Quotes from Walter Annenberg


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I didn't feel the Depression at all. I always had a pocketful of money.


Accomplish something every day of your life.


Adversity tests us from time to time and it is inevitable that this testing continues during life.


The test of character is having the ability to meet challenges.


God grant you the strength to fight off the temptations of surrender.


Carter's done a lot more good since he's been out of the White House than when he was in it.


Don't worry about it. Babe Ruth struck out on occasion, too.


Everybody around the world wants to send their kids to our universities. But nobody wants to send their kids here to public school.


Few things are as essential as education.


The greatest happiness comes from being vitally interested in something that excites all your energies.


I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.


It is unsound for an independent editor to be a financial contributor to any cause which would cause any type of special pleading.


Live rich, die poor; never make the mistake of doing it the other way round.


My success? Being born the son of Moses Annenberg.


Our blood will turn from red to blue, although our money is but new.


TV is like theater. You can't enjoy it without a program.


Unless young blacks are brought into the mainstream of economic life, they will continue to be on the curbstone.


I'd heard he was good, and what the hell sense does it make not to hire somebody because of their color?


My country has been very good to me; I must be good to my country.


All I ever seek from good deeds is a measure of respect.