Salvatore Leone > Salvatore's Quotes

“Americans never quit.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“Better to fight for something than live for nothing.”
― George S. Patton

“An intellectual is a man who takes more words than necessary to tell more than he knows.”
― Dwight D. Eisenhower

“Age wrinkles the body; quitting wrinkles the soul.”
― Douglas MacArthur

“There is no friend as loyal as a book.”
― Ernest Hemingway

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“If you want to find out what a man is to the bottom, give him power. Any man can stand adversity — only a great man can stand prosperity. It is the glory of Abraham Lincoln that he never abused power only on the side of mercy”
― Robert Ingersoll

“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
― Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince

“Being responsible sometimes means pissing people off.”
― Colin Powell, On Leadership

“The difference between a politician and a statesman is that a politician thinks about the next election while the statesman think about the next generation.”
― James Freeman Clarke

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”
― Dr. Seuss, I Can Read with My Eyes Shut!

“Even the strongest and bravest must sometimes weep. It shows they have a great heart, one that can feel compassion for others.”
― Brian Jacques, Redwall