"What's good for the United States is good for the New York Stock Exchange. But what's good for the New York Stock Exchange might not be good for the United States."

-- William McChesney Martin

#New York Quotes #United States Quotes #Might Quotes

“Piscary killed people, but he didnâ€™t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish and to stop eating people. But Trent? He knew he was doing wrong, and he did it anyway.”
“He that alone would wise and mighty be,Commands that others love as well as he.Love as he lov'd! - How can we soar so high?-He can add wings when he commands to fly.Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;He that examples gives will give his aid:For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.”
“You can't really protect women or men from their choices, so let them have their own lives and trust the process. Given the history of society's efforts to control women's sexuality and reproduction, this remained a revolutionary idea. No wonder it disturbed and frightened some people so deeply.”
“Either you care, or you don't. There's no in-between. And if you care, then go all of the way.”
“An old battleax of a woman said to Winston Churchill, "If you were my husband I would put poison in your tea." Churchill's response, "Ma'am if you were my wife I would drink it.”
“Young men, terminate, I beseech you, in your own experience, the sad divorce which has too often existed between intellect and piety. Take your stand, unswerving, heroic, by the altar of truth; and from that altar let neither sophistry nor ridicule expel you. Let your faith rest with a child's trust, with a martyr's grip, upon the truth as it is in Jesus.”

Source : William Morley Punshon (1857). “John Bunyan, a lecture”, p.24
“If Edison was worried about his candle customers, he would have never invented the light bulb.”
“I do what I do. You like it, great. You don't, go listen to somebody else. I'm stickin' with the people who stuck with me.”

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