Paul Harvey Quotes

Communism has defeated itself everywhere except... in American colleges.

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

You can always tell when you are on the road to success; it's uphill all the way.

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.

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

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.

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.

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

They have gun control in Cuba. They have universal health care in Cuba. So why do they want to come here?

We've drifted away from being fishers of men to being keepers of the aquarium.

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."

The years don't always add wisdom, but they do add perspective.

Growth is the process of responding positively to change.

If you don't live it, you don't believe it.

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.

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.

These things I wish for you-tough times and disappointment, hard work and happiness. To me, it's the only way to appreciate life.

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.

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?

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.

Luck is a word used to describe the success of people you don't like.

Breath is perhaps the first thing we have in life. It's how we measure the starting of life and it's how we measure the ending of life.

Golf is a game in which you yell "for," shoot six, and write down five.

Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.

The indignation of politicians is NOT a good measure of the gravity of any situation.