Quote

When threatened, the first thing a democracy gives up is democracy.

Mignon McLaughlin

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Mignon McLaughlin
Age: 70 †
Born: 1913
Born: June 6
Died: 1983
Died: December 20
Journalist
Writer
the United States of America
First
Giving
Thing
Threatened
Gives
Democracy
Firsts

More quotes by Mignon McLaughlin

Image
There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Many are saved from sin by being so inept at it.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Many beautiful women have been made happy by their own beauty, but no intelligent woman has ever been made happy by her own intelligence.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Others settle for small rewards the neurotic must always go for broke.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The death of someone we know always reminds us that we are still alive - perhaps for some purpose which we ought to re-examine.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
When hope is hungry, everything feeds it
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Hot dogs always seem better out than at home so do French-fried potatoes so do your children.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
My thoughts, I guess, are bitter who but the bitter have thoughts?
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Your money, or your life. We know what to do when a burglar makes this demand of us, but not when God does.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
When the pain is great enough, we will let anyone be doctor.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
I tell you this, and I tell you plain: What you have done, you will do again You will bite your tongue, careful or not, Upon the already-bitten spot.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Many who would not take the last cookie would take the last lifeboat.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
What we love about love is the fever, which marriage puts to bed and cures.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
How can a man marry wisely in his twenties? The girl he's going to wind up wanting hasn't even been born.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Don't fool yourself that important things can be put off till tomorrow they can be put off forever, or not at all
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
There's nothing wrong with most men's egos that the kowtowing of a headwaiter can't cure.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
We can never understand other people's motives, nor their furniture.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
The best work is done with the heart breaking, or overflowing.
Mignon McLaughlin
Image
Neurotics expect you to remember all the things that they tell you, and many that they don't.
Mignon McLaughlin