quotes of day Sunday, August 16, 2026

“O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast greater cause to be ashamed of them, than they of thee.”

“If we took as much pains to be what we ought, as we do to deceive others by disguising what we are; we might appear as we are, without being at the trouble of any disguise.”

“Liberty or death was what brought about the freedom of whites in this country from the English.”

“All infractions of love and equity in our social relations are ... punished by fear.”

“The one great principle of English law is to make business for itself.”

“Every man's happiness is his own responsibility.”

“It is perfectly monstrous,' he said, at last, 'the way people go about nowadays saying things against one behind one's back that are absolutely and entirely true.”

“Every generation needs a new revolution.”

“All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting.”

“There is not one wise man in twenty that will praise himself.”

“Leadership is the dream made reality.”

“Don't just grab at the first thing that comes along. Know when to refuse something that won't get you anywhere”

“The thing I know for sure is that at the end of my life, what I'm going to remember is the love I felt for my family and my friends, and whatever good I did for other people.”