Keep It Pithy Quotes

“In short, this country has developed a ridiculous blind spot: the power and glorification of money. This is truly an affliction. It is holding us back as a nation, as a community. The true heroes of America are not the new Internet billionaires or the overpaid sports stars and movie actors or the wise guys who jack up their companies’ stocks. The true heroes of America are the men, women, and teenagers who go to work for a modest wage, fulfill their responsibilities to their families and friends, and are kind and generous to others—because that’s the right way to live.… The working people of the United States are the most important ingredient in the enduring American story. But”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

“Here’s something that really surprises me: The more stuff I have, the more stuff I want. And so I looked around and saw that everyone else was the same way. It was not until I had a few things that I noticed how this works. The material stuff is addicting! Remembering my parents, I try to fight against the “stuff addiction.” I refuse to buy jewelry or trinkets. I don’t need expensive toys like Jet Skis or snowblowers. I keep the material things under control, and I banish thoughts of them from my brain. Besides, I am very busy. My life doesn’t include window-shopping or paging through mail-order catalogs by the pool or jaunts to compact disc stores or Home Depot. These are all invitations to spend money unnecessarily.… Greed is the destroyer of success. You cannot be creatively successful and greedy at the same time. I’m talking about both material and emotional greed here. Sorry,”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

“If you live your life subject to the rules of Judeo-Christian tradition (or Buddhist, Islamic, or another religious tradition), then you will do more good than harm on this earth. You will love your neighbor and help other people out. You will not do things that hurt others or yourself. So, if everyone was religious wouldn’t the world be a much better place in which to live? Of course it would. And if there is no God at the end of it all, what does it matter? You’re in the ground or scattered to the winds. If the deity is a fraud, you won’t possibly care. You’re gone. But”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

“All great philosophers, even the atheists, realized that one of the essential attributes of a civilized people is a belief that good will be rewarded and evil will be punished. In”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

“KRAUTHAMMER: Well, remember they’re not the same as us because it was the more independent ones, the ones who didn’t like the strictures of government, the regulations, the religious oppression, who came here. This spirit of being independent and not wanting to be controlled by the government is something that is intrinsic in America, it’s the essence of America, it’s what distinguishes Americans who are essentially refugees of the old society in Europe. That’s why it’s always been harder to make Americans break to the yoke of government as happened in Europe. Once you get accustomed to the kinds of entitlements that you have in Sweden, England, France, elsewhere, it doesn’t get undone. And America is different—it’s resisting the imposition of new yokes. And that’s what’s happening today. That”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

“You only have to travel to Europe to see the difference that an entitlement culture makes. While the United States is a vibrant, creative, and exciting place, Europe today is largely stagnant. Workers there have little incentive to move ahead, because the rate of taxation is punishing and the governments guarantee a certain standard of living.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

“Hard work and discipline lead to economic success. Government handouts and unsupervised policies of pity only rob people of incentive. If tax money continues to be wasted, it becomes morally wrong for our government to confiscate huge percentages of income and property from Americans, even if they are wealthy.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

“It is a powerful statement that a good man suffered for me, that a just God was looking out for me, and if I lived a good life, I would be rewarded after death. Those beliefs, sincerely held, can get a human being through many hard times.…”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

“On September 6, 1819, he wrote: “The Constitution … is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist and shape into any form they please.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

“engraved on the Jefferson Memorial in Washington: “God who gave us life gave us liberty. Can the liberties of a nation be secure when we have removed a conviction that these liberties are the gift of God?”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World

“a touchy-feely vision of our society that places individual self-expression and rights over self-sacrifice and adult responsibility.”
― Bill O'Reilly, Keep It Pithy: Useful Observations in a Tough World