Quotes 1201 till 1220 of 1714.
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The biggest problem is not to let people accept new ideas, but to let them forget the old ones.
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The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget.
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The cemetery of the victims of human cruelty in our century is extended to include yet another vast cemetery, that of the unborn.
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The child who desires education will be bettered by it; the child who dislikes it disgraced.
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The childhood shows the man, as morning shows the day.
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The Christian ministry is the worst of all trades, but the best of all professions.
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The comfortable estate of widowhood is the only hope that keeps up a wife's spirits.
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The common practice of keeping up appearances with society is a mere selfish struggle of the vain with the vain.
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The conspicuously wealthy turn up urging the character building values of the privation of the poor.
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The Constitution gives every American the inalienable right to make a damn fool of himself.
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The conventional view serves to protect us from the painful job of thinking.
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The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
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The courage of life is often a less dramatic spectacle than the courage of the final moment; but it is no less a magnificent mixture of triumph and tragedy.
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The crafty person is always in danger; and when they think they walk in the dark, all their pretenses are transparent.
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The cynic says, ''One man can't do anything.'' I say, ''Only one man can do anything.''
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The day before my inauguration President Eisenhower told me, ''You'll find that no easy problems ever come to the President of the United States. If they are easy to solve, somebody else has solved them.'' I found that hard to believe, but now I know it is true.
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The day is not far off when the economic problem will take the back seat where it belongs, and the arena of the heart and the head will be occupied or reoccupied, by our real problems - the problems of life and of human relations, of creation and behavior and religion.
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The decadent international but individualistic capitalism in the hands of which we found ourselves after the war is not a success. It is not intelligent. It is not beautiful. It is not just. It is not virtuous. And it doesn't deliver the goods.
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