John Sherman Quotes

The best prophet of the future is the past.

If we will not endure a king as a political power, we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of any of the necessaries of life.

It's time to stop producing stuff, and start producing fun.

We are told that this is an odious and unpopular tax. I never knew a tax that was not odious and unpopular with the people who paid it.

I never initiated nor did the FBI ever initiate any conversation or correspondence with me.

Sometimes the best gear for a climb is a good excuse.

It lasted but a year of two, till all the routes were done. The pace so fast that most forgot that climbing could be fun.

The police had already found the cartridges and the rifles and the bag in the Texas School Depository and within a half an hour, those facts were known.

Then came a bigger fear. Not the threat of imminent injury, but the fear that if I didn't go back up, I would be a chickenshit forever.