Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quoteShare via Email Print this Page Daily Quotes Archives2011-02-10 Feb 10, 2011I have known a vast quantity of nonsense talked about bad men not looking you in the face. Don´t trust that conventional idea. Dishonesty will stare honesty out of countenance any day in the week, if anything is to be got by it.~ Charles DickensCuriosity is the kernal of forbidden fruit.~ Dr. Thomas FullerRevenge is profitable, gratitude is expensive.~ Edward Gibbon Feb 9, 2011As I grow older, I pay less attention to what men say. I just watch what they do.~ Andrew CarnegieI'm proud to pay taxes in the United States; the only thing is, I could be just as proud for half the money.~ Arthur GodfreyDiplomats are only useful in fair weather. As soon as it rains, they drown in every drop.~ Charles DeGaulle Feb 8, 2011Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.~ Albert EinsteinFor the problem of decision-making in our complicated world is not how to get the problem simple enough so that we can all understand it; the problem is how to get our thinking about the problem as complex as humanly possible--and thus approach (we can never match) the complexity of the real world around us.~ Harlan ClevelandIf you can't describe what you are doing as a process, you don't know what you're doing.~ W. Edwards Deming Feb 7, 2011Since the federal constitution has removed all danger of our having a paper tender, our trade is advanced fifty percent. Our monied people can trust their cash abroad, and have brought their coin into circulation.~ The Pennsylvania GazetteAs a very important source of strength and security, cherish public credit. One method of preserving it is to use it as sparingly as possible, avoiding occasions of expense by cultivating peace, but remembering also that timely disbursements to prepare for danger frequently prevent much greater disbursements to repel it, avoiding likewise the accumulation of debt, not only by shunning occasions of expense, but by vigorous exertion in time of peace to discharge the debts which unavoidable wars may have occasioned, not ungenerously throwing upon posterity the burden which we ourselves ought to bear. The execution of these maxims belongs to your representatives, but it is necessary that public opinion should co-operate.~ George WashingtonThe chief duty of the National Government in connection with the currency of the country is to coin money and declare its value. Grave doubts have been entertained whether Congress is authorized by the Constitution to make any form of paper money legal tender. The present issue of United States notes has been sustained by the necessities of war; but such paper should depend for its value and currency upon its convenience in use and its prompt redemption in coin at the will of the holder, and not upon its compulsory circulation. These notes are not money, but promises to pay money. If the holders demand it, the promise should be kept.~ James A. Garfield Feb 4, 2011Government is not a solution to our problem, government is the problem.~ Ronald ReaganIf we lose freedom here, there is no place to escape to. This is the last stand on earth.~ Ronald ReaganIt is not my intention to do away with government. It is, rather, to make it work -- work with us, not over us; to stand by our side, not ride on our back. Government can and must provide opportunity, not smother it; foster productivity, not stifle it. It is no coincidence that our present troubles parallel and are proportionate to the intervention and intrusion in our lives that result from unnecessary and excessive growth of government. ... We shall reflect the compassion that is so much a part of your makeup. How can we love our country and not love our countrymen, and loving them, not reach out a hand when they fall, heal them when they are sick, and provide opportunities to make them self-sufficient so they will be equal in fact and not just in theory? ... We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each Inauguration Day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer.~ Ronald Reagan Previous week's quotes Next week's quotes Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print