Walter Heller quotes

Walter Heller quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Rise above principle and do what is right.”
-- Walter Heller

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“Waiting for supply-side economics to work is like leaving the landing lights on for Amelia Earhart.”
-- Walter Heller

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“Rather an end in horror, than horror without end. He could not condemn principles he might need to invoke and apply later. The wolf cannot help having been created by God as he is, but we shoot him all the same if we have to. The great player in diplomacy, as in chess, asks the question,Does this improve me?, not look at the possible fringe benefits If you can't have what you like, you must like what you have.”
“When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very same principles to which they owe their existence as human beings. Their actions against Nature must lead to their own downfall.”
“Our nation is built on the bedrock principle that governments derive their just powers from the consent of the governed.”
“No morality can be founded on authority, even if the authority were divine.”
“A historical property has morals and ethics of the society that created it and it can be revived. What I mean is that we can discover new possibilities from the process of dismantling, transforming, and recreating.”
“Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.”
“Liberty cannot be established without morality, nor morality without faith.”

Source : Alexis de Tocqueville (1847). “Democracy in America”, p.11
“A business is seldom if ever built up except on lines of strictest integrity.”
“Everybody seems to be imprisoned in their own sectarian or political affiliations. They don't seem to be able to rise above these things.”
“Don't let the negatives of life control you. Rise above them. Use them as your stepping stones to go higher than you ever dreamed possible”

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