quotes of day Tuesday, August 4, 2026

“When it is a question of money, everybody is of the same religion.”

“Why, he wondered, did people who had been asleep always want to make out that they were extremely wide-awake?”

“Remember that to change your mind and follow him who sets you right is to be none the less free than you were before.”

“Having George W. Bush giving a lecture on business ethics is like having a leper give you a facial, it just doesn't work!”

“Anyone who keeps learning stays young.”

“The jack-of-all-trades seldom is good at any. Concentrate all of your efforts on one definite chief aim.”

“To yield readily--easily--to the persuasion of a friend is no merit.... To yield without conviction is no compliment to the understanding of either.”

“Explanation by the tongue makes most things clear, But love unexplained is clearer.”

“The best way to make children good is to make them happy.”

“But tomorrow I see a change, a chance to build anew, built on Spirit, intent of heart, and ideas based on truth. Tomorrow I wake with second wind and strong ideas of pride. I know I fought with all my heart to keep the dream alive.”

“So I'm not proposing anything radical. I just believe that anybody making over $250,000 a year should go back to the income tax rates we were paying under Bill Clinton. Back when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest budget surplus in history, and plenty of millionaires to boot. ... At the same time, most people agree that we should not raise taxes on middle-class families or small businesses -- not when so many folks are just trying to get by.”

“Dost thou think, because thou art virtuous, there shall be no more cakes and ale?”

“Our fellow-citizens think they have a right to full information, in a case of such great concernment to them. It is their sweat which is to earn all the expenses of the war, and their blood which is to flow in expiation of the causes of it.”