill, anthropology professor and author (1943- )

18. In politics, if you want anything said, ask a man - if you want anything done, ask a woman. - Margaret Thatcher, British Prime Minister, 1979-90

19. To resist the frigidity of old age one must combine the body, the mind and the heart - and to keep them in parallel vigor one must exercise, study and love. - Karl Viktor von Bonstetten, author (1745-1832)

20. If mankind minus one were of one opinion, then mankind is no more justified in silencing the one than the one - if he had the power - would be justified in silencing mankind. - John Stuart Mill, philosopher and economist (1806-1873)

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