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100 Attitude "Our life is what our thoughts make it." --Marcus Aurelius 7 200 Mi

100 Attitude "The world we have created is a product of our thinking. It cannot be changed without 7 1950 Au

changing our thinking." --Albert Einstein

100 Happiness When the sun rises, I go to work. When the sun goes down, I take my rest, I dig the 7 -2500 Sc

well from which I drink, I farm the soil which yields my food, I share creation. Kings

can do no more. - Anonymous from China, 2500 b.c.

100 Knowing We shall not cease from exploration | and the end of all our exploring | shall be to 7 1900 Ne

arrive where we started | and know the place for the first time. -- T.S. Eliot

100 Purpose If there is some end of the things we do...will not knowledge of it, have a great 7 -370 Mg

influence on life? Shall we not, like archers who have a mark to aim at, be more likely

to hit upon what we should? If so, we must try, in outline at least, to determine what it

is. —Aristotle

100 Truth "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -- 7 1790 Au

George Washington

160 Kindness "The best portion of a good man's life is the little, nameless, unremembered acts of 7 1850 Au

kindness and love." --William Wordsworth

160 Leadership You must be the change you wish to see in the world. - Mohandas Gandhi 7 1950 Si

170 Kindness "No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted." –Aesop 7 -800 Mg

170 Selfless A person starts to live when he can live outside of himself. - Albert Einstein 7 1950 Au

180 Doing "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." –Aristotle 7 -370 Mg



180 Freedom "Is life so dear or peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and 7 1775 Au

slavery? Forbid it, Almighty God, I know not what course others may take, but give me

liberty or give me death!" -- Patrick Henry"

180 Persist "The greatest glory is not in never falling but in rising up every time we fall." -- 7 200 Sc

Confucius

0 Becoming You are what you eat -- ? 6

0 Sowing ...for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap. -- Galatians 6:7 Bible 6 30

0 Vision A vision without a task is but a dream, a task without a vision is drudgery; a vision and 6 1500 Ne

a task is the hope of the world. - From an inscription on an old English Church



0 Vision If I were to wish for anything, I would not wish for wealth and power, but for the 6 1850 Ng

passionate sense of what might be, for the eye which, ever young and ardent, sees

the possible. Pleasure disappoints, possibility never. And what wine is so sparkling,

what so fraught, what so intoxicating as possbility! - Soren Kierkegaard



0 Vision If you don‘t know where you‘re going, you will wind up somewhere else. -- Yogi Berra Berra 6 Au



100 Attitude May you live all the days of your life. - Jonathan Swift 6 1750 Ne

100 Attitude "The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions, and not our 6 1800 Au

circumstances." -- Martha Washington

100 Attitude "Nurture your mind with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes." -- 6 1850 Ne

Benjamin Disraeli

100 Attitude "Weakness of attitude becomes weakness of character." --Albert Einstein 6 1950 Au

100 Begin Finis Origine Pendet , loosely translated means "The end depends upon the 6 200 Mi

beginning.". Manlius, an ancient poet, who in the crisis of his life and faith wrote this.

The Bible reveals much about this principle. It seems that God always refers back to

the beginning of a thing as a point of reference for His will down the road, be it the

events of men or nations.

100 Evil "A hurtful act is the transference to others of the degradation which we bear in 6 1935 Nf

ourselves." --Simone Weil

100 Knowing "To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do not know 6 -500 Sc

is disease." --Lao Tzu

100 Lies "There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics." --Mark Twain 6 1850 Au

100 Success The trouble with the rat race is that even if you win you‘re still a rat. - Lily Tomlin 6 1990 Au



100 Truth "And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free." (John 8:32) 6 100 Ms



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100 Truth "There is but one straight course, and that is to seek truth and pursue it steadily." -- 6 1790 Au

George Washington

100 War "If war is ever lawful, then peace is sometimes sinful." --C.S. Lewis 6 1950 Ne

100 Wonder "Two things fill my mind with ever-increasing wonder and awe: the starry heavens 6 1900 Ng

above me and the moral law within me." --Immanuel Kant

150 Value Hunger is the best pickle. -- Ben Franklin 6 1750 Au

160 Adapt Insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting a different result. - Eva 6

May Brown

160 Bold Until one is committed there is hesitancy, the chance to draw back, always 6 1960

ineffectiveness. Concerning all acts of initiative (and creation), there is one

elementary truth, the ignorance of which kills countless ideas and splendid plans: that

the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves too. All sorts of

things occur to help one that would never otherwise have occurred. A whole stream

of events issues from the decision, raising in one‘s favor all manner of unforeseen

incidents and meetings and material assistance, which no man could have dreamt

would have come his way. I have learned a deep respect for one of Goethe‘s

couplets: "Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius,

power, and magic in it." - W. H. Murray (late mountain climber)





160 Bold The only way to discover the limits of the possible is to go beyond them into the 6 1960

impossible. - Arthur C. Clarke

160 Bold When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all your 6

thoughts break their bounds: Your mind transcends limitations, your consciousness

expands in every direction and you find yourself in a new, great and wonderful world.

