Top 36 Guardia Quotes
#1. As Carmen of the Guardia Civil remarked, the Guardia themselves provide enough crime to obviate the need for involving citizens.
S.H. Villa
#2. Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#3. Governments have ever been known to hold a high hand over the education of the people. They know, better than anyone else, that their power is based almost entirely on the school. Hence, they monopolize it more and more.
Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
#4. Two or three angels Came near to the earth. They saw a fat church. Little black streams of people Came and went in continually. And the angels were puzzled To know why the people went thus, And why they stayed so long within.
Stephen Crane
#5. Politics is very much like taxes - everybody is against them, or everybody is for them as long as they don't apply to him
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#6. When the masses become better informed about science, they will feel less need for help form supernatural Higher Powers. The need for religion will end when man becomes sensible enough to govern himself.
Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
#7. All heart surgeons are bastards, and Conway is no exception.
Michael Crichton
#8. My generation has failed miserably. We've failed because of lack of courage and vision. It requires more courage to keep the peace than to go to war.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#9. Nothing agrees with me. If I drink coffee, it gives me dyspepsia; if I drink wine, it gives me the gout; if I go to church, it gives me dysentery.
Mark Twain
#10. Through Jesus, your past is explained, your present has a purpose, and your future is secure. What more could you really want in life?
Jase Robertson
#11. What should we speak of When we are old as you? when we shall hear The rain and wind beat dark December? how, In this our pinching cave, shall we discourse The freezing hours away? ...
William Shakespeare
#13. Prohibition cannot be enforced for the simple reason that the majority of American people do not want it enforced and are resisting its enforcement.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#14. I joined the Labour Party not because it was Left Wing, but because it was definitely internationalists and would seem to be the group in the Labour Party which would serve my purpose best for propaganda along internationalist lines.
Norman Angell
#15. It is impossible to tell whether prohibition is a good thing or a bad thing. It has never been enforced in this country.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#17. I am very indebted to southern writers and not just Flannery O'Connor. Also Harry Crews, Larry Brown, Tennessee Williams, Barry Hannah and William Gay.
Donald Ray Pollock
#18. I will fall in love with any golf course that you have to drive the ball straight. You understand what I'm saying? That's my advantage. My advantage wasn't putting. In fact, I wasn't even a great putter or a good putter.
Lee Trevino
#20. God took the beauty of the Bay of Naples, the Valley of the Nile, the Swiss Alps, the Hudson River Valley, rolled them into one and made San Francisco Bay.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#21. An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#23. Growing up, I always had two interests and two passions; one being public service and the other being the arts and acting.
Kal Penn
#24. Live from Babylon and Ur, From Athens and Alexandria and Rome, The voices of a thousand generations, Press us, Urge us on-.
Jack McDevitt
#25. The Devil is easy to identify. He appears when you're terribly tired and makes a very reasonable request which you know you shouldn't grant.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#26. I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#27. Science knows no politics. Are we in this frenzy of [the Depression] economy, brought about by those who control the wealth of this country, seeking to put a barrier on science and research for the paltry sum of $39,113 out of an appropriation of $100,000,000?
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#28. I don't conduct myself like a rock 'n' roll star in my day-to-day living. Am I a celebrity? Yes. Do people recognize me on the street? Yes, they do. But at the same time, it's not a media center out here. People get used to you.
Dee Snider
#29. The most humble research scientist in the Department of Agriculture is at this time contributing more to this country than the most useful member of Congress.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#30. It is a conspicuous fact in our modern Christian society that as a result and cumulation of our partriarchal development, the woman does not belong to herself ... Man has made her a perpetual minor.
Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
#31. I desire that on no occasion ... shall demonstrations of a political or religious character be made before my remains.
Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
#32. We will not, therefore, lose our time praying to an imaginary god for things which our own exertions alone can procure.
Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
#34. When thier god and his exploiters cease to be adored and served, we shall live like comrades in mutual affection.
Francesc Ferrer I Guardia
#35. We have had two chickens in every pot, two cars in every garage, and now we have two headaches for every aspirin.
Fiorello H. La Guardia
#36. I usually am thinking about my next book the second I put the last dot on the previous one that I turn in.
Greg Graffin
