Quotes for All
The American people have no idea they are paying the bill. They know that someone is stealing their hubcaps, but they think it is the greedy businessman who raises prices or the selfish laborer who demands higher wages or the unworthy farmer who demands too much for his crop or the wealthy foreigner who bids … Read more
The Scripture can only be read intelligently by inspired men and women. The value we get from our reading is in direct proportion to the measure in which we are filled with God’s Spirit. G. Campbell Morgan
Friends that I value most are people who would essentially use physical violence against me at a time when I seem to be teetering on the edge. Ezra Miller
There’s no true value placed in learning, if the point of you learning something is to simply know it for a test, to get a grade, to go to the good school. Ezra Miller
The proud depend upon the world to tell them whether they have value or not. Their self-esteem is determined by where they are judged to be on the ladders of worldly success. They feel worthwhile as individuals if the numbers beneath them in achievement, talent, beauty, or intellect are large enough. Ezra Taft Benson
Let us never lose sight of the fact that education is a preparation for life – and that preparing for life is far more than knowing how to make a living or how to land on the moon. Preparing for life means building personal integrity, developing a sound sense of values, increasing the capacity and … Read more
There are certain basic principles regarding the proper role of government. If principles are correct, then they can be applied to any specific proposal with confidence… The true statesman values principle above popularity, and works to create popularity for those political principles which are wise and just. Ezra Taft Benson
Technique is the test of sincerity. If a thing isn’t worth getting the technique to say, it is of inferior value. Ezra Pound
I consider criticism merely a preliminary excitement, a statement of things a writer has to clear up in his own head sometime or other, probably antecedent to writing; of no value unless it come to fruit in the created work later. Ezra Pound
The phase of the usury system which we are trying to analyze is more or less Patterson’s perception that the Bank of England could have benefit of all the interest on all the money that it creates out of nothing. … Now the American citizen can, of course, appeal to his constitution, which states that … Read more