Quotations Set 16

1. There are some that only employ words for the purpose of disguising their thoughts. - Voltaire, philosopher (1694-1778)

2. A statesman is a politician who places himself at the service of the nation. A politician is a statesman who places the nation at his service. - Georges Pompidou, President of France (1911-74)

3. Compassion will cure more sins than condemnation. - Henry Ward Beecher, preacher and writer (1813-1887)

4. There are two problems in my life. The political ones are insoluble and the economic ones are incomprehensible. - Sir Alec Douglas-Home, British Prime Minister

5. If you have knowledge, let others light their candles in it. - Margaret Fuller, author (1810-1850)

6. '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]

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

8. 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)

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

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

11. 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- )

12. 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

13. 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)

14. 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)

15. 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)

16. 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

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

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

19. 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)

20. 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)

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