Eugene McCarthy Famous Quotes
"This is, I say, the time for all good men not to go to the aid of their party, but to come to the aid of their country."
Saying we should keep the two-party political system simply because it is working is like saying the Titanic voyage was a success because a few people survived on life rafts.
The only thing that saves us from the bureaucracy is inefficiency. An efficient bureaucracy is the greatest threat to liberty.
It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.
"Being in politics is like being a football coach. You have to be smart enough to understand the game, and dumb enough to think it's important."
Eugene McCarthy Quotations
Science at best is not wisdom it is knowledge. Wisdom is knowledge tempered with judgment.
Lord RitchieCalder
Life is too complicated not to be orderly.
Martha Stewart
It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.
Whitney Moore Young
Account no man happy till he dies.
Euripides
"When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice."
Cherokee Proverb
"Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy but after a war it seems more like astrology."
Rebecca West
What brings joy to the heart is not so much the friend's gift as the friend's love.
Saint Alfred of Rievaulx
"Please write again soon. Though my own life is filled with activity, letters encourage momentary escape into others lives and I come back to my own with greater contentment."
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
"If you want to be respected by others the great thing is to respect yourself. Only by that, only by self-respect will you compel others to respect you."
Fyodor Dostoevsky
The opera isn't over till the fat lady sings.
Dan Cook