He became convinced that ordinary commercial financing could be done for a service charge plus an insurance fee amounting to much less that the current rates of interest charged by banks, whose rates...
They didn't want it good, they wanted it Wednesday.
You can sway a thousand men by appealing to their prejudices quicker than you can convince one man by logic.
Customs, morals--is there a difference?
Always listen to experts. They'll tell you what can't be done, and why. Then do it.
Yield to temptation. It may not pass your way again.
I know why we laugh. We laugh because it hurts, and it's the only thing to make it stop hurting.
One could write a history of science in reverse by assembling the solemn pronouncements of highest authority about what could not be done and could never happen.
Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for...
In the twentieth century, nowhere on Earth was sex so vigorously suppressed as in America---and nowhere else was there such a deep interest in it.
A hero must hero.
One might almost define intelligence as the level at which an aware organism demands, 'What's in it for me?
I am free, no matter what rules surround me. If I find them tolerable, I tolerate them; if I find them too obnoxious, I break them. I am free because I know that I alone am morally responsible for eve...
When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppre...
When you vote, you are exercising political authority, you're using force. And force, my friends, is violence. The supreme authority from which all other authorities are derived.
The best things in life are beyond money; their price is agony and sweat and devotion . . . and the price demanded for the most precious of all things in life is life itself—ultimate cost for perfect...
Mother had the social restraint of an ambassador.
Library science was the foundation of all sciences.
A generation which ignores history has no past — and no future.
Everything is theoretically impossible, until it is done.