Communism and socialism is [sic] seductive. It promises us that people will contribute according to ability and receive according to needs. Everybody is equal. Everybody has a right to decent housing, decent food and affordable medical care. History should have taught us that when we hear people talk this stuff--Watchout!
Walter E. Williams
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.
Red Cloud
The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, and miles to go before I sleep.
Robert Frost
The organization controlling the material equipment of our everyday life is such that what in itself would enable us to construct it richly plunges us instead into a poverty of abundance, making alienation all the more intolerable as each convenience promises liberation and turns out to be only one more burden. We are condemned to slavery to the means of liberation.
Raoul Vaneigem
Promises are like babies: easy to make, hard to deliver.
Unknown
I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.
Unknown
Everyone's a millionaire where promises are concerned.
Unknown
Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes.
Benjamin Franklin
A politician is known by the promises he keeps.
Unknown
Beauty always promises, but never gives anything.
Simone Weil
The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them
John F. Kennedy
The New Frontier I speak of is not a set of promises -- it is a set of challenges. It sums up not what I intend to offer the American people, but what I intent to ask of them.
John F. Kennedy
Unfortunately, in today's world we have to be reminded that the power of an oath derives from the fact that in it we ask God to bear witness to the promises we make with the implicit expectation that He will hold us accountable for the manner in which we honor them.
James L. Buckley