Nelson Mandela
There are none so blind as those who will not see.
Jeremiah
If a strong man shall keep his court well-guarded, he shall live in peace.
St. Luke
Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.
George Santayana
Unless we remember we cannot understand.
Edward M. Forster
Study the past if you would divine the future.
Confucius
The present contains nothing more than the past, and what is found in the effect was already in the cause.
Henri Bergson
Complete adaptation to environment means death. The essential point in all response is the desire to control environment.
John Dewey
I only regret that I have but one life to give for my country.
Nathan Hale
All for one; one for all.
Alexander Dumas
Ask not what your country can do for you: Ask what you can do for your country.
John F. Kennedy
A house divided against itself cannot stand.
Abraham Lincoln
United we stand, divided we fall.
G.P. Morris
These are the times that try men’s souls. The summer soldier and the sunshine patriot will shrink from the service of his country. . . Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered.
Thomas Paine
Listen my children and you shall hear. . .
Paul Revere
I have not yet begun to fight.
John Paul Jones
Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and slavery? . . . I know not what others may take, but as for me, give me liberty or give me death!
Patrick Henry
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Taxes are the sinews of the state.
Cicero
All authority belongs to the people.
Thomas Jefferson
The best of all governments is that which teaches us to govern ourselves.
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
Good government is no substitute for self-government.
Mahatma Ghandi
Our liberty depends on the freedom of press, and that cannot be limited without being lost.
Thomas Jefferson
I disapprove of what you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it.
Voltaire
I must respect the opinions of others even if I disagree with them.
Herbert Henry Lehman
A journalist is a grumbler, a censurer, a giver of advice, a regent of sovereigns, a tutor of nations. Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
Napoleon Bonaparte
A newspaper should be the maximum of information, and the minimum of comment.
Richard Cobden
Were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers or newspapers without government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter.
Thomas Jefferson
Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
William Butler Yeats
When wealth is lost, nothing is lost; when health is lost, something is lost; when character is lost, all is lost.
German motto
Good will, like a good name, is got by many actions, and lost by one.
Lord Jeffery
I place economy among the first and most important virtues, and the public debt as the greatest of dangers. . . We must make our choice between economy and liberty, or profusion and servitude. If we can prevent the government from wasting the labors of the people under the pretense of caring for them, they will be happy.
Thomas Jefferson
Loyalty. . . is a realization that America was born of revolt, flourished in dissent, became great through experimentation.
Henry S. Commanger
The cost of freedom is always high, but Americans have always paid it. And one path we shall never choose, and that is the path of surrender, or submission.
John F. Kennedy
It is the cause and not merely the death that makes a martyr.
Napoleon Bonaparte
Peace, above all things, is to be desired, but blood must sometimes be spilled to obtain it on equable and lasting terms.
Andrew Jackson
I seek the Presidency not because it offers me a chance to be somebody but because it offers me a chance to do something.
Richard M. Nixon
No person was ever honored for what he received. Honor has been the reward for what he gave.
Calvin Coolidge
Every good citizen makes his country’s honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred, He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.
Andrew Jackson
The humblest citizen of all the land, when clad in the armor of a righteous cause, is stronger than all the hosts of errors.
William Jennings Bryan
So long as you are ready to die for humanity, the life of your country is immortal.
Guiseppe Mazzini
The greatest test of courage on earth is to bear defeat without losing heart.
Robert Green Ingersoil
People do not lack the strength; they lack the will.
Victor Hugo
It is fatal to enter any war without the will to win it.
Douglas MacArthur
Soldiers usually win the battle and generals get the credit for them.
Napoleon Bonaparte
I don’t know whether war is an interlude during peace, or peace is an interlude during war.
Georges Clemenceau
War is hell.
William Tecumseh Sherman
A young man who does not have what it takes to perform military service is not likely to have what it takes to make a living.
John F. Kennedy
Every citizen should be a soldier. This was the case with the Greeks and Romans, and must be that of every free state.
Thomas Jefferson
Theirs is not to make reply, Theirs is not to reason why, Theirs is but to do and die.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The main thing is to make history, not to write it.
Otto von Bismark
Civilization ceases when we no longer respect and no longer put into their correct places the fundamental values, such as work, family and country; such as individual, honor, and religion.
