Under Quotes

"If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost; that is where they should be. Now put the foundations under them."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Under a government which imprisons any unjustly, the true place for a just man is in prison."
-Henry David Thoreau

"Those who would deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves; and, under a just God, cannot long retain it."
-Abraham Lincoln

"The miracle, or the power, that elevates the few is to be found in their industry, application, and perseverance under the prompting of a brave, determined spirit."
-Mark Twain

"Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer."
-Mark Twain

"When a disciple from the wildcat religious asylum comes marching forth, get under the bed. It doesn't matter whether he's a Christian, Hindu, Jew or Muslim."
-Mark Twain

"Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind."
-Plato

"The punishment which the wise suffer who refuse to take part in the government is to live under the government of worse men."
-Plato

"Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten through the lapse of Time."
-Aristotle

"Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms (of government) those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear."
-Thomas Jefferson

"I predict future happiness for Americans if they can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of taking care of them."
-Thomas Jefferson

"If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny."
-Thomas Jefferson

"Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool and unruffled under all circumstances."
-Thomas Jefferson

"If you can't go over, you must go under. "
-Yiddish proverb

"It's not living alone if you keep a rifle under the bed."
-Chuck Palahniuk

"My father always told me that all businessmen were sons of bitches, but I never believed it till now. -- (Comment made 10 April 1962 in reaction to news that U.S. Steel was raising prices by $6 per ton, right after the unions negotiated a modest new contract under pressure from JFK to keep inflation down.)"
-John F. Kennedy

"Getting my lifelong weight struggle under control has come from a process of treating myself as well as I treat others in every way."
-Oprah Winfrey

"There was a star danced, and under that was I born."
-William Shakespeare

"What difference does it make to the dead, the orphans and the homeless, whether the mad destruction is wrought under the name of totalitarianism or the holy name of liberty or democracy?"
-Mahatma Gandhi

"If you look up 'Intelligence' in the new volumes of the Encyclopeadia Britannica, you'll find it classified under the following three heads: Intelligence, Human; Intelligence, Animal; Intelligence, Military. My stepfather's a perfect specimen of Intelligence, Military."
-Aldous Huxley

"Grace under Pressure."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Courage is grace under pressure."
-Ernest Hemingway

"[What is the definition of guts?] Grace under pressure."
-Ernest Hemingway

"Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it."
-Charles Dickens

"One of the great mistakes that can be made by a man of my age is to get involved in athletic competition with children--unless, of course, they are under six. And even then, stay away from hide-and-seek."
-Bill Cosby

"A democracy is two wolves and a small lamb voting on what to have for dinner. Freedom under a constitutional republic is a well armed lamb contesting the vote."
-Benjamin Franklin

"There is a boundary to men's passions when they act from feelings; but none when they are under the influence of imagination."
-Edmund Burke