I.B. George Quotes

The United States of America will never be intimidated by thugs and assassins. The killers will fail, and the Iraqi people will live in freedom.

As young Americans, you have an important responsibility, which is to become good citizens.

I promise you I will listen to what has been said here, even though I wasn't here.

Appreciative words are the most powerful force for good on earth.

A people unused to restraint must be led, they will not be drove.

If we mean to support the liberty and independence which has cost us so much blood and treasure to establish, we must drive far away the demon of party spirit and local reproach.

Always speak the truth.

I was summoned by my Country, whose voice I can never hear but with veneration and love.

I had rather be on my farm than be emperor of the world.

An aching head and trembling limbs, which are the inevitable effects of drinking, disincline the hands from work.

It is our boast, that a man's religious tenets will not forfeit the protection of the Laws.

All I am I owe to my mother.

Where is the security for property, for reputation, for life, if the sense of religious obligation deserts the oaths . . . ?

The Stamp Act imposed on the colonies by the Parliament of Great Britain is an ill-judged measure. Parliament has no right to put its hands into our pockets without our consent.

There is no shortcut to achievement.

I think I'll sleep now.

Give what you can, take what you need.

Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.

If you have only a little ray of light, show out distinctly that you are for Him.

Being elected to Congress is regarded as being sent on a looting raid for one's friends.

A tree which has lost its head will never recover it again, and will survive only as a monument of the ignorance and folly of its Tormentor.

Imagination is as good as many voyages - and how much cheaper.

Reputation is favorable notoriety as distinguished from fame, which is permanent approval of great deeds and noble thoughts by the best intelligence of mankind.

Our great social and political advantage is opportunity.

Forgive me, Spirit of my spirit, for this, that I have found it easier to read the mystery told in tears and understood Thee better in sorrow than in joy.

I propose to beg no question to shrink from no conclusion, but to follow truth wherever it may lead.

Private ownership of land is the nether mill-stone. Material progress is the upper mill-stone. Between them, with an increasing pressure, the working classes are being ground.

There is something all life has in common, and when I know what it is I shall know myself.

If the economy becomes disembodied from society it can only lead to disaster.

Man does not drift into goodness...the chance port of an aimless voyage. He must fight ever for his destination.

A fad lives its life in a few weeks; a philosophy lives through generations and centuries; a principle, forever.

Good novels are not written by orthodoxy-sniffers, nor by people who are conscience-stricken about their own orthodoxy. Good novels are written by people who are not frightened.

The reflection upon my situation and that of this army produces many an uneasy hour when all around me are wrapped in sleep. Few people know the predicament we are in.

In all the useful arts the world is either standing still or going backwards.

A woman dictates before marriage in order that she may have an appetite for submission afterwards.

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

Blameless people are always the most exasperating.

Tea is one of the main stays of civilization in this country.

Any coward can fight a battle when he's sure of winning.

There's folks 'ud stand on their heads and then say the fault was i' their boots.

Failure after long perseverance is much grander than never to have a striving good enough to be called a failure.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Morality is not respectability.

The quickest way of ending a war is to lose it.

A hundredload of worry will not pay an ounce of debt.

With our love, we could save the world.

We were talking about the space between us all and the people who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion. Never glimpse the truth - then it's far too late when they pass away.

I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

I'm not denyin' the women are foolish. God Almighty made 'em to match the men.

Great tragedy has come to us, and we are meeting it with the best that is in our country, with courage and concern for others because this is America. This is who we are.