Quotations

Here are some my favorite quotes from people both famous or not.

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than to those attending too small a degree of it.
- Thomas Jefferson

America was not built on fear. America was built on courage, on imagination and an unbeatable determination to do the job at hand.
- Harry S. Truman

Carry the battle to them. Don’t let them bring it to you. Put them on the defensive and don’t ever apologize for anything.
- Harry S. Truman

Any people anywhere, being inclined and having the power, have the right to rise up, and shake off the existing government, and form a new one that suits them better. This is a most valuable - a most sacred right - a right, which we hope and believe, is to liberate the world.
- Abraham Lincoln

Because power corrupts, society’s demands for moral authority and character increase as the importance of the position increases.
- John Adams

A person who trusts no one can’t be trusted.
- Jerome Blattner

I believe in looking reality straight in the eye and denying it.
- Garrison Keillor

Reality is that which, when you stop believing in it, doesn’t go away.
- Philip K. Dick

“Usually when people are sad, they don’t do anything.
They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.”

— Malcolm X, Malcolm X Speaks, 1965