John Quincy Adams

“Posterity: you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your freedom. I hope you will make good use of it”. –John Quincy Adams

Hugh Kingsmill

“Writers are idolized not because they love their fellow men, which is never a recommendation and in extreme instances leads to crucifixion, but because their self-love is in tune with current fears and desires, and in giving it expression they are speaking for an inarticulate multitude”. –Hugh Kingsmill

Karl Barth

“Man as man can never know God: His wishing, seeking, and striving are all in vain”. –Karl Barth

Henri Laborit

“Doubting, it’s believing that we never had understood the whole thing”. –Henri Laborit

Marvin Gaye

“If you cannot find peace within yourself, you will never find it anywhere else”. –Marvin Gaye

J.G. Ballard

“Human beings today… are surrounded by huge institutions we can never penetrate: the City, the banking system, political advertising conglomerates, vast entertainment enterprises. They’ve made themselves user friendly, but they define the tastes to which we conform. They’re rather subtle, subservient tyrants, but no less sinister for that”. –J.G. Ballard

Babe Ruth

“It’s hard to beat a person who never gives up”. –Babe Ruth

Robert G. Ingersoll

“The burning enthusiasm, the quenchless zeal of the early church have gone, never, never to return. The ceremonies remain, but the ancient faith is fading out of the human heart. The worn-out arguments fail to convince, and denunciations that once blanched the faces of a race, excite us only in derision and disgust. As time rolls on, the miracles grow mean and small, and the evidences our fathers thought conclusive utterly fail to satisfy us”. –Robert G. Ingersoll

Vyacheslav Molotov

“The trouble with free elections is that you never know how they are going to turn out”. –Vyacheslav Molotov

Walter Chrysler

“I feel sorry for the person who can’t get genuinely excited about his work. Not only will he never be satisfied, but he will never achieve anything worthwhile”. –Walter Chrysler

Syd Barrett

“I think young people should have a lot of fun, but I never seem to have any”. –Syd Barrett

Lyle Alzado

“I never met a man I didn’t want to fight”. –Lyle Alzado

Jim Morrison

“It hurts to set you free, but you’ll never follow me”. –Jim Morrison

Fiorello La Guardia

“It makes no difference if I burn my bridges behind me — I never retreat”. –Fiorello LaGuardia

Charles de Gaulle

“Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word”. –Charles de Gaulle

Hans Christian Andersen

“Death walks faster than the wind and never returns what he has taken”. –Hans Christian Andersen

Jack Paar

“I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off”. –Jack Paar

Hank Williams

“No matter how I struggle and strive, I’ll never get out of this world alive”. –Hank Williams

Luc de Clapiers

“To execute great things, one should live as though one would never die”. –Luc de Clapiers

Hoyt Axton

“You know I smoked a lot of grass, And I popped a couple pills, But I never touched nothing that could break my will”. –Hoyt Axton

William Cowper

“Regions Cæsar never knew Thy posterity shall sway; Where his eagles never flew, None invincible as they”. –William Cowper

Oliver Goldsmith

“For he who fights and runs away, May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain, Can never rise and fight again”. –Oliver Goldsmith

David Brinkley

“Numerous politicians have seized absolute power and muzzled the press. Never in history has the press seized absolute power and muzzled the politicians”. –David Brinkley

Paul Tillich

“He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a failure in his whole being”. –Paul Tillich

Buddy Hackett

“I’ve had a few arguments with people, but I never carry a grudge. You know why? While you’re carrying a grudge, they’re out dancing”. –Buddy Hackett

Humphrey Bogart

“Things are never so bad they can’t be made worse”. –Humphrey Bogart

John F. Kennedy

“Communism has never come to power in a country that was not disrupted by war, or corruption, or both”. –John F. Kennedy

Richard Burton

“The more I study religions, the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself”. –Richard Burton

W.C. Fields

“I never vote for anybody; I always vote against”. –W.C. Fields