Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide.
John Adams

As soon as the fear approaches near, attack and destroy it.
Chanakya

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.
Robert Frost

I wanted to be an editor or a journalist, I wasn't really interested in being an entrepreneur, but I soon found I had to become an entrepreneur in order to keep my magazine going.
Richard Branson

I've decided something: Commercial things really do stink. As soon as it becomes commercial for a mass market it really stinks.
Andy Warhol

He who is firmly seated in authority soon learns to think security, and not progress, the highest lesson in statecraft.
James Russell Lowell

If youth be a defect, it is one that we outgrow only too soon.
James Russell Lowell

What is right to be done cannot be done too soon.
Jane Austen

When we get to wishing a great deal for ourselves, whatever we get soon turns into mere limitation and exclusion.
George Eliot

Man weeps to think that he will die so soon; woman, that she was born so long ago.
H. L. Mencken

The theory seems to be that as long as a man is a failure he is one of God's children, but that as soon as he succeeds he is taken over by the Devil.
H. L. Mencken

When people get married because they think it's a long-time love affair, they'll be divorced very soon, because all love affairs end in disappointment. But marriage is a recognition of a spiritual identity.
Joseph Campbell

As soon as you concern yourself with the 'good' and 'bad' of your fellows, you create an opening in your heart for maliciousness to enter. Testing, competing with, and criticizing others weaken and defeat you.
Morihei Ueshiba

President Obama, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, and their team have failed the American people, and that is why their majority will soon be out the door.
Mitt Romney

Isn't it fitting that so many of those who have contempt for the private sector will soon find themselves back in it?
Mitt Romney

The most successful businessman is the man who holds onto the old just as long as it is good, and grabs the new just as soon as it is better.
Lee Iacocca

Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may soon lead to full establishment of the truth.
Ambrose Bierce

Heaven lies about us in our infancy and the world begins lying about us pretty soon afterward.
Ambrose Bierce

Under socialism all will govern in turn and will soon become accustomed to no one governing.
Vladimir Lenin

A president either is constantly on top of events or, if he hesitates, events will soon be on top of him. I never felt that I could let up for a moment.
Harry S. Truman