R.P. Lebret
All religions must be tolerated, for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
Frederick the Great
The test of a preacher is that his congregation goes away saying, not “What a lovely sermon” but, “I will do something!”
St. Francis de Sales
Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.
Edmund Burke
There is no knowledge that is not power.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
We should be careful as careful of the books we read, as of the company we keep. The dead very often have more power than the living.
Tyron Edwards
Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them all.
Henry David Thoreau
Science is nothing but perception.
Plato
Only the educated are free.
Epictetus
Education is a better safeguard of liberty than a standing army.
Edward Everett
Skepticism: the mark and even the prose of the educated mind.
John Dewey
He who opens a school door, closes a prison.
Victor Hugo
Our progress as a nation can be no swifter than our progress in education.
John F. Kennedy
Genius is the ability to act rightly without precedent- the power to do the right thing the first time.
Elebert Hubbard
You cannot teach a man anything; you can only help him find it within himself.
Galileo
However we may pity the mother whose health and even life are imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.
Pius XI
God never made His work for man to mend.
John Dryden
Capitalism and communism stand at opposite poles. Their essential difference is this: The communist, seeing the rich man and his fine home says: “No man should have so much.” The capitalist, seeing the same thing says: “All men should have as much.”
Phelps Adams
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill
Communism possess a language which every people can understand- its elements are hunger, envy, and death.
Heinrich Heine
Communism is the death of the soul. It is the organization of total conformity- in short, of tyranny- and it is committed to making tyranny universal.
Adlai E. Stevenson
A communist is like a crocodile: when it opens its mouth you cannot tell whether it is trying to smile or preparing to eat you up.
Winston Churchill
Democracy is good. I say this because other systems are worse.
Jawarhal Nehru
In free countries, every man is entitled to express his opinions- and every other man is entitled not to listen.
G. Norman Collie
Thought that is silenced is always rebellious. . . Majorities, of course, are often mistaken. This is why the silencing of minorities is always dangerous. Criticism and dissent are the indispensable antidote to major delusions.
Alan Barth
It doesn’t take a majority to make a rebellion; it takes only a few determined leaders and a sound cause.
H.L. Mencken
It is impossible to predict the time and progress of revolution. It is governed by its own more or less mysterious laws.
V.I. Lenin
Any man more right than his neighbors, constitutes a majority of one.
Henry David Thoreau
One man with courage makes a majority.
Andrew Jackson
He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty, he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself.
Thomas Paine
Men become civilized, not in proportion to their willingness to believe, but in proportion to their readiness to doubt.
H.L. Mencken
It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.
André Gide
Hypocrite: the man who murdered both his parents. . . pleaded for mercy on the grounds that he was an orphan.
Abraham Lincoln
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
If the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.
Matthew 15:14
The final test of a leader is that he leaves behind him in other men the conviction and the will to carry on.
Walter Lippmann
A diplomat is a person who can tell you to go to Hell in such a way that you actually look forward to the trip.
Anonymous
Speech is power: speech is to persuade, to convert, to compel.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
A politician thinks of the next election; a statesman, of the next generation.
J.F. Clarke
Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge even where there is no river.
Nikita Khrushchev
Let us never negotiate out of fear. But let us never fear to negotiate.
John F. Kennedy
He that has learned to obey will know how to command.
Solon
If once you forfeit the confidence of your fellow-citizens, you can never regain their respect and esteem.
Abraham Lincoln
Nothing so cements and holds together all the parts of a society as faith or credit, which can never be kept up unless men are under some force or necessity of honestly paying what they owe to one another.
Cicero
A man’s greatness can be measured by his enemies.
Don Platt
Observe your enemies, for they first find out your faults.
Antisthenes
What is defeat? Nothing but education, nothing but the first step to something better.
Wendell Phillips
Defeat is not the worst of failures. Not to have tried is the true failure.
George Edward Woodberry
Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall.
Oliver Goldsmith
Those who are prepared to die for any cause are seldom defeated.
Jawarhal Nehru
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
A man can fail many times, but he isn’t a failure until he begins to blame somebody else.
John Burroughs
The man who makes no mistakes does not usually make anything.
Edward Phelps
The way to be nothing is to do nothing.
Nathaniel Howe
Error is discipline in which we advance.
