I.B. George Quotes
That amid our highest civilization men faint and die with want is not due to the niggardliness of nature, but to the injustice of man.
The march of invention has clothed mankind with powers of which a century ago the boldest imagination could not have dreamt.
The value of a thing is the amount of laboring or work that its possession will save the possessor.
I do not think that any sorrow of youth or manhood equalled in intensity or duration the black and hopeless misery which followed the wrench of transference from a happy home to a school.
God showers upon us his gifts-more than enough for all; But like swine scrambling for food, we tread them in the mire, and rend each other.
The function of the politician, therefore, is one of continuous watchfulness and activity, and he must have intimate knowledge of details if he would work out grand results.
Lincoln's removal from New Salem to Springfield and his entrance into a law partnership with Major John T. Stuart begin a distinctively new period in his career.
In the early West, law and politics were parallel roads to usefulness as well as distinction.
It may be assumed as an axiom that Providence has never gifted any political party with all of political wisdom or blinded it with all of political folly.
Very few men are fortunate enough to gain distinction during their first term in Congress.
Thus we use our supposed "knowledge" of others to speak on their behalf, and condemn them for their words we ourselves put in their silent mouths.
Boredom is that awful state of inaction when the very medicine - that is, activity - which could solve it, is seen as odious.
I think Australians do well here because we feel a bit naughty, like we're in America and if they only knew how much fun we were having, we'd all get thrown out, you know.
Impressions arriving at the brain make it enter into activity, just as food falling into the stomach excites it to more abundant secretion of gastric juice.
Banks lend by creating credit. They create the means of payment out of nothing.
Much of what is called investment is actually nothing more than mergers and acquisitions, and of course mergers and acquisitions are generally accompanied by downsizing.
The World Development Movement, to take just one example, is doing good work. Some political parties are, too.
Men have been found to deny woman intellect; they have credited her with instinct, with intuition, with a capacity to correlate cause and effect much as a dog connects its collar with a walk.
I learned that kids in show business are so different from regular, average students. They would gather behind you and help you to succeed in any way possible.
He doesn't love you. But I love you. I want you to have your own thoughts and ideas and feelings, even when I hold you in my arms.
It is absolutely necessary... for me to have persons that can think for me, as well as execute orders.
Within certain limits, it is actually true that the less money you have, the less you worry.
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
Destiny stands by sarcastic with our dramatis personae folded in her hand.
England is the most class-ridden country under the sun. It is a land of snobbery and privilege, ruled largely by the old and silly.
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
Even if it's being a Beatle for the rest of my life, it's still only a temporary thing.
Perhaps I cannot make my people good, she told herself, but I should at least try to make them a little less bad.