Norman Thomas Famous Quotes
"If you want a symbolic gesture, don't burn the flag wash it."
"After I asked him what he meant, he replied that freedom consisted of the unimpeded right to get rich, to use his ability, no matter what the cost to others, to win advancement."
"You may use different sorts of sentences and illustrations before different sorts of audiences, but you don't -- if you are wise -- talk down to any audience."
The secret of a good life is to have the right loyalties and to hold them in the right scale of values.
Norman Thomas Quotations
You cannot dream yourself into a character you must hammer and forge yourself one.
James A Froude
I have never in my life learned anything from any man who agreed with me.
Dudley Field Malone
"Jesus said, 'Where two or three are gathered in my name, there am I in their midst.'"
Matthew 1820 Bible
"If you can't accept losing, you can't win."
Vince Lombardi
"Whatever sentence will bear to be read twice, we may be sure was thought twice."
Henry David Thoreau
"The law must be stable, but it must not stand still."
Roscoe Pound
"Doubt is uncomfortable, certainty is ridiculous."
Francois Marie Arouet Voltaire
Magnificent promises are always to be suspected.
Theodore Parker
The eye sees only what the mind is prepared to comprehend.
Henri Bergson
We lost the American colonies because we lacked the statesmanship to know the right time and the manner of yielding what is impossible to keep.
Elizabeth II