Ricketson Quotes & Sayings

I must have got my detailed, obsessive streak from my father, who was an English teacher, because my mother wasn't like me at all. — Barbra Streisand

Wars are the strongest evidence for the claim that man is still a wild animal. — Mehmet Murat Ildan

To steale the Hog, and give the feet for almes.
[To steal the hog, and give the feet to alms.] — George Herbert

I'm a Russian. Without the Motherland, I'd be nothing. — Simon Sebag Montefiore

It has ever been the tendency of power to add to itself, to enlarge its sphere, to encroach beyond the limits set for it; and where the habit of resisting such encroachment is not fostered, and the individual is not taught to be jealous of his rights, individuality gradually disappears and the government or State becomes the all-in-all. — Benjamin Ricketson Tucker

It is much to be lamented that a man of Franklin's general good character and great influence should have been an unbeliever in Christianity, and also have done as much as he did to make others unbelievers. — Benjamin Franklin

Our soft hearts are what tell us that, whatever the circumstances of birth, everyone must be given opportunities to do well. — Sendhil Mullainathan