American - Journalist | September 4, 1918 - February 28, 2009
I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.
Paul Harvey
LifeMyselfDayManMeSmall
We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.
GovernmentRememberKnowPoorHungry
When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.
DownfallIncomeMayYour
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
TodayTomorrowBetterWillAlways
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
PracticeDeadUpTakePracticing
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.
MoneyI AmMouthLoyalWhereThose
If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.
ChanceWrongGoWillOutSomething
Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.
YouSomethingLikeElse
What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is 'Sir' to his face and 'Fuzz' to his back.
MenFaceBackUnwantedMadeMost
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
PeopleSayPoorPoor PeopleCome
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.
GovernmentSufferingYouVoteWhy
As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.
WingsLaborOwnIndustryEighties
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