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Paul Harvey
1918 – 2009 • American • Journalist
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Showing 25 quotesCut out the free feed for the boss hogs at the public trough and the spill-over they've been leaving us. We'll manage.— Paul Harvey
As industry's tycoons of the Thirties got their wings clipped, labor's leaders in the Eighties are getting their wings clipped. Not because of any class-related antagonism, but because any excess, ultimately, is its own undoing.— Paul Harvey
A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.— Paul Harvey
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.— Paul Harvey
Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be.— Paul Harvey
I was never one who sought to make the small man tall by cutting off the legs of a giant. I wanted to drag no man down to my size. Only to preserve a way of life which might make it possible for me, one day, to elevate myself until I at least partly matched his size.— Paul Harvey
Ever occur to you why some of us can be this much concerned with animals suffering? Because government is not. Why not? Animals don't vote.— Paul Harvey
What is a policeman made of? He, of all men, is once the most needed and the most unwanted. He's a strangely nameless creature who is 'Sir' to his face and 'Fuzz' to his back.— Paul Harvey
One vote. That's a big weapon you have there, Mister. In 1948, just one additional vote in each precinct would have elected Dewey. In 1960, one vote in each precinct in Illinois would have elected Nixon. One vote.— Paul Harvey
When America's early pioneers first turned their eyes toward the West, they did not demand that somebody take care of them if they got ill or got old. They did not demand maximum pay for minimum work, and even pay for no work at all.— Paul Harvey
Golf is a game in which you yell 'fore,' shoot six, and write down five.— Paul Harvey
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