Henry Morgenthau Quotes

#1. The best social insurance is to make more progress, not to make more work

Bryan Caplan

#2. You will know who the enemy is intimidated by because they're the ones he targets and keeps beating down.

Donna Lynn Hope

#3. We [Federal Government] have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work.

Henry Morgenthau Jr.

#4. The law says they aren't allowed to share the info with anyone else, but of course they did - who wouldn't? - so now we're marked for life. His picture is even posted on the New Jersey Sex Offender Internet Registry.

Laura Wiess

#5. Some memories are realities and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again.

Willa Cather

#6. I now have absolute proof that smoking even one marijuana cigarette is equal in brain damage to being on Bikini Island during an H-bomb blast

Ronald Reagan

#7. Nine tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time.

Theodore Roosevelt

#8. Zionism is the most stupendous fallacy in Jewish history

Henry Morgenthau, Sr.

#9. Our life moves in a cycle of construction and destruction. Ideas and phases; come, we implement, and then we let go.

Hina Hashmi

#10. There would not be any absolute necessity for reserve if the world were honest; yet even then it would prove expedient. For, in order to attain any degree of deference, it seems necessary that people should imagine you have more accomplishments than you discover.

William Shenstone

#11. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. I want to see people get enough to eat. We have never made good on our promises.

Henry Morgenthau Jr.

#12. I had a feeling Aunt Bette was thinking of taking on the Russian mob.

Kristen Ashley

#13. In that world where jingles replace doxology, God is not free and the people know no justice or compassion.

Walter Brueggemann

#14. One in eight plant species face extinction.

David Attenborough

#15. It's important to be true to the events, but the most important thing is to get to the essence of the experience. Not to be bogged down in an academic way by a notion of the truth. First of all, the truth is an illusive and spurious concept.

Mike Leigh

#16. Never in the history of the world has there been a situation so bad that the government can't make it worse.

Henry Morgenthau Jr.

#17. forms of printing and recording. The study of language and communication by anthropologists developed out of the European tradition of linguistics, which usually is associated with disciplines

Michael Rynkiewich

#18. Before I was known, I would go on stage and pretend I was other people. Once I pretended I was mentally handicapped. It was really wrong. One time I was a bad magician. And one time I pretended I was a Christian comic.

Andy Dick

#19. Hat-making is laborious and time-consuming. It's a very tactile medium, and you can develop the skills, but it's one of those things: you either have it, or you don't. I love bringing something to fruition with my hands that gives people pleasure.

Philip Treacy