Paul Harvey

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.

What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is 'Sir' to his face and 'Fuzz' to his back.

Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.

I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.

As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.

Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I've been uncomfortable looking back.

In times like these it is good to remember that there have always been times like these.

Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.

A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.

If there is a 50 50 chance that something can go wrong then 9 times out of ten it will.

Now you know the rest of the story.

The spirit of interdependence will not cost us more than it's worth. On the steep slope ahead, holding hands is necessary. And it just might be that we can learn to enjoy it.

Golf is a game in which you yell fore shoot six and write down five.

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.

When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

Like what you do, if you don't like it, do something else.

Golf is a game in which you yell "fore," shoot six, and write down five.

The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.

Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.

I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.

Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.