quotes of day Wednesday, August 12, 2026

“You have only one way to convince others, listen to them.”

“I want to be the white man's brother, not his brother-in-law.”

“Attitude, not Aptitude, determines Altitude.”

“A woman, especially, if she have the misfortune of knowing anything, should conceal it as well as she can.”

“[M]y conception of liberty does not permit an individual citizen or a group of citizens to commit acts of depredation against nature in such a way as to harm their neighbors and especially to harm the future generations of Americans. If many years ago we had had the necessary knowledge, and especially the necessary willingness on the part of the Federal Government, we would have saved a sum, a sum of money which has cost the taxpayers of America two billion dollars.”

“I desire so to conduct the affairs of this administration that if at the end... I have lost every other friend on earth, I shall at least have one friend left, and that friend shall be down inside of me.”

“I was a victim of a stereotype. There were only two of us Negro kids in the whole class, and our English teacher was always stressing the importance of rhythm in poetry. Well, everybody knows - except us - that all Negroes have rhythms, so they elected me class poet.”

“We are not angry with people we fear or respect, as long as we fear or respect them; you cannot be afraid of a person and also at the same time angry with him.”

“I don't practice anything. I spend time looking over ideas and then just get out and do it.”

“If anyone's reading this waiting for some type of full-on, flat apology for anything, they should just stop reading right now.”

“When the representatives of "Big Business" think of the people, they do not include themselves.”

“I have two great enemies, the Southern Army in front of me and the bankers in the rear. Of the two, the one at my rear is my greatest foe.”

“A smile remains the most inexpensiv gift I can bestow on anyone and yet its powers can vanquish kingdoms.”