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

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

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.

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

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

Now you know the rest of the story.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

This monument is going to be built as a symbol.

If you seek Hamilton's monument, look around. You are living in it. We honor Jefferson, but live in Hamilton's country, a mighty industrial nation with a strong central government.

It is a sad commentary that today we face a choice between having schools that are a monument to our past - or schools that will be the lifeblood of our future. But since that is our choice, let us resolve to choose wisely.

But every great scripture, whether Hebrew, Indian, Persian, or Chinese, apart from its religious value will be found to have some rare and special beauty of its own; and in this respect the original Bible stands very high as a monument of sublime poetry and of artistic prose.

I've done an awful lot of stuff that's a monument to public patience.

The name Peace River itself is the monument of a successful effort on the part of the Company to bring about a better understanding between the Crees and the Beavers.

After I'm dead I'd rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.

I don't mind being a symbol but I don't want to become a monument. There are monuments all over the Parliament Buildings and I've seen what the pigeons do to them.

You see, greatness for a state doesn't require some huge monument for all to see. It is not a journey to a particular destination - but a commitment to follow a course of constant and never-ending improvement.

New York City is a great monument to the power of money and greed... a race for rent.

Tombs are the clothes of the dead and a grave is a plain suit; while an expensive monument is one with embroidery.

Well, I think everybody's a little jealous of the Vietnam Wall, even people from wars that already have good monuments. You have a monument like the Wall and nobody ever forgets your war, you can bet on that.

I started studying what the nature of a monument is and what a monument should be. And for the World War III memorial I designed a futile, almost terrifying passage that ends nowhere.

Hardly a name in profane history is more august than his. Hardly another character in the world's record has made so little of its opportunities. His discovery was a blunder; his blunder was a new world; the New World is his monument.