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Our greatest enemies, the ones we must fight most often, are within.
― Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine
SelfEsteem
Fighting
People
People may spend their whole lives climbing the ladder of success only to find, once they reach the top, that the ladder is leaning against the wrong wall.
― Thomas Merton
Thomas Merton
Wall
Climbing
People
When the people are afraid of the government, that's tyranny. But when the government is afraid of the people, that's liberty.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Government
People
Liberty
Whenever any form of government becomes destructive of these ends [life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness] it is the right of the people to alter or abolish it, and to institute new government.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
PursuitOfHappiness
Government
People
A private central bank issuing the public currency is a greater menace to the liberties of the people than a standing army. We must not let our rulers load us with perpetual debt.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
Army
People
Liberty
The Bible makes the best people in the world.
― Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson
People
World
Ninety-five percent of people who walk the earth are simply inert. One percent are saints, and one percent are assholes. The other three percent are people who do what they say they can do.
― Stephen King
People
Saint
Three
Stephen King
What Darwin was too polite to say, my friends, is that we came to rule the earth not because we were the smartest, or even the meanest, but because we have always been the craziest, most murderous motherfuckers in the jungle.
― Stephen King
Smart
Mean
People
Stephen King
People who try hard to do the right thing always seem mad.
― Stephen King
People
Mad
Trying
Stephen King
People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.
― Stephen Hawking
Anger
People
AlwaysComplaining
Stephen Hawking
The thing about smart people is that they seem like crazy people to dumb people.
― Stephen Hawking
Crazy
Smart
People
Stephen Hawking
It is very important for young people keep their sense of wonder and keep asking why.
― Stephen Hawking
AskingWhy
People
Important
Stephen Hawking
Five percent of the people think; ten percent of the people think they think; and the other eighty-five percent would rather die than think.
― Thomas A. Edison
Thomas A. Edison
Thinking
People
WillfulIgnorance
Look at the word responsibility-"response-ability"-the ability to choose your response. Highly proactive people recognize that responsibility. They do not blame circumstances, conditions, or conditioning for their behavior. Their behavior is a product of their own conscious choice, based on values, rather than a product of their conditions, based on feeling.
― Stephen Covey
Responsibility
People
Choices
Stephen Covey
Contrary to what people may say, there's no upper limit to stupidity.
― Stephen Colbert
People
Stupidity
May
Stephen Colbert
There can be no divided allegiance here. Any man who says he is an American, but something else also, isn't an American at all. We have room for but one flag, the American flag...We have room for but one language here, and that is the English language...and we have room for but one sole loyalty and that is a loyalty to the American people.
― Theodore Roosevelt
Loyalty
Men
People
Theodore Roosevelt
It is the people, and not the judges, who are entitled to say what their constitution means, for the constitution is theirs, it belongs to them and not to their servants in office—any other theory is incompatible with the foundation principles of our government.
― Theodore Roosevelt
Mean
Government
People
Theodore Roosevelt
Capitalism is going to deal itself out of existence, but before it does that, you're gonna pay $50 for a latte, because inflation is going impoverish all of us before people get pissed off enough to realize that all of the last hundred years of economic progress was actually a shell game to create billionaires, while the great masses of people saw their standard of living eroded and destroyed.
― Terence McKenna
Years
Games
People
Terence McKenna
Some people read their Bibles in Hebrew, some in Greek; I like to read mine in the Holy Ghost.
― Smith Wigglesworth
Bible
Christian
People
Smith Wigglesworth
There is something about believing God that will cause Him to pass over a million people to get to you
― Smith Wigglesworth
Believe
People
Causes
Smith Wigglesworth
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