The public interest requires doing today those things that men of intelligence and good will would wish, five or ten years hence, had been done.

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.

Nobody made a greater mistake than he who did nothing because he could do only a little.

Those who don't know history are destined to repeat it.

The hottest fires in hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in times of moral crisis.

Silence is golden but when it threatens your freedom it's yellow.

In a democracy, the majority of the citizens is capable of exercising the most cruel oppressions upon the minority.

It is a general popular error to suppose the loudest complainers for the public to be the most anxious for its welfare.

When you fear something, learn as much about it as you can. Knowledge conquers fear.

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy.

The Fate of good men who refuse to become involved in politics is to be ruled by evil men.

The best way to solve a problem is to prevent it.

People don't realize how much they are in the grip of ideas. We live among ideas much more than we live in nature.

Money is to my social existence what health is to my body.

Even when sisters are different... Their likeness comes shining through!

As if fixing the little errors would made the big stuff manageable.

The sound when we crash is so loud it's almost impossible.

... imperfection would get me farther than perfection.

No matter what nationality or color is champion, we Irish like to say that we have a heavyweight champion, Gene Tunney retired, who can come back and take the title at any time.

Blue suggests the sea and sky, and they, after all, are in actual, visible nature what is most abstract.