If we are understood, more words are unnecessary; if we are not likely to be understood, they are useless. Charles II of England
There is nothing more I should do to it now, and therefore I am not likely to be more ready to go than at this moment. Ulysses S. Grant
The civilized are those who get more out of life than the uncivilized, and for this we are not likely to be forgiven. Cyril Connolly
One who belongs to the most vilified and persecuted minority in history is not likely to be insensible to the freedoms guaranteed by our Constitution... But as judges we are neither Jew nor Gentile, neither Catholic nor agnostic. Felix Frankfurter
The tool that is so dull that you cannot cut yourself on it is not likely to be sharp enough to be either useful or helpful. John Tukey
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. Robert M. Hutchins