Life Quotes

Religious conflict can be the bloodiest and cruelest conflicts that turn people into fanatics.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

The principle inherent in the clause that prohibits pointless infliction of excessive punishment when less severe punishment can adequately achieve the same purposes invalidates the punishment.

William J. Brennan, Jr.

The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of error.

William Jennings Bryan

One miracle is just as easy to believe as another.

William Jennings Bryan

Eloquent speech is not from lip to ear, but rather from heart to heart.

William Jennings Bryan

All the ills from which America suffers can be traced to the teaching of evolution.

William Jennings Bryan

Never be afraid to stand with the minority when the minority is right, for the minority which is right will one day be the majority.

William Jennings Bryan

There is no more reason to believe that man descended from some inferior animal than there is to believe that a stately mansion has descended from a small cottage.

William Jennings Bryan

We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.

William J. H. Boetcker

The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.

William J. H. Boetcker

Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable that a brick without a flaw.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.

William J. H. Boetcker

You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.

William J. H. Boetcker

Horror does not interest me, and so I know little of its practicioners, old or current.

William Peter Blatty

I lived in Georgetown in the late '70s about four houses down from the steps.

William Peter Blatty

I'm not aware that I was consciously influenced by any director, though these things often happen unnoticed, submerged in the unconscious.

William Peter Blatty

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.

William Rose Benet

Blue oblivion, largely lit, smiled and smiled at me.

William Rose Benet