105328 Quotes by American authors

American voices swing between defiance and tenderness, mixing porch talk with courtroom thunder, hymnals with barroom jokes. The sayings lean toward motion, road-tested, restless, certain that the next turn matters, and they test ideas like tools, not ornaments. Humor undercuts sermon, dissent stands beside loyalty, and hope keeps arguing with experience. From prairie plain speech to borough quickfire, the language favors verbs over lace, a handshake over ceremony. Edge meets empathy, contradictions are carried honestly, and words still try to shove the world forward.

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It was high counsel that I once heard given to a young person, 'Always do what you are afraid to do'"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is one of the blessings of old friends that you can afford to be stupid with them"

Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philosopher

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"It is much easier to suppress a first desire than to satisfy those that follow"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"The strictest law sometimes becomes the severest injustice"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"Games lubricate the body and the mind"

Benjamin Franklin, Politician

Benjamin Franklin

"You must first get along with yourself before you can get along with others"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"If you have a vision, do something with it"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Build your reputation by helping other people build theirs"

Anthony J. D'Angelo, Author

Anthony J. D'Angelo

"Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Do not bite at the bait of pleasure, till you know there is no hook beneath it"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Merchants have no country. The mere spot they stand on does not constitute so strong an attachment as that from which they draw their gains"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"Mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed"

Thomas Jefferson, President

Thomas Jefferson

"We must respect the other fellow's religion, but only in the sense and to the extent that we respect his theory that his wife is beautiful and his"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian"

H. L. Mencken, Writer

H. L. Mencken

"Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"No government ever voluntarily reduces itself in size. Government programs, once launched, never disappear. Actually, a government bureau is the nearest thing to eternal life we'll ever see on this earth!"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"No matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Thomas Jefferson once said, 'We should never judge a president by his age, only by his works.' And ever since he told me that, I stopped worrying"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Some people wonder all their lives if they've made a difference. The Marines don't have that problem"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Inflation is as violent as a mugger, as frightening as an armed robber and as deadly as a hit man"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Government exists to protect us from each other. Where government has gone beyond its limits is in deciding to protect us from ourselves"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"Facts are stubborn things"

Ronald Reagan, President

Ronald Reagan

"I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"Life is full of misery, loneliness, and suffering - and it's all over much too soon"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

"I don't believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear"

Woody Allen, Director

Woody Allen

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

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"A right delayed is a right denied"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"A lie cannot live"

Martin Luther King Jr., Minister

Martin Luther King Jr.

"It is essential that there should be organization of labor. This is an era of organization. Capital organizes and therefore labor must organize"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Far and away the best prize that life has to offer is the chance to work hard at work worth doing"

Theodore Roosevelt, President

Theodore Roosevelt

"Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"He just kind of talks them through, and then I get the fun part cause I get to make up the stories"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

"When I was a junior camp counselor and it was my job to tell the campers a bedtime story or devotional, I would tell them a rapture story"

Jerry B. Jenkins, Novelist

Jerry B. Jenkins

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