Best Quotes

“Patriotism is best exemplified through auto-critique. When you're willing to stand up within the group and say, 'It is wrong for Black people to be anti-Semitic,' or 'It is wrong for America to discriminate against persons of African descent and made them slaves and based its wealth upon free labor,' it's crucial to say that.”

-- Henry Louis Gates

“The game of history is usually played by the best and the worst over the heads of the majority in the middle.”

-- Eric Hoffer

“The best protection any woman can have... is courage.”

-- Elizabeth Cady Stanton

“At his best, man is the noblest of all animals separated from law and justice he is the worst.”

-- Aristotle

“I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.”

-- Albert Einstein

“Democracy functions best when we have an active citizenry.”

-- Rick Perry

“There are some things you learn best in calm, and some in storm.”

-- Willa Cather

“It is best for the wise man not to seem wise.”

-- Aeschylus

“Sometimes the best lighting of all is a power failure.”

-- Doug Coupland

“The man who makes everything that leads to happiness depends upon himself, and not upon other men, has adopted the very best plan for living happily. This is the man of moderation, the man of manly character and of wisdom.”

-- Plato