Elisabeth Leamy famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • I see in the near future a crisis approaching that unnerves me and causes me to tremble for the safety of my country. . . . corporations have been enthroned and an era of corruption in high places will follow, and the money power of the country will endeavor to prolong its reign by working upon the prejudices of the people until all wealth is aggregated in a few hands and the Republic is destroyed.

  • As to your kind wishes for myself, allow me to say I can not enter the ring on the money basis--first, because, in the main, it iswrong; and secondly, I have not, and can not get, the money. I say, in the main, the use of money is wrong; but for certain objects, in a political contest, the use of some, is both right, and indispensable.

  • Any informed borrower is simply less vulnerable to fraud and abuse.

  • If you want to shine like the sun, first burn like the sun.

  • No matter how powerful, countries cannot rule the whole world. The world is ruled by brains, by justice, by morals and by fairness.

  • If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?

  • You smile upon your friend to-day, To-day his ills are over; You hearken to the lover's say, And happy is the lover. 'Tis late to hearken, late to smile, But better late than never: I shall have lived a little while Before I die for ever.

  • Fascism was little more than terrorist rule by corrupt gangsters. Mussolini was not corrupt himself but he did nothing except to rage impotently.

  • Some men, like spaniels, will only fawn the more when repulsed, but will pay little heed to a friendly caress.

  • It is almost impossible to throw dirt on someone without getting a little on yourself

You may also like: