Mignon McLaughlin Quotes

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

If everyone gave a tenth of his worldly goods to the person he most admired, the rich would just get richer.

How strange that the young should always think the world is against them when in fact that is the only time it is for them.

We have to call it "freedom": who'd die for "a lesser tyranny"?

Be glad that you're greedy; the national economy would collapse if you weren't.

The plague of government is senile delinquency.

Sooner or later, they govern who are determined to.

What you were sure of yesterday, you know now to be false, but what you are sure of today is absolutely true.

The past is rich in lessons from which we would greatly profit except that the present is always so full of Special Circumstances.

Failure can get to be a rather comfortable old friend.

Age is a slowing down of everything except fear.

We are all such a waste of our potential, like three-way lamps using one-way bulbs.

Throughout our lives, we see in the mirror the same innocent trusting face we have seen there since childhood.

We catch frightful glimpses of ourselves in the hostile eyes of others.

Grasp your opportunities, no matter how poor your health; nothing is worse for your health than boredom.