Quotes

A good photograph is knowing where to stand.

Ansel Adams

We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.

Abigail Adams

Learning is not attained by chance, it must be sought for with ardor and diligence.

Abigail Adams

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice, or representation.

Abigail Adams

I've always felt that a person's intelligence is directly reflected by the number of conflicting points of view he can entertain simultaneously on the same topic.

Abigail Adams

Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of husbands. Remember all men would be tyrants if they could.

Abigail Adams

There were people coming in here from New York, California, Chicago, all different places that had publishing companies, trying to buy my songs.

Roy Acuff

The greatest thing the Democrats have ever done for me was to defeat me for the governor of Tennessee.

Roy Acuff

Put your trust in the Lord and go ahead. Worry gets you no place.

Roy Acuff

I don't owe one man one cent. Anywhere.

Roy Acuff

Don't be a blueprint. Be an original.

Roy Acuff

To be able to look back upon one's past life with satisfaction is to live twice.

Lord Acton

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Lord Acton

The one pervading evil of democracy is the tyranny of the party that succeeds, by force or fraud, in carrying elections.

Lord Acton

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Lord Acton

The danger is not that a particular class is unfit to govern. Every class is unfit to govern.

Lord Acton

Property is not the sacred right. When a rich man becomes poor it is a misfortune, it is not a moral evil. When a poor man becomes destitute, it is a moral evil, teeming with consequences and injurious to society and morality.

Lord Acton

Power tends to corrupt and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.

Lord Acton

Opinions alter, manners change, creeds rise and fall, but the moral laws are written on the table of eternity.

Lord Acton