“Even if everyone elseIs not doing good,I alone will.Even if everyone elseis doing wrong,I alone will not.”
Courageous feeling
Courageous Quotes — page 244 of 1106
“I'm not afraid of nothing, I just like the challenge, and I love being here.”
“Today the primary threat to the liberties of the American people comes not from communism, foreign tyrants or dictators. It comes from the tendency on our own shores to centralize power, to trust bureaucracies rather than people.”
“Impatient people, according to Bacon, are like the bees, and kill themselves in stinging others.”
“As you get older, it gets harder to get rid of that belly but I do a lot of cardio to try to stay in shape.”
“Believe in no other God than the one who insists on justice and equality among men.”
“The power under the Constitution will always be in the people. It is entrusted for certain defined purposes, and for a certain limited period, to representatives of their own choosing; and whenever it is executed contrary to their interest, or not agreeable to their wishes, their servants can, and undoubtedly will, be recalled.”
“Freedom and Property Rights are inseparable. You can't have one without the other.”
“Each year India and China produce four million graduates compared with just over 250,000 in Britain.”
“After the collapse of socialism, capitalism remained without a rival. This unusual situation unleashed its greedy and - above all - its suicidal power. The belief is now that everything - and everyone - is fair game.”
“Control of thought is more important for governments that are free and popular than for despotic and military states. The logic is straightforward: a despotic state can control its domestic enemies by force, but as the state loses this weapon, other devices are required to prevent the ignorant masses from interfering with public affairs, which are none of their business… the public are to be observers, not participants, consumers of ideology as well as products.”
“If we do not act together, we will surely perish.”
“When people make a contract with the devil and give him an air-conditioned office to work in, he doesn't go back home easily.”
“Everybody has asked the question, ... 'What shall we do with the Negro?' I have had but one answer from the beginning. Do nothing with us! You're 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, ... 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.”
“You have to take power. No one gives it.”
“Let us render the tyrant no aid; let us not hold the light by which he can trace the footprints of our flying brother.”
“The marriage institution cannot exist among slaves, and one sixth of the population of democratic America is denied it's privileges by the law of the land. What is to be thought of a nation boasting of its liberty, boasting of it's humanity, boasting of its Christianity, boasting of its love of justice and purity, and yet having within its own borders three millions of persons denied by law the right of marriage?”
“Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.”
“Those are my enemies: they want to overthrow and to construct nothing themselves. They say: "All that is worthless"--and want to create no value themselves.”
“What does not destroy me, makes me stronger.”