Fortune Quote

Friday, November 30, 2018

A straw vote only shows which way the hot air blows. -- O'Henry

A statesman is a politician who's been dead 10 or 15 years. --
Harry S Truman

A sect or party is an elegant incognito devised to save a man from the
vexation of thinking. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson, Journals, 1831

A prisoner of war is a man who tries to kill you and fails, and then asks
you not to kill him. -- Sir Winston Churchill, 1952

A national debt, if it is not excessive, will be to us a national
blessing. -- Alexander Hamilton

"A great nation is any mob of people which produces at least one honest
man a century."

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the
edges. -- B. Franklin

A government that is big enough to give you all you want is big enough to
take it all away. -- Barry Goldwater

A general leading the State Department resembles a dragon commanding
ducks. -- New York Times, Jan. 20, 1981

A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to hell in such a way that
you actually look forward to the trip. -- Caskie Stinnett, "Out of
the Red"