Paul Harvey
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.Collection: Government
The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.Collection: Family
I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.Collection: Money
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.Collection: Government
In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.Collection: Time
Self-government won't work without self-discipline.Collection: Work
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.Collection: Sports
Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.Collection: Government
If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?Collection: Government
When your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.
Now you know the rest of the story.
One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.
When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.
Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I've been uncomfortable looking back.
Cut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.
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.
Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.
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.
I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.
A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.
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.
Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.
It was self-serving politicians who convinced recent generations of Americans that we could all stand in a circle with our hands in each other’s pockets and somehow get rich.Collection: Self
Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.Collection: College
Man — despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments — owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.Collection: Rain
You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.Collection: Way
If we cannot count on ourselves to do the right thing how can we count on anyone or anything else? Self-government won't work without self-discipline.Collection: Government
They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?Collection: Gun
We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.Collection: Men
I hope someday to have so much of what the world calls success, that people will ask me, "What's your secret?" and I will tell them, "I just get up again when I fall down."Collection: Success
The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.Collection: Years
Growth is the process of responding positively to change.Collection: Growth
If you don't live it, you don't believe it.Collection: Believe
Fathers are men who give daughters away to other men who aren't nearly good enough...so they can have grandchildren who are smarter than anybody's.Collection: Daughter
Not everybody wants to call sin 'sin'! Some call it mischief. Some call it rebellion. And hardly anybody can agree where we should draw the line. ... Our courts are ... trying to define pornography, yet moral law is very specific to any reader of God's Word.Collection: Law
These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.Collection: Disappointment
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.Collection: Animal
If you found yourself in a situation where you could either save a drowning man, or you could take a Pulitzer prize winning photograph of him drowning, what shutter speed and setting would you use?Collection: Funny
In small towns as well as large, good people outnumber bad people by 100 to 1. In big towns the 100 are nervous. But in small towns, it's the one.Collection: People
Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.Collection: People
I have never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.Collection: Encouragement
Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.Collection: Inspirational
When Dr. Manner reported on the total remission of breast cancer in lab animals (Using 'Laetrile in conjunction with vitamins and enzymes')..., ACS President, Ben Byrd, criticised (him) for making his announcement in public, and said such announcements should be made only in a proper scientific forum.Collection: Cancer
Each generation imagines that we're all going to hell. Each generation goes through a little hell and comes out heat tempered and better than before.Collection: Humanity
Stay in your seat come times of trouble. Its only people who jump off the roller coaster who get hurt.Collection: Hurt
The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.Collection: Political
For me, success is, during this early pilgrimage, to leave the woodpile a little higher than I found it.Collection: Littles
Oh, things always get better. Tomorrow will always be better. Just think about it . . . is there any time in history in which you'd rather live than now?Collection: Thinking