David G Farragut Famous Quotes



Damn the torpedoes Full speed ahead


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"Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil in its worst state, an intolerable one."
Thomas Paine

"Time is the great legalizer, even in the field of morals."
Henry Louis Mencken

I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone

"No matter how rich you become, how famous or powerful, when you die the size of your funeral will still pretty much depend on the weather."
Michael Pritchard

Live.....Laugh.....GOLF
Kathryn Schaefer Plaum

"Beyond a critical point within a finite space, freedom diminishes as numbers increase. ...The human question is not how many can possibly survive within the system, but what kind of existence is possible for those who do survive."
Frank Herbert Dune

I choose the likely man in preference to the rich man I want a man without money rather than money without a man.
Themistocles

This is courage in a man to bear unflinchingly what heaven sends.
English Proverb

"His intelligence seized on a subject, his genius embraced it, his eloquence illuminated it."
Paterculus

"Many years ago, I concluded that a few hair shirts were part of the mental wardrobe of every man. The president differs from other men in that he has a more extensive wardrobe."
Herbert Clark Hoover