William Lewis Safir (William Safire) Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
I make a mean cup of coffee, if you give me the right ingredients.
-
I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.
-
We're concerned how gambling and betting affects the NHL game and changes the perception of and challenges the integrity of the NHL game.
-
But living in uncertain times does not mean San Franciscans must live in fear.
-
The disappearance of the Jewish state will not mean the disappearance of anti-Semitism.
-
For most of our history, Americans enjoyed both liberty and security from foreign threats.
-
Eliminating fighting would mean eliminating the jobs of the 'fighters,' meaning these guys would not have NHL careers.
-
I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.
-
Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed.
-
I like the religion that teaches liberty, equality and fraternity.
-
One of the greatest gifts God ever gave to humanity was that of liberty. We love freedom and bloom under it. We cannot and should not try to force people to live by a certain religious code. To do so negates our free will.
-
Equality is the soul of liberty; there is, in fact, no liberty without it.
-
Big doesn't necessarily mean better. Sunflowers aren't better than violets.
-
Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
-
What more felicity can fall to creature, than to enjoy delight with liberty?
-
I say to you that the price of liberty is and always has been blood, human blood, and if our liberties are lost, we shall never regain them except at the price of blood. They must not be lost.
-
Tension is the great integrity.
-
With integrity, you have nothing to fear, since you have nothing to hide. With integrity, you will do the right thing, so you will have no guilt.
-
People always have an opinion. Doesn't mean it's right, doesn't mean it's wrong, but we have to respect their opinion.
-
And suddenly the moon withdraws her sickle from the lightening skies, and to her sombre cavern flies, wrapped in a veil of yellow gauze.
-
If you're crazy enough to put your hat into the ring of speculation and punditry, you're going to get some turbulence. But if it's coming from some journalist with a comfortable degree of body fat, I'm not losing any sleep over it.
-
Well, it's a good life and a good world, all said and done, if you don't weaken.
-
The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right.