William Ellery Channing
He that never changes his opinion and never corrects his mistakes, and will never be wiser on the morrow than he is today.
Tyron Edwards
Sometimes we may learn from a man’s errors, than from his virtues.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Experience is a school where a man learns what a big fool he has been.
Josh Billings
Experience is a hard teacher because she gives the test first, the lesson afterwards.
Vernon Sanders Law
Great thoughts reduced to practice become great acts.
William Huxley
Men are born with two eyes, but only one tongue, in order that they should see twice as much as they say.
Charles Caleb Colton
Where we cannot invent, we may at least improve.
Charles Caleb Colton
In everything we ought to look to the end.
Jean De La Fontaine
My interest is in the future because I am going to spend the rest of my life there.
Charles F. Kettering
People talk about the middle of the road as though it were unacceptable. Actually, all human problems, excepting morals, come into the gray areas. Things are not all black and white. They have to be compromises. The middle of the road is all of the usable surface, The extremes, right and left, are in the gutters.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue, and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.
Edmund Burke
The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinion.
James Russell Lowell
The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one merely tries to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity.
Albert Einstein
No man really becomes a fool until he stops asking questions.
Charles Steinmetz
Judge a man by his questions rather than his answers.
Voltaire
There is no use whatever trying to help people who do not help themselves. You cannot push anyone up a ladder unless he be willing to climb himself.
Andrew Carnegie
Don’t expect to build up the weak by pulling down the strong.
Calvin Coolidge
Never spend your money before you earn it.
Thomas Jefferson
Debt is the slavery of the free.
Publius Syrus
You can fool some of the people all of the time, and all of the people some of the them, but you cannot fool all of the people all of the time.
Abraham Lincoln
An angry man opens his mouth and shuts up his eyes.
Cato
If a man be gracious and courteous to strangers, it shows he is a citizen of the world.
Francis Bacon
It is more blessed to give than to receive.
Acts.20:35
The first great gift we can bestow on others is a good example.
Morell
God helps them who helps themselves.
Proveb
The road to Hell is paved with good intentions.
Karl Marx
To get something done a committee should consist of three men, two of whom are absent.
Anonymous
Some call it evolution and others call it God.
W.H. Carruth
I am proud of the fact that I never invented weapons that kill.
Thomas A. Edison
We develop weapons, not to wage war, but to prevent war. Only in the clear light of this greater truth can we properly examine the lesser matter of the testing of our nuclear weapons.
Dwight D. Eisenhower
The sky is no longer the limit.
Richard M. Nixon
He who flees from trial confesses his guilt.
Publius Syrus
Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind.
William Shakespeare
Take time for all things: great haste makes great waste.
Benjamin Franklin
The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
Josh Billings
Every generation laughs at the old fashions, but follows religiously the new.
Henry David Thoreau
Common sense is very uncommon.
Horace Greely
Common sense is in spite of, not as a result of education.
Victor Hugo
When you take stuff from one writer, it’s plagiarism; but when you take it from many writers, it’s research.
Wilson Mizner
If a child annoys you, quiet him by brushing his hair. If this doesn’t work, use the other side of the brush on the other end of the child.
Anonymous
You can’t say civilization isn’t advancing: in every war, they kill you in a new way.
Will Rogers
Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
Ed Howe
Alexander Hamilton warned us that a nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master and deserves one. Admittedly there is a risk in any course we follow. Choosing the high road cannot eliminate that risk. Already some of the architects of accommodation have hinted what their decision will be if their plan fails and we are faced with the final ultimatum. The English commentator Tynan has put it, “He would rather live on his knees than die on his feet.” Some of our own have said, “Better Red than dead.” If we are to believe that nothing is worth the dying, when did this begin? Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in slavery rather than dare the wilderness? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the patriots have refused to fire the shot heard round the world? Are we to believe that all the martyrs of history died in vain? [October 1964]
Ronald Wilson Reagan
To secure wealth is an honorable ambition, and is one great test of a person’s usefulness to others. Money is power. Every good man and woman ought to strive for power, to do good with it when obtained. Tens of thousands of men and women get rich honestly. But they are often accused by an envious, lazy crowd of unsuccessful persons of being dishonest and oppressive. I say, Get rich, get rich! But get money honestly, or it will be a withering curse.
Russell H. Conwell
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