“Aim above morality. Be not simply good; be good for something.” — Henry David Thoreau
“Don’t take the fence down, until you know why it was put up.” — Robert Frost
“Indifference . . . is not only a sin, it is a punishment.” — Elie Wiesel
“A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.” — John Barrymore
“One should never trust a woman who tells her real age. A woman who would tell one that, would tell one anything.” — Oscar Wilde
“All of us, from the wealthiest and most powerful of men, to the weakest and hungriest of children, share one precious possession: the name American.” — Robert F. Kennedy
“But where, say some, is the King of America? I’ll tell you, Friend, He reigns above.” — Thomas Paine
“A book should serve as an axe to the ice inside us.” — Franz Kafka”
“In art, as in love, instinct is enough.” — Anatole France
Cowards die many times before their deaths; the valiant never taste of death but once. — William Shakespeare
“The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who in time of moral crisis preserve their neutrality.” — Dante Alighieri
“It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.” — Marcus Aurelius
“Against the assault of laughter, nothing can stand.” — Mark Twain
“Is not the mountain we conquer but ourselves.” — Edmund Hillary
“Love your enemies; for they shall tell you all your faults.” — Benjamin Franklin
“The contest, for ages, has been to rescue Liberty from the grasp of executive power.” — Daniel Webster
“Democracy is never a final achievement. It is a call to untiring effort, to continual sacrifice.” — John F. Kennedy
“A child miseducated is a child lost.” — John F. Kennedy
“Education is that which remains when one has forgotten everything he learned in school.” — Albert Einstein
“The American farmer is the only man in our economy who buys everything he buys at retail, sells everything he sells at wholesale, and pays the freight both ways.” — John F. Kennedy
“Everything is perfect coming from the hands of the Creator; everything degenerates n the hands of men.” — Jean Jacques Rousseau
“Every man is a king.” — Huey P. Long
“It is never too late to give up your prejudices.” — Henry David Thoreau
“You can’t hold a man down without staying down with him.” — Booker T. Washington
“I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act.” — G.K. Chesterton
“We are not permitted to choose the frame of our destiny. But what we put into it is ours.” — Dag Hammarskjold
“The best minds are not in government. If any were, business would hire them right away.” – Ronald Reagan
“Those who are too smart to engage in politics are punished by being governed by those who are dumber.” — Plato
“Honesty is the first chapter of the book of wisdom.” — Thomas Jefferson
“If you tell the truth you don’t have to remember anything.” — Mark Twain
“Behind the cloud, the sun is still shining.” — Abraham Lincoln
“If a man hasn’t discovered something that he will die for, he isn’t fit to live.” — Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Do a common thing in an uncommon way.” — Booker T. Washington
“A fanatic is one who can’t change his mind and won’t change the subject.” — Winston Churchill
“Don’t marry for money; you can borrow it cheaper.” — Scottish proverb
“Immature love says: ‘I love you because I need you.’ Mature love says: ‘I need you because I love you.'” — Erich Fromm
“Marriage is a lot like the army: everyone complains, but you’d be surprised at the large number that re-enlist.” — James Garner
“If peace cannot be maintained with honor, it is no longer peace.” — Lord John Russell
“To be prepared for war is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.” — George Washington
“You cannot shake hands with a clenched fist.” — Golda Meir
“The honest poor can sometimes forget poverty. The honest rich can never forget it.” — G.K. Chesterton
“The poor are our brothers and sisters — people in the world who need love, who need care, who have to be wanted.” — Mother Teresa
“Conscience is God’s presence in man.” — Emanuel Swedenborg
“Have we not all one Father? Did not one God create us all? Why then do we deal unkindly with one another?” — Malachi 2:10
“If we will not be governed by God, we must be governed by tyrants.” — William Penn
“The best years of your life are the ones in which you decide your problems are your own. You do not blame them on your mother, the ecology, or on the President. You realize that you control your own destiny.” — Albert Ellis
“Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“American began by loving youth, and now, out of adult self-pity, they worship it.” — Jacques Barzun
“No wise man ever wished to be younger.” — Jonathan Swift
Bliss in possession will not last;
Remember’d joys are never past;
At once the fountain, stream, and sea,
They were, — they are, — they yet shall be.
— James Montgomery
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