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A pessimist sees difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.

None are more hopelessly enslaved than those who falsely believe they are free.

Hollywood is a place where they’ll pay you a thousand dollars for a kiss and fifty cents for your soul.

Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time that nothing that is worth knowing can be taught.

A person hears only what they understand.

The only good is knowledge and the only evil is ignorance.

Giving society cheap, abundant energy would be the equivalent of giving an idiot child a machine gun.

We contend that for a nation to tax itself into prosperity is like a man standing in a bucket and trying to lift himself up by the handle.

Those who don’t know history are doomed to repeat it.

Always love in life anything less is not living.

Think for yourself and let others enjoy the privilege of doing so too.

The truth of the matter is that you always know the right thing to do. The hard part is doing it.

All knowledge is ultimately self knowledge.

…he who keeps back the truth, or withholds it from men, from motives of expediency, is either a coward or a criminal or both.

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.

The man who trades freedom for security does not deserve, nor will he ever receive, either.

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

It’s so easy to laugh. It’s so easy to hate. It takes guts to be gentle and kind.

As for me, all I know is that I know nothing.

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it.

Let them march all they want, so long as they pay their taxes.