Your Favorite Quotes

[Sailor Steve]

“To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.”
—Novalis (Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg [1772-1801])

[Jimbuna]

I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place.

Winston Churchill

[TarJak]

Sometimes you Win and sometimes you Learn.- Anonymous

[Jimbuna]

No idea is so outlandish that it should not be considered with a searching but at the same time a steady eye.

Winston Churchill

[Mittelwaechter]

There is no such a thing in America as an independent press, unless it is out in country towns. You are all slaves. You know it, and I know it. There is not one of you who dares to express an honest opinion. If you expressed it, you would know beforehand that it would never appear in print. I am paid $150 for keeping honest opinions out of the paper I am connected with. Others of you are paid similar salaries for doing similar things. If I should allow honest opinions to be printed in one issue of my paper, I would be like Othello before twenty-four hours: my occupation would be gone. The man who would be so foolish as to write honest opinions would be out on the street hunting for another job. The business of a New York journalist is to distort the truth, to lie outright, to pervert, to villify, to fawn at the feet of Mammon, and to sell his country and his race for his daily bread, or for what is about the same — his salary. You know this, and I know it; and what foolery to be toasting an "Independent Press"! We are the tools and vassals of rich men behind the scenes. We are jumping-jacks. They pull the string and we dance. Our time, our talents, our lives, our possibilities, are all the property of other men. We are intellectual prostitutes.

John Swinton (1829–1901), Scottish-American journalist, newspaper publisher, and orator

[Gunsilnger]

Are movie quotes ok?

John Voight, as FDR.
" I like sub commanders. They have no time for bull...., and neither do I"

[Paulebaer1979]

"There is always something." Or in german: "Irgendwas ist ja immer." From my Sonarchief.

"Some day you´ll loose - some day the others will win." I don´t know who sayd this.

"There are two type of ships - subs and targets." I don´t know who sayd this.

[Sailor Steve]

"The well-being of democracies, regardless of their type and status, is dependent on one small technical detail: The right to vote. Everything else is secondary."
—Jose Ortega y Gasset

[Jimbuna]

Before Alamein we never had a victory. After Alamein we never had a defeat.

Winston Churchill

[Sailor Steve]

"He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his own enemy against oppression."
—Thomas Paine

[Sailor Steve]

"Society in every state is a blessing, but a government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one."
—Thomas Paine

[Jimbuna]

We do not covet anything from any nation except their respect.

Winston Churchill

[TarJak]

"The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy" -Abraham Lincoln, 1864

[Sailor Steve]

Originally Posted by TarJak

"The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy" -Abraham Lincoln, 1864

Seen that one many many times, usually with a picture of Benjamin Franklin.

[Jimbuna]

Originally Posted by TarJak

"The problem with internet quotes is that you cant always depend on their accuracy" -Abraham Lincoln, 1864

Abraham Lincoln 2012

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1611224/