Paul Harvey Quotes

Government has to be cut back like asparagus... every day... or it gets away and goes to seed. Ours did. When there's too much of it, the flower becomes a weed.

- Paul Harvey

The policeman must be a minister, a social worker, a diplomat, a tough guy, and a gentleman. And, of course, he'd have to be a genius... For he will have to feed a family on a policeman's salary.

- 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

A policeman must know everything - and not tell. He must know where all the sin is and not partake.

- 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

I've never seen a monument erected to a pessimist.

- Paul Harvey

Cut 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

Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people.

- Paul Harvey

If there is a 50-50 chance that something can go wrong, then 9 times out of ten it will.

- 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

We were poor, but we didn't know it. There were no government bureaus in those days presuming to determine where poorness begins and ends, but I don't remember ever being hungry.

- Paul Harvey

Self-government won't work without self-discipline.

- 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 your outgo exceeds your income, the upshot may be your downfall.

- 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

In times like these, it helps to recall that there have always been times like these.

- 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

I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is.

- 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

Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice.

- Paul Harvey

Ever since I made tomorrow my favorite day, I've been uncomfortable looking back.

- Paul Harvey

Now you know the rest of the story.

- Paul Harvey

If 'pro' is the opposite of 'con' what is the opposite of 'progress'?

- Paul Harvey

Like what you do. If you don't like it, do something else.

- Paul Harvey