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"The Price Of Freedom Is Eternal vigilance." »Thomas Jefferson
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"The condition upon which God has given liberty to man is eternal vigilance." »John Philpot Curran
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"Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty--power is ever stealing from the many to the few." »Wendell Phillips
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"To get something done, a committee should consist of no more than three men, two of whom are absent." »Robert Copeland
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"The world is proof that God is a committee." »Bob Stokes
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"A camel is a horse designed by committee." »Sir Alec Issigonis
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"There is no monument dedicated to the memory of a committee." »Lester J. Pourciau
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"If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock." »Arthur Goldberg
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"If you see a snake, just kill it. Don't appoint a committee on snakes." »H. Ross Perot
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"A committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled." »Sir Barnett Cocks
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"A committee can make a decision that is dumber than any of its members." »David Coblitz
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"What is a committee A group of the unwilling, picked from the unfit, to do the unnecessary." »Richard Harkness
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"A committee is a thing which takes a week to do what one good man can do in an hour." »Elbert Hubbard
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"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter; we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job." »Sir Winston Churchill, Radio speech, 1941
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"Here is the answer which I will give to President Roosevelt... We shall not fail or falter we shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job." »Winston Churchill
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"Football is a mistake. It combines the two worst elements of American life. Violence and committee meetings." »George Will
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"Football incorporates the two worst elements of American society violence punctuated by committee meetings." »George Will
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"If the many allegations made to this date are true, then the burglars who broke into the headquarters of the Democratic National committee at the Watergate were, in effect, breaking into the home of every citizen." »Sam James Ervin, Jr.
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"committee--a group of men who individually can do nothing but as a group decide that nothing can be done." »Fred Allen
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"In America every woman has her set of girl-friends some are cousins, the rest are gained at school. These form a permanent committee who sit on each other's affairs, who 'come out' together, marry and divorce together, and who end as those groups of bustling, heartless well-informed club-women who govern society. Against them the Couple of Ehepaar is helpless and Man in their eyes but a biological interlude." »Charles Caleb Colton
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"Could Hamlet have been written by a committee, or the Mona Lisa painted by a club Could the New Testament have been composed as a conference report Creative ideas do not spring from groups. They spring from individuals. The divine spark leaps from the finger of God to the finger of Adam." »A. Whitney Griswold
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| BTW, Why won't you become an editor? |