Vachss Zero Quotes & Sayings

Being a patriot doesn't mean prioritizing service to government above all else. Being a patriot means knowing when to protect your country, knowing when to protect your Constitution, knowing when to protect your countrymen, from the violations of and encroachments of adversaries. And those adversaries don't have to be foreign countries. — Edward Snowden

Hold on with a bulldog grip, and chew and choke as much as possible. — Abraham Lincoln

Nobody has a more sacred obligation to obey the law than those who make the law. — Jean Anouilh

Service is the measure of greatness; it always has been true; it is true today, and it always will be true, that he is greatest who does the most of good. Nearly all of our controversies and combats grow out of the fact that we are trying to get something from each other
there will be peace when our aim is to do something for each other. The human measure of a human life is its income; the divine measure of a life is its outgo, its overflow
its contribution to the welfare of all. — William Jennings Bryan

Bridges are built not to cross over it but it is built to lift you to the other side safely. — Edwin Lawrence

If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity. — Emily Blunt

Every man should measure himself by his own standard.
[Lat., Metiri se quemque suo modulo ac pede verum est.] — Horace

Were possible for a man to discover a mode of existence in which he could feel that, though idle, he was of use to the world and fulfilling his duty, — Leo Tolstoy

Always, through my whole life, I've had a thirst for knowledge. — Emmitt Smith

The best version of comedy is when you can get to an issue where, at some point, you're not firmly on one side or the other, and you can see both sides. The more we become about the issues, the more successful we are. — W. Kamau Bell