Home / Quotes / Quote by Lindsey Graham

Quote by Lindsey Graham

“It's really American to avoid paying taxes, legally.”

Quote by Lindsey Graham

Author

Lindsey Graham is an American politician, born on July 9, 1955. He is a U.S. Senator from South Carolina, having served in that position since 2003. Graham is known for his conservative political stance and his focus on national security and defense issues. more

You May Also Like

“The thing is not only to avoid error, but to attain immense masses of truth.”

Truth Mass Errors Immense

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“A man protesting against error is on the way towards uniting himself with all men that believe in truth.”

Men Way Believe Truth Errors Uniting

Book:Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian

Source: Heroes and Hero Worship: The Historian

“The scandalous bronze-lacquer age of hungry animalisms, spiritual impotences, and mendacities, will have to run its course, till the pit follow it.”

Running Age Spiritual Courses Hungry Pits Impotence Bronze Scandalous Mendacity Animalism

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“He who talks much about virtue in the abstract, begins to be suspected; it is shrewdly guessed that where there is great preaching there will be little almsgiving.”

Littles Virtue Abstract Preaching Almsgiving

Book:Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

Source: Critical and Miscellaneous Essays: Collected and Republished

“No country can find eternal peace and comfort where the vote of Judas Iscariot is as good as the vote of the Saviour of mankind.”

Country Mankind Comfort Eternal Vote Saviour Judas Eternal Peace Judas Iscariot

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The deepest depth of vulgarism is that of setting up money as the ark of the covenant.”

Depth Setting Settings Covenant Vulgarity Ark

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The vulgarity of inanimate things requires time to get accustomed to; but living, breathing, bustling, plotting, planning, human vulgarity is a species of moral ipecacuanha, enough to destroy any comfort.”

Humans Enough Moral Comfort Species Planning Breathing Accustomed Vulgarity Vulgarity Is

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“Great is wisdom; infinite is the value of wisdom. It cannot be exaggerated; it is the highest achievement of man.”

Men Wisdom Values Achievement Highest Infinite Exaggerated

Book:Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott

Source: Autobiography of J.S. Mill & on Liberty; Characteristics, Inaugural Address at Edinburgh & Sir Walter Scott

“The modern majesty consists in work. What a man can do is his greatest ornament, and he always consults his dignity by doing it.”

Men Can Do Work Modern Dignity Majesty Ornaments

Author:Thomas Carlyle

“The world is a thing that a man must learn to despise, and even to neglect, before he can learn to reverence it, and work in it and for it.”

Men World Neglect Despise Reverence

Author:Thomas Carlyle