La Guardia Quotes

#1. 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

#2. When I make a mistake, it's a beauty!

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#3. You cannot preach self-government and liberty to people in a starving land.

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#4. 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

#5. Intelligence is perhaps but a malady, -a beautiful malady; the oysters's pearl.

Remy De Gourmont

#6. 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

#7. He moved in a world of chaos of self, fearful and astonished to be here, right here, alive in a pine-paneled bedroom.

Michael Cunningham

#8. Only a well-fed, well-housed, well-schooled people can enjoy the blessings of liberty.

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#9. The Chief smiled. In his eyes, there was no resistance, no remorse, no sadness, no fear, no pain. Nothing. There was no soul

Jennifer Hillier

#10. Everyone has a private self and a public self.

Kevin Conroy

#11. 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

#12. An industry that cannot pay its workers a decent living wage has no right to exist.

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#13. Walker liked to joke that, together, he and his wife owned the entire glass. He took the half-full part, while she usually claimed the empty half.

Alan Orloff

#14. 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

#15. 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

#16. Just give me the antibiotic," Esperanza said. "Of course I'll be infected again! I'm a prostitute.

John Irving

#17. 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

#18. 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

#19. I am certain that the good Lord never intended grapes to be made into grape jelly.

Fiorello H. La Guardia

#20. 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

#21. I am not hugely famous; I am not a name. For me, it's not the size of the role, it's the material and the people you are working with.

Ruth Negga

#22. I don't love Beau yet, I don't think. But being with him feels like a better version of being alone, and in that way, I think we are each other's.

Emily Henry