This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
To find a place in the budget for the eternal is not in the spirit of our age.
There are two kinds of crimes: those committed by people who are caught and convicted, and those committed by people who are not. Which category a particular crime falls into is directly related to the wealth, power, and prestige of the criminal. The former category includes such crimes as purse snatching, mugging, armed robbery and breaking and entering. The latter category includes war atrocities, embezzlement, most political actions, and budget appropriations.
Should we welcome the huge growth of the military budget at the expense of health, education, the needs of children, one fifth of whom grow up in poverty? I suggest that a patriotic American who cares for his or her country might act on behalf of a different vision. Instead of being feared for our military prowess, we should want to be respected for our dedication to human rights.
Children | Dedication | Education | Growth | Health | Poverty | Prowess | Rights | Vision |
Newt Gingrich, fully Newton Leroy "Newt" Gingrich, born Newton Leroy McPherson
It is time we passed a balanced budget amendment and return this government to limited spending.
Government | Time | Government |
Angela Merkel, fully Angela Dorothea Merkel, née Kasner
Eurobonds are absolutely wrong. In order to bring about common interest rates, you need similar competitiveness levels, similar budget situations. You don't get them by collectivizing debts.
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
The Soviet leaders reserve unto themselves the right to commit any crime, to lie, to cheat and that the only morality they recognize is what will further their cause.
Conscience | Size |
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
Government is like a baby. An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
I've always believed that a lot of the trouble in the world would disappear if we were talking to each other instead of about each other.
Ronald Reagan, fully Ronald Wilson Reagan
We must reject the idea that every time a law's broken, society is guilty rather than the lawbreaker. It is time to restore the American precept that each individual is accountable for his actions.
From this day forward, somebody propose it, liberals should not be allowed to buy guns. It's just that simple. Liberals should have their speech controlled and not be allowed to buy guns. I mean if we want to get serious about this, if we want to face this head on, we’re gonna have to openly admit, liberals should not be allowed to buy guns, nor should they be allowed to use computer keyboards or typewriters, word processors or e-mails, and they should have their speech controlled. If we did those three or four things, I can’t tell you what a sane, calm, civil, fun-loving society we would have. Take guns out of the possession, out of the hands of liberals, take their typewriters and their keyboards away from ‘em, don’t let ‘em anywhere near a gun, and control their speech. You would wipe out 90% of the crime, 85 to 95% of the hate, and a hundred percent of the lies from society.
Care | Change | Government | Health | Nothing | Relationship | Will | Government |
Willa Cather, fully Willa Sibert Cather
No one can build his security upon the nobleness of another person. Two people, when they love each other, grow alike in their tastes and habits and pride, but their moral natures (whatever we may mean by that canting expression) are never welded. The base one goes on being base, and the noble one noble, to the end.
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Walt Disney, fully Walter Elias "Walt" Disney
Being a celebrity doesn't even seem to keep the fleas off our dogs — and if being a celebrity won't give me an advantage over a couple of fleas, then I guess there can't be much in being a celebrity after all.
The natural effect of sorrow over the dead is to refine and elevate the mind.
Church | Present | Speculation | Following |
We could lose, and I think we need to face that. I was speaking in Nebraska the other day and a very intelligent man came up afterward and said in a very kind and intelligent way, Of course you know you may be fighting a losing battle. And I answered, I’ve known for 30 years that I may be fighting a losing battle. The question to me is not whether I’m going to win or not, but whether I’m going to fight or not.
Capital punishment | Hypocrisy | Life | Life | Opposition | Public | Punishment | Society | Society | Think |
W. Clement Stone, fully William Clement Stone
You affect your subconscious mind by verbal repetition.
Desire | Enthusiasm | Time | Think |
Tom Hayden, fully Thomas Emmet "Tom" Hayden
I think people are entitled to march without a permit. When you have a few hundred thousand people on the street you have permission.
Tom Robbins, fully Thomas Eugene "Tom" Robbins
It's more important to be free than to be happy.
Eleanor Brown, fully Nora Eleanor Louisa Hervey Brown
Despite his money and his looks and all the good-on-paper attributes he possessed, he was not a reader, and, well, let's just say that is the sort of nonsense up with which we will not put.
People |