Quotable Quotes

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
CHARLES BUKOWSKI

I invented nothing new. I simply assembled the discoveries of other men behind whom were centuries of work. Had I worked fifty or ten or even five years before, I would have failed. So it is with every new thing. Progress happens when all the factors that make for it are ready and then it is inevitable. To teach that a comparatively few men are responsible for the greatest forward steps of mankind is the worst sort of nonsense.
HENRY FORD

The press, the machine, the railway, the telegraph are premises whose thousand-year conclusion no one has yet dared to draw.
FRIEDRICH NIETZSCHE

If you think health care is expensive now, wait until you see what it costs when it's free.
P.J. O'ROURKE

For the general prosperity, there cannot be too much facility given to the conveyance and exchange of all kinds of property, as it is by such means that capital of every species is likely to find its way into the hands of those, who will best employ it in increasing the productions of the country.
DAVID RICARDO

To lose patience is to lose the battle.
GANDHI

Our freedoms can never be protected by destroying them.
MIKE MILLER

I would call Congress "whores," but that would be an insult to people who actually work for a living.
FRIEDA CLUB

The democracy will cease to exist when you take away from those who are willing to work and give to those who would not.
THOMAS JEFFERSON

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