Post one of your favorite quotes

[struggle4progress]

How wonderful it is that nobody need wait a single moment before starting to improve the world
Anne Frank

[LuckyCharms]

1. Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

~Voltaire

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

2. "Little by little, the look of the country changes because of the men we admire."

From the movie Hud. I didn't see it until it was on TV in about 1981, and I nearly fell of the couch when I heard that line. The most prescient line ever, and it still rings with authenticity all these years later.

[syringis]

3. Only one is allowed ?

Well not really my favorite but it is a very useful one theses days.

From Le Prince de Ligne :

"Soyez économes de votre mépris, il y a tant de nécessiteux"
"Save your disdain, there are so much needy"

I'm afraid not a very nice one.

[Snackshack]

4. ...

One true friend is worth ten thousand relatives.

Euripides

[Sherman A1]

5. The one in my sig line

[canetoad]

6. Freedom's just another word

For nothing left to lose.

[MaryMagdaline]

7. Some men see things as they are and say why

I dream of things that never were and say why not

George Bernard Shaw with rewrite by Robert Kennedy

[airmid]

8. The three highest causes of the true human are: Truth, Honor, and Duty.

Three candles that illuminate every darkness: Truth, Nature, and Knowledge.

[Croney]

9. The same fire that melts the iron tempers the steel.

[RestoreAmerica2020]

10. A man who stands for nothing will fall for anything

And ... If you don't stand for something you' ll fall for anything.

[samplegirl]

12. Ok this one does it for me!

My fav...Helping one person might not change the whole world but might change the world for one person,

[RestoreAmerica2020]

23. Note: i inserted qoute intially intended. Yes..your quote

...speaks to truth in a time we hunger for moral leader that is nonexistence, where are children are being murdered...we have a responsibility to act, to be that leader, to change the life of just one.

[secondwind]

11. Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent.

Eleanor Roosevelt

[tecelote]

13. "Great spirits have always encountered opposition from mediocre minds." - Albert Eienstein

[mobeau69]

14. "The most difficult subjects can be explained to the most slow-witted man

if he has not formed any idea of them already; but the simplest thing cannot be made clear to the most intelligent man if he is firmly persuaded that he knows already, without a shadow of doubt, what is laid before him.” - Leo Tolstoy






Vote them out.

[NNadir]

15. You gain strength, courage and confidence by every...

...experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You must do the thing you think you cannot do.”

Eleanor Roosevelt.

Once I understood that, my life became worth living.

[Rustynaerduwell]

16. Learn as if you were to live forever.

Live as if you were to die tomorrow.

[MoonRiver]

18. "Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow. It empties today of its strength." -- Corrie Ten Boom

[Silver Gaia]

19. "Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world.

Indeed, it’s the only thing that ever has." - attributed to anthropologist Margaret Mead

[genxlib]

21. This has to be one of mine as well

I wore out two copies of that T-shirt

[Silver Gaia]

22. I'd love one of those t-shirts!

[genxlib]

32. I get all my tshirts and liberal swag from Northern Sun

https://www.northernsun.com/

Sadly, I don't think they have that particular one anymore.

I am on my third generation of COEXIST tshirts. I always get complimented on it when I wear it around. Something about a t-shirt gets a lot more attention and interaction than a bumper sticker.

[genxlib]

33. But a quick google search...

Looks like other people make one now.

[Silver Gaia]

35. Cool!

I'll have to look into that. .

[Captain Stern]

20. A man who views the world the same at fifty as he did at twenty has wasted thirty years of his life.

-Muhammad Ali

[betsuni]

24. "Fake it."

"Fake it. That's a big thing with me. Many years ago I was riding on the Twentieth Century to Chicago. I was just a little girl. On the train was a wonderful entertainer by the name of Frisco. ... He had a bowler hat and the most exquisite shoes. He came and sat in the dining car for breakfast and cracked open his newspaper; he looked great. The waiter ... said, 'What will you have this morning?' To which Frisco answered, 'Ice cream and applesauce.' ... The waiter was very upset ... and said, 'we haven't got any ice cream or any applesauce.' 'Okay, fake it.' That made a tremendous impression on me."

Diana Vreeland

[smirkymonkey]

25. Thank you! This is a great idea for a thread. So many great quotes already!

"The American Republic will endure until the day Congress discovers that it can bribe the public with the public's money."

- Alexis de Tocqueville

[NCTraveler]

26. .

"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents, more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron." — H. L. Mencken

[GoCubsGo]

27. H. L. Mencken--

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for. As for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican."

[nightwing1240]

28. Very useful with tRumpkins or rethugs

Never get into an argument with an idiot. They'll drag you down to their level and beat you with experience - Mark Twain

[babylonsister]

29. Teddy Roosevelt had a slew of 'em...

On diversity: "I cannot consent to take the position that the door of hope — the door of opportunity — is to be shut upon any man, no matter how worthy, purely upon the grounds of race or color. Such an attitude would, according to my convictions, be fundamentally wrong."

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”

― Theodore Roosevelt

[bottomofthehill]

30. The moral test of government -- Senator Humphry

It was once said that the moral test of government is how that government treats those who are in the dawn of life, the children; those who are in the twilight of life, the elderly; and those who are in the shadows of life, the sick, the needy and the handicapped

[bmbmd]

31. The liberal man

Availeth much, and by liberal things he shall stand. Isaiah

[Wounded Bear]

34. Common sense is an uncommon quality...

and variations on that theme.

[kentuck]

36. "If we had some ham, we'd have some ham and eggs if..."

"...we had some eggs."