Socialism Harry Truman Quotes & Sayings

All of you, I am sure, have heard many cries about Government interference with business and about "creeping socialism." I should like to remind the gentlemen who make these complaints that if events had been allowed to continue as they were going prior to March 4, 1933, most of them would have no businesses left for the Government or for anyone else to interfere with - and almost surely we would have socialism in this country, real socialism. — Harry Truman

I'm not super conservative, and I have no problem with people being risque or owning your sexuality or even putting it out there. I have a problem when it's all you are because you're not being fair to yourself; you have more depth than this. — Kelly Clarkson

You know its shape, since you have it. Give it up, and be paid. Or don't - and be paid, hani, be paid then too. — C.J. Cherryh

Live up to your expectation and grow up to your determination. — Debasish Mridha

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope. — Alexander Payne

Never lose your self-respect, nor be too familiar with yourself when you are alone. Let your integrity itself be your own standard of rectitude, and be more indebted to the severity of your own judgment of yourself than to all external percepts. Desist from unseemly conduct, rather out of respect for your own virtue than for the strictures of external authority. — Baltasar Gracian

All stress inhibits true and effective learning. — Michel Thomas

Never bring a gun to a fight where the other guy has a time-machine and tomorrow's newspapers. — James Nicoll

We are a nation of immigrants, but we are also a nation of laws. — Elton Gallegly

The Arab soul is broken by poverty, unemployment, and general recession. The Tunisian revolution is not far from us. The Arab citizen entered an unprecedented state of anger and frustration. — Amr Moussa

The Federal Government is rendered weak to do wrong, and powerful to do right: for, as soon as it begins to go wrong, it naturally begins to be divided against itself, and the three great wheels of its machinery exhaust their momentum, or wear each other out, in their friction against each other; while, as soon as it begins to go right, all the parts work harmoniously, and exhaust their full strength on the object of their action. — William Batchelder Greene

If people thought about food more like how we think about the environment, a lot of people would be eating differently and the whole system would look a lot different. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictions word, preserves contact - it is silence which isolates. — Thomas E. Mann

I've heard people say that the more you like someone, the more you think they are beautiful even if you didn't think so in the beginning. — Jenny Han

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard ... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true. — E. O. Wilson

If Obama's vision of the public sector is socialism, then so too were the visions of Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin Roosevelt, Harry Truman, Dwight Eisenhower, John Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and Richard Nixon. — Jeff Greenfield