Dormant forces, faculties and talents become alive, and you discover yourself to be a

greater person by far than you ever dreamed yourself to be. – Patanjali



160 Creative Your imagination is your preview of life‘s coming attractions. - Albert Einstein 6 1950 Au

160 Creative The best way to predict the future is to invent it. - Alan Kay 6 1980

160 Doing No more prizes for predicting rain. Prizes only for building arks. -- Louis Gerstner 6 1990 Au



160 Effort "Any man's life will be filled with constant and unexpected encouragement if he makes 6 1850 Au

up his mind to do his level best each day." --Booker T. Washington

160 Effort "Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win great triumphs, even though checkered by 6 1910 Au

failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much,

because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat." --Theodore

Roosevelt

160 Initiative Our doubts are traitors and make us lose the good we oft might win, by fearing to 6 1600 Ne

attempt. - William Shakespeare

160 Innovate "He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils." --Francis Bacon 6 1550 Ne

160 Optimism "The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it." -- 6 200 Sc

Chinese Proverb

160 Team "We must hang together or assuredly we shall hang separately." --Benjamin Franklin 6 1780 Au



160 Thankful "In everything give thanks." (I Thessalonians 5:18) ++ "Be anxious for nothing, but in 6 30 Ms

everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made

known to God." (Philippians 4:6)

170 Parents "If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." --Thomas 6 1776 Au

Paine

170 Service This is the true joy in life, being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty 6 1920 Ne

one: being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and

grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am

of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live it is my

privilege to do for it whatever I can. I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the

harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ‗brief candle‘ to

me. It is a sort of splendid torch that I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to

make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations. -

George Bernard Shaw



180 Confidence We will either find a way or make one. – Hannibal 6 -400 Mg

180 Control "He who reigns within himself and rules his passions, desires, and fears is more than 6 1700 Ne

a king." --John Milton

180 Conviction "The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more 6 1850 Ne

important than his own personal safety, is a miserable creature and has no chance of

being free unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself." --

John Stuart Mills







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180 Humility "Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot 6 1450 Ng

make yourself as you wish to be." --Thomas a Kempis

180 Humility "The greatest act of faith is when man decides he is not God." --Oliver Wendell 6 1860 au

Holmes

180 Humility "I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish 6 1900 Au

small tasks as if they were great and noble." --Helen Keller

180 Persist "Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose 6 1800 Nf

courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying

them -- every day begin the task anew." --Saint Francis de Sales

180 Persist "I never failed once. It just happened to be a 2000-step process." --Thomas Edison 6 1880 Au



180 Persist I am not discouraged, because every wrong attempt discarded is another step 6 1880 Au

forward. - Thomas Edison

180 Pride "Other sins find their vent in the accomplishment of evil deeds, whereas pride lies in 6 300 Mi

wait for good deeds, to destroy them." --St. Augustine

180 Pride "None are more readily taken with flattery than the proud who wish to be first but are 6 1600 Mi

not." –Spinoza

180 Pride "The vice I am talking about is Pride or Self-Conceit: and the virtue opposite to it, in 6 1950 Ne

Christian morals, is called Humility. ... According to Christian teachers, the essential

vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere

flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride

leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind." --C. S. Lewis



180 Suffer "By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity -- another man's I mean." --Mark 6 1850 Au

Twain

180 Work When you cease to make a contribution, you begin to die. - Eleanor Roosevelt 6 1940 Au

200 oneness "That which is now called the Christian religion existed among the ancients, and never 6 300 Mi

did not exist from the planting of the human race until Christ came in the flesh, at

which time the true religion which already existed began to be called Christianity." --St.

Augustine

230 Apology "In the absence of any other proof, the thumb would convince me of God's existence." 6 1600 Ne

--Isaac Newton

230 LoveGod "When I have learnt to love God better than my earthly dearest, I shall love my earthly 6 1955 Ne

dearest better than I do now. In so far as I learn to love my earthly dearest at the

expense of God and instead of God, I shall be moving towards the state in which I

shall not love my earthly dearest at all. When first things are put first, second things

are not suppressed but increased." --C. S. Lewis

310 Encourage Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do 6 1880 Au

that, but the really great make you feel that you, too, can become great. - Mark Twain



310 Leaders Years ago at our commisioning ceremonies at Quantico, our Marine Commandant, 6 1980 Au

General Cushman, gave us the following words. "The officer administers, the leader

innovates. The officer maintains, the leader develops. The officer relies on systems,

the leader relies on people. The officer counts on controls. the leader counts on trust.

The officer does things right, the leader does the right thing."



