A variety of quotes –
Frederick Douglass –
Power concedes nothing without demand. It never did and it never will.
Charles De Gaulle –
One can’t impose unity out of the blue on a country that has 265 different kinds of cheese.
Benjamin Disraeli –
No government can be long secure without a formadible opposition.
Golda Meir –
We will have peace with the arabs when they love their children more than they hate us.
Benjamin Franklin –
There was never a good war or a bad peace.
Moshe Dayan –
If you want to make peace, you don’t talk to your friends. You talk to your enemies.
Albert Einstein –
Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.
Albert Camus –
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
Carrie Fisher –
Instant gratification takes too long.
Resentment is like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.
Henry Kissinger –
The illegal we do immediately. The unconstitutional takes a little longer. (New York Times, October 28, 1973)
Groucho Marx –
I’d never join a club that would accept me as a member.
Those are my principles. If you don’t like them I have others.
I have had a perfectly wonderful evening, but this wasn’t it.
Although widely attributed to Groucho Marx, no proof exists it was actually said –
Groucho – “Why do you have so many children? That’s a big responsibility and a big burden.”
Mrs. Story – “Well, because I love my children and I think that’s our purpose here on Earth, and I love my husband.”
Groucho – “I love my cigar, too, but I take it out of my mouth once in a while.”
Margaret Mead –
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.
Casey Stengel –
The secret to managing is to keep the guys that hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
Paul Newman – in the wake of his death, I recalled a few quotes that have stuck with me –
I don’t like to discuss my marriage, but I will tell you something which may sound corny but which happens to be true. I have steak at home. Why should I go out for hamburger?
I’ve been accused of being aloof. I’m not. I’m just wary.
As Butch Cassidy – I have vision, and the rest of the world wears bifocals.