Eugene V Debs Famous Quotes



The rights of one are as sacred as the rights of a million.

"I have no country to fight for my country is the earth, and I am a citizen of the world."

"When great changes occur in history, when great principles are involved, as a rule the majority are wrong. The minority are right."

"If it had not been for the discontent of a few fellows who had not been satisfied with their conditions, you would still be living in caves. Intelligent discontent is the mainspring of civilization. Progress is born of agitation. It is agitation or stagnation."


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In a world where there is so much to be done. I felt strongly impressed that there must be something for me to do.
Dorothea Dix

This only is denied to God the power to undo the past.
Agathon

"The memory of that scene for me is like a frame of film forever frozen at that moment the red carpet, the green lawn, the white house, the leaden sky. ... The new president and his first lady."
Richard Milhous Nixon

People may say what they like about the decay of Christianity the religious system that produced green Chartreuse can never really die.
Saki

"Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered."
Aristotle

He's simply got the instinct for being unhappy highly developed.
Saki

"I remember how, in college, I got that part-time job as a circus clown, and how the children would laugh and laugh at me. I vowed, then and there, that I would get revenge."
Jack Handey Deep Thoughts

He then learns that in going down into the secrets of his own mind he has descended into the secrets of all minds.
Ralph Waldo Emerson

You can't try to do things you simply must do them.
Ray Douglas Bradbury

The men who really believe in themselves are all in lunatic asylums.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton