Mary Elizabeth Lease Quotes

#1. What you farmers need to do is raise less corn and more Hell.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

#2. The beauty and riddle in studying the motives of any politician is in trying to decide what is idealism and what is self-interest; and often we are left to conclude that the answer is a mixture of the two.

Boris Johnson

#3. All failure is failure to adapt, all success is successful adaptation.

Max McKeown

#4. The United States of America will sound as pompously in the world or in history as The Kingdom of Great Britain.

Thomas Paine

#5. An organized effort is making to deceive the people. There are two great enemies of thought and progress, the aristocracy of royalty and the aristocracy of gold.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

#6. A mortgaged home, an empty stomach and a ragged back know no party. We will live to write the epitaphs of the old parties: "Died of general debility, old age, and chronic falsehoods."

Mary Elizabeth Lease

#7. I must say that anyone who passed through those years [of World War II] without understanding that man produces evil as a bee produces honey, must have been blind or wrong in the head.

William Golding

#8. Kansas had better stop raising corn and begin raising hell.

Mary Elizabeth Lease

#9. Tis no sin love's fruits to steal; But the sweet thefts to reveal; To be taken, to be seen, These have crimes accounted been.

Ben Jonson

#10. There is the liability of accepting prematurely an artificial horizon for our own character and personality, of losing the horizon of the possible person we might be. It is the danger of considering our character as something static, rather than as something emerging.

Halford Luccock