A fool is wiser in his own house than a sage is in another man's house.

Great captains of industry are as rare as great generals

If I want to be free from any other man's dictation, I must understand that I can have no other man under my control.

The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. . . . I call C the Forgotten Man.

Undoubtedly there are, in connection with each of these things, cases of fraud, swindling, and other financial crimes; that is to say, the greed and selfishness of men are perpetual.

He who would be well taken care of must take care of himself.

If you live in a country run by committee, be on the committee.

We shall find that every effort to realize equality necessitates a sacrifice of liberty.

The State cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who has produced and saved it. This latter is the Forgotten Man

There is no boon in nature. All the blessings we enjoy are the fruits of labor, toil, self-denial, and study.

It is the tendency of the social burdens to crush out the middle class, and to force society into an organization of only two classes, one at each social extreme.

We can sum up the surrealist distinction between 'literature' and 'poetry' by saying where the former is artificial, fictive and elusive, the latter is natural, real, direct and spontaneous.

Plato dramatically puts the detachment of the philosopher from his time this way: to philosophize is to prepare to die.

Girl scouts didn't teach me what to do with emotionally unstable drunk boys.

What Ireland needs now above all else is peace.

I think it's a given that people know what I can do vocally.

For to desire is better than to possess, the finality of the end was dreaded as deeply as it was desired.

The mosquitoes here are big enough to rape a chicken.

My wife used to tell me one of my best qualities was that my feet don't smell, but I remember my brother's did when we were kids.

My decision was sparked by affirmative action. There was a point in my life when affirmative action would have meant something to me - when my family was working-class, and we were struggling.

There are a lot of good things about being famous but there are a few not so good things too