July Quotes - Page 8

Here is the ghost Of a summer that lived for us, Ere is a promise Of summer to be.

The natural progress of things is for liberty to yield and government to gain ground.

If I had my way, I'd remove January from the calendar altogether and have an extra July instead.

A man who won't die for something is not fit to live.

What is the essence of America? The essence of America is finding and maintaining that perfect, delicate balance between freedom "to" and freedom "from."

Freedom is never dear at any price. It is the breath of life. What would a man not pay for living?

Arbitrary power is most easily established on the ruins of liberty abused to licentiousness.

Freedom cannot be bestowed - it must be achieved.

No one's gonna give a damn in July if you lost a game in March.

I used to say the evening that I developed the first x-ray photograph I took of insulin in 1935 was the most exciting moment of my life. But the Saturday afternoon in late July 1969, when we realized that the insulin electron density map was interpretable, runs that moment very close.

There are no necessary evils in government. Its evils exist only in its abuses. If it would confine itself to equal protection, and, as Heaven does its rains, shower its favors alike on the high and the low, the rich and the poor, it would be an unqualified blessing.

When wrongs are pressed because it is believed they will be borne, resistance becomes morality.

Every July, I look forward to taping a Christmas show - in July in Nashville. In 98-degree weather. I love it.

The thinnest yellow light of November is more warming and exhilarating than any wine they tell of. The mite which November contributes becomes equal in value to the bounty of July.

Nothing can be more hurtful to the service, than the neglect of discipline; for that discipline, more than numbers, gives one army the superiority over another.

A government is like fire, a handy servant, but a dangerous master.

Wars may be fought with weapons, but they are won by men.

A great man, tender of heart, strong of nerve, boundless patience and broadest sympathy, with no motive apart from his country.

He that lives upon hope will die fasting.

Idleness and pride tax with a heavier hand than kings and governments.

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

But in a larger sense, we cannot dedicate, we cannot consecrate, we cannot hallow this ground. The brave men, living and dead, who struggled here, have consecrated it, far above our poor power to add or to detract. The world will little note, nor long remember what we say here, but it can never forget what they did here.

Our great modern Republic. May those who seek the blessings of its institutions and the protection of its flag remember the obligations they impose.

We have been in recess since July, and during that time there has been a fuel crisis, a Danish no vote, the collapse of the euro and a war in the middle east, but what is our business tomorrow? The Insolvency Bill [Lords]. It ought to be called the Bankruptcy Bill [Commons], because we play no role.

I want to be treated like a human being.