quotes by Orator Quotes

“If you make 10,000 regulations you destroy all respect for the law.”

“Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.”

“Wisdom is not only to be acquired, but enjoyed.”

“The great theatre for virtue is conscience.”

“Nothing is more dangerous in wartime than to live in the temperamental atmosphere of a Gallup Poll, always feeling one's pulse and taking one's temperature.”

“We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years.”

“When confronted by a hungry wolf, it is unwise to goad the beast, as Cato would have us do. But it is equally unwise to imagine the snarling animal a friend and offer your hand, as Pompey does." "Perhaps you would have us climb a tree!”

“The enemy is still proud and powerful. He is hard to get at. He still possesses enormous armies, vast resources, and invaluable strategic territories...No one can tell what new complications and perils might arise in four or five more years of war. And it is in the dragging-out of the war at enormous expense, until the democracies are tired or bored or split that the main hopes of Germany and Japan must reside.”

“The office of liberality consisteth in giving with judgment.”

“It has been said that democracy is the worst form of government except all the others that have been tried.”

“Lenin was sent into Russia by the Germans in the same way that you might send a phial containing a culture of typhoid or cholera to be poured into the water supply of a great city, and it worked with amazing accuracy.”

“I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home.[Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]”

“The true guide of life is to do what is right.”

“The higher we are placed, the more humbly we should walk.”

“In everything truth surpasses the imitation and copy.”

“Friendship improves happiness and abates misery, by the doubling of our joy and the dividing of our grief.”

“There is not a moment without some duty.”

“Your enemies can kill you, but only your friends can hurt you.”

“We need to be strong in order to avoid war; and to win. A politician looks forward only to the next election. A statesman looks forward to the next generation. Any person who is over 30 and is not a conservative, has no brains.”

“Success always demands a greater effort.”

“A diamond is a piece of coal that stuck to the job”

“The statesman who yields to war fever must realise that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.”

“I know not any season of life that is past more agreeably than virtuous old age.”

“One of the most important signs of the existence of a democracy is that when there is a knock at the door at 5 in the morning, one is completely certain that it is the milkman.”

“Memory is the treasury and guardian of all things.”

“All babies look like me.But then, I look like all babies.”

“No one saves us but ourselves. No one can and no one may. We ourselves must walk the path. Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go. Continuous effort - not strength or intelligence - is the key to unlocking our potential.”

“And do not suppose that this is the end. This is only the beginning of the reckoning. This is only the first sip, the first foretaste of a bitter cup which will be proffered to us year by year unless by a supreme recovery of moral health and martial vigour, we arise again and take our stand for freedom as in the olden time.”

“The women's suffrage movement is only the small edge of the wedge, if we allow women to vote it will mean the loss of social structure and the rise of every liberal cause under the sun. Women are well represented by their fathers, brothers, and husbands.”

“No sensible man (among the many things that have been written on this kind) ever imputed inconsistency to another for changing his mind.[Lat., Nemo doctus unquam (multa autem de hoc genere scripta sunt) mutationem consili inconstantiam dixit esse.]”

“The man who can master his time can master nearly anything.”

“Never does a man portray his character more vividly than when proclaiming the character of another.”

“Criticism is easy; achievement is difficult.”

“As the scale of the balance must give way to the weight that presses it down, so the mind must of necessity yield to demonstration.”

“We must not say that every mistake is a foolish one.”

“[There are dangers in] the disposition to hunt down rich men as if they were noxious beasts.”

“When you are going through hell, don't stop.”

“To live is to think.”

“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-Boat peril...It did not take the form of flaring battles and glittering achievements, it manifested itself through statistics, diagrams, and curves unknown to the nation, incomprehensible to the public.”

“Expert knowledge is limited knowledge”

“Even the ablest pilots are willing to receive advice from passengers in tempestuous weather.”

“Times are bad. Children no longer obey their parents, and everyone is writing a book.”

“One is quite astonished to find how many things there are in the landscape, and in every object in it, one never noticed before. And this is a tremendous new pleasure and interest which invests every walk or drive with an added object. So many colours on the hillside, each different in shadow and in sunlight; such brilliant reflections in the pool, each a key lower than what they repeat; such lovely lights gilding or silvering surface or outline, all tinted exquisitely with pale colour, rose, orange, green or violet.”

“Men, in whatever anxiety they may be, if they are men, sometimes indulge in relaxation.”

“Success is never found. Failure is never fatal. Courage is the only thing.”

“Life is a test and this world a place of trial. Always the problems - or it may be the same problem - will be presented to every generation in different forms.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“Any clever person can make plans for winning a war if he has no responsibility for carrying them out.”

“It is absurd to say that our country can issue $30,000,000 in bonds and not $30,000,000 in currency. Both are promises to pay; but one promise fattens the usurer (banker), and the other helps the people. If the currency issued by the Government were no good, then the bonds issued would be no good either. It is a terrible situation when the Government, to increase the national wealth, must go into debt and submit to ruinous interest charges at the hands of men who control the fictitious values of gold.”

“I know of over 3,000 ways [that] a light bulb does not work.”