John Quotes
I often feel like the director of a cemetery. I have a lot of people under me but nobody listens!
There is hardly anything in the world that some man can't make a little worse and sell a little cheaper and the people who consider price only are this man's lawful prey.
We shall be Canadians first foremost and always and our policies will be decided in Canada and not dictated by any other country.
Confederation is only yet in the gristle and it will require five years more before it hardens into bone.
One of the best-kept secrets in America is that people are aching to make a commitment if they only had the freedom and environment in which to do so.
The corporation is an artificial being invisible intangible and existing only in contemplation of law.
Good management consists of showing average people how to do the work of superior people.
The ability to deal with people is as purchasable a commodity as sugar or coffee. And I pay more for that ability than for any other under the sun.
Knowledge cannot defile nor consequently the books if the will and conscience be not defiled.
We can never be sure that the opinion we are endeavouring to stifle is a false opinion and if we were sure stifling it would be an evil still.
I believe that this neglected wounded inner child of the past is the major source of human misery.
Tis e'er the wont of simple folk to prize the deed and overlook the motive and of learned folk to discount the deed and lay open the soul of the doer.
Organized charity scrimped and iced In the name of the cautious statistical Christ.
I think that saving a little child And bringing him to his own Is a derned sight better business Than loafing around the throne.
Books ... rarely if ever talk about what children can make of themselves about the powers that from the day or moment of birth are present in every child.
I don't care a damn for your loyal service when you think I am right when I really want it most is when you think I am wrong.
The principle of neutrality ... has increasingly become an obsolete conception and except under very special circumstances it is an immoral and shortsighted conception.
It is easy enough to praise men for the courage of their convictions. I wish I could teach the sad young of this mealy generation the courage of their confusions.
Fight on my merry men all I'm a little wounded but I am not slain I will lay me down for to bleed a while Then I'll rise and fight with you again.
Get in front of the ball you won't get hurt. That's what you've got a chest for young man.
Courage and perseverance have a magical talisman before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish into air.
The only freedom which deserves the name is that of pursuing our own good in our own way so long as we do not attempt to deprive others of theirs or impede their efforts to obtain it.
The reality is that changes are coming. ... They must come. You must share in bringing them.
New opinions are always suspected and usually opposed without any other reason but because they are not already common.
True consistency that of the prudent and the wise is to act in conformity with circumstances and not to act always the same way under a change of circumstances.
No matter how old you get if you can keep the desire to be creative you're keeping the man-child alive.
To many people dramatic criticism must seem like an attempt to tattoo soap bubbles.
There is no death! the stars go down To rise upon some other shore And bright in Heaven's jeweled crown They shine for ever more.
