John Nance Garner Quotes

#1. Any tool is a weapon if you hold it right.

Ani DiFranco

#2. The trouble today is that we have too many laws.

John Nance Garner

#3. I sometimes wish I weren't as logical as I am and I wish I weren't as smart as I am, because I'd be happy.

Rush Limbaugh

#4. Chastity is not chastity in an old man, but a disability to be unchaste.

John Donne

#5. You have to do a little bragging on yourself even to your relatives-man doesn't get anywhere without advertising.

John Nance Garner

#6. Steep your life in God-reality, God-initiative, God-provisions. Don't worry about missing out. You'll find all your everyday human concerns will be met.

Eugene H. Peterson

#7. How can we preserve our aspirations and at the same time develop the toughness of mind and spirit to face the fact that there are no easy victories? One is a tough-minded recognition that the fight for a better world is a long one.

John Nance Garner

#8. Dying over an argument isn't honor, it's a waste of a man's life. A man volunteers to die for a cause he believes in, or to protect others he cares about. Any other reason is nothing more than stupidity." ~Ian Thornton

Judith McNaught

#9. I can bear scorpion's stings, tread fields of fire, in frozen gulfs of cold eternal lie, be tossed aloft through tracts of endless void, but cannot live in shame.

Joanna Baillie

#10. The effect of liberty to individuals is that they may do what they please; we ought to see what it will please them to do, before we risk congratulations which may be soon turned into complaints.

Edmund Burke

#11. The vice-presidency isnt worth a bucket of warm piss,

John Nance Garner

#12. Listen," he said gently and stepped closer. "No one can predict the future, but right now you're the most important thing to me. I would regret it for the rest of my life if we didn't give this a chance.

Angie Stanton

#13. The single biggest time waster in the world is not completing what you start.

John Nance Garner

#14. Worst damnfool mistake I ever made was letting myself be elected Vice-President of the United States. Should have stuck?as Speaker of the House? Gave up the second most important job in Government foreight long years as Roosevelt's spare tire.

John Nance Garner

#15. The Vice Presidency isn't worth a pitcher of warm spit.

John Nance Garner

#16. We can say either that we make progress little by little, or that we do not even expect to make progress. Just to be sincere and make our full effort in each moment is enough.

Shunryu Suzuki

#17. There's always a glamour of pain even in pleasure.

Shivam

#18. There is never a shortage anywhere of lawyers eager to attack the First Amendment, as though it were nothing more than a clause in a lease from a crooked slumlord.

Kurt Vonnegut

#19. Vice president: A spare tire on the automobile of government.

John Nance Garner

#20. I have always done what I thought was best for my country, never varying unless I was advised that two-thirds of the Democrats were for a bill and then I voted for it.

John Nance Garner