Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [481-500] of 653 Wisdom quotesWisdom QuotesWisdom Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes An economist is a man that can tell you...what can happen under any given condition, and his guess is liable to be as good as anybody else's too.~ Will Rogers America has a very unique record. We never lost a war or won a conference...~ Will Rogers Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there.~ Will Rogers I bet you, if I had met Trotsky, and had had a chat with him, I would have found him a very interesting and human fellow, for I have never yet met a man I didn't like.~ Will Rogers I doubt if a charging elephant, or a rhino, is as determined or hard to check as a socially ambitious mother.~ Will Rogers If we ever pass out as a great nation we ought to put on our tombstone, 'America died from a delusion that she has moral leadership'.~ Will Rogers Ohio claims they are due a president as they haven't had one since Taft. Look at the United States, they have not had one since Lincoln.~ Will Rogers The United States investigates everything -- usually after it's dead.~ Will Rogers We are always yapping about the 'Good Old Days' and how we look back and enjoy it, but I tell you there is a lot of hooey to it. There is a whole lot of all our past lives that wasn't so hot.~ Will Rogers Your mothers get mighty shocked at you girls nowadays, but in her day, her mother was just on the verge of sending her to reform school.~ Will Rogers The saving grace of America lies in the fact that the overwhelming majority of Americans are possessed of two great qualities -- a sense of humor and a sense of proportion.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt Knowledge -- that is, education in its true sense -- is our best protection against unreasoning prejudice and panic-making fear, whether engendered by special interest, illiberal minorities, or panic-stricken leaders.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt The creed of our democracy is that liberty is acquired and kept by men and women who are strong and self-reliant, and possessed of such wisdom as God gives mankind -- men and women who are just, and understanding, and generous to others -- men and women who are capable of disciplining themselves. For they are the rulers and they must rule themselves.~ Franklin D. Roosevelt The things that will destroy America are prosperity-at-any-price, peace-at-any-price, safety-first instead of duty-first, the love of soft living and the get-rich-quick theory of life.~ Theodore Roosevelt No man is justified in doing evil on the ground of expediency.~ Theodore Roosevelt All privileges based on wealth, and all emnity to honest men merely because they are wealthy, are un-American.~ Theodore Roosevelt In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard.~ Theodore Roosevelt Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.~ Dr. Benjamin Rush Without seeking, truth cannot be known at all. It can neither be declared from pulpits, nor set down in articles, nor in any wise prepared and sold in packages ready for use. Truth must be ground for every man by itself out of it such, with such help as he can get, indeed, but not without stern labor of his own.~ John Ruskin Do not fear to be eccentric in opinion, for every opinion now accepted was once eccentric.~ Bertrand Russell Previous 20 quotes Next 20 quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print