Today Quotes
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Whether you like it or not, history is on our side. We will bury you.Nikita Khrushchev, remark at the Polish embasy in Moscow, Nov. 18, 1956
I once said, "We will bury you," and I got into trouble with it. Of course we will not bury you with a shovel. Your own working class will bury you.Nikita Khrushchev, Speech in Yugoslavia, Aug. 24, 1963
In all things that involve social pressures, if we want to see change we have to force the envelope outwards.Gary Lee Phillips
Men are conservatives when they are least vigorous, or when they are most luxurious. They are conservatives after dinner.Ralph Waldo Emerson, New England Reformers, 1844
A conservative government is an organized hypocrisy.Benjamin Disraeli, Speech in the House of Commons, Mar. 3, 1845
The true conservative is the man who has a real concern for injustices and takes thought against the day of reckoning.Franklin D. Roosevelt, Speech in Syracuse, NY Sep. 29, 1936
A conservative is a man with two perfectly good legs who, however, has never learned to walk forward.Franklin D. Roosevelt, radio address, Oct. 26, 1939
Some men look at constitutions with sanctimonious reverence, and deem them like the ark of the covenant, too sacred to be touched.Thomas Jefferson, Resolutions, 1803
Our constitution works. Our great republic is a government of laws, not of men.Gerald R. Ford, on becoming President, Aug. 9, 1974
People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.Frederick Douglass