310 Respect If he works for you, you work for him. -- Japanese proverb 6 Sj

310 Trust Trust is the highest form of human motivation. It brings out the best in people. -- 6 1990

Stephen R. Covey

320 Involve "It does not take a majority to prevail ... but rather an irate, tireless minority, keen on 6 1790 Au

setting brushfires of freedom in the minds of men." -- Samuel Adams

320 Leaders "Public virtue cannot exist in a nation without private -- and public virtue is the only 6 1790 Au

foundation of republics." --John Adams

320 Liberty "If you love wealth better than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the 6 1775 Au

animating contest of freedom, go home from us in peace. We ask not your counsels

or arms. Crouch down and lick the hands which feed you. May your chains set lightly

upon you and may posterity forget that ye were our countrymen." -- Samuel Adams



320 Liberty "Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and 6 1790 Au

vicious, they have more need of masters." --Benjamin Franklin

320 Liberty "If a nation expects to be ignorant -- and free -- in a state of civilization, it expects what 6 1790 Au

never was and never will be." --Thomas Jefferson

320 Liberty "War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things; the decayed and degraded state of 6 1850 Au

moral and patriotic feeling which thinks nothing worth a war, is worse. A man who has

nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety is a

miserable creature who has no chance at being free, unless made and kept so by the

exertions of better men than himself." -- John Stuart Mill





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320 Power "There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to 6 1780 Au

trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty." --John Adams



320 Rights "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to 6 1776 Au

dissolve the political bands which have connected them.... We hold these truths to be

self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator

with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of

Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men,

deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form

of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to

alter or to abolish it...it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such Government, and

to provide new Guards for their future security. ... For the support of this declaration,

with a firm reliance on the protection of the Divine Providence, we mutually pledge to

each other, our lives, our fortunes, and our sacred honor." --Declaration of

Independence





320 Rights "A free people [claim] their rights as derived from the laws of nature, and not as the 6 1790 Au

gift of their chief magistrate. ... The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same

time; the hand of force may destroy, but cannot disjoin them." --Thomas Jefferson



370 Character "It should be your care, therefore, and mine, to elevate the minds of our children and 6 1820 Au

exalt their courage; to accelerate and animate their industry and activity; to excite in

them an habitual contempt of meanness, abhorrence of injustice and inhumanity, and

an ambition to excel in every capacity, faculty, and virtue. If we suffer their minds to

grovel and creep in infancy, they will grovel all their lives." --John Adams



0 Life We cannot put off living until we are ready. The most salient characteristic of life is its Ortega 5 1940 ns

coerciveness: it is always urgent, ‗here and now‘ without any possible postponement.

Life is fired at us point blank. - Jose Ortega y Gasset

0 Money "Money is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master." --P. T. Barnum Barnum 5 1900 Au

0 Sowing "It is reasonable that every one who asks justice should do justice." --Thomas Jefferson 5 1790 Au

Jefferson

100 Begin "We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once." --Calvin 5 1920 Au

Coolidge

100 Evil "Do not let us mistake necessary evils for good." --C.S. Lewis 5 1940 Ne

100 Knowing "He who knows not, and knows not that he knows not, is a fool...shun him. He who 5 100 Sc

knows not, and knows that he knows not, is willing...teach him. He who knows, and

knows not that he knows, is asleep...awaken him. He who knows, and knows that he

knows, is wise...follow him." --Chinese proverb

100 Purpose "There remains for us only the very narrow way, often extremely difficult to find, of 5 1940 Ng

living every day as though it were our last, and yet living in faith and responsibility as

though there were to be a great future." --Dietrich Bonhoeffer

100 Reason "Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same 5 200 Mi

weapons of reason which today arm you against the present." --Marcus Aurelius



100 Reason Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocrities. The latter cannot 5 1950 Au

understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but

honestly and courageously uses his intelligence. --Albert Einstein:



100 Rewards "The highest reward for man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it." 5

--John Ruskin

100 Suffer "Every noble crown is, and on earth will forever be, a crown of thorns." --Thomas 5 1700 Ne

Carlyle

100 Thought Thought is only a flash between two long nights. But this flash is every thing. -- H. 5

Poincare

100 Truth "Contradiction is not a sign of falsity, nor the lack of contradiction a sign of truth." -- 5 1700 Nf

Blaise Pascal

100 Value "An object in possession seldom retains the same charm that it had in pursuit." --Pliny 5 100 Mi

the younger

100 Value "The value of liberty was thus enhanced in our estimation by the difficulty of its 5 1790 Au

attainment, and the worth of characters appreciated by the trial of adversity." --George

Washington

100 Vision We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. -- Oscar Wilde 5 Au

100 Wisdom "All receive advice. Only the wise profit from it." --Syrus 5 100 Mg









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160 Bold Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men 5 1900 Au

as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright

exposure. Life is a daring adventure, or nothing. - Helen Keller



160 Bold Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. George Bernard Shaw 5 1920 Ne

160 Bold What saves a man is to take a step. - Antoine de Saint-Exupert 5 Nf

160 Caring "The hottest places in Hell are reserved for those who remain neutral in time of great 5 1300 Mi

moral crisis." --Dante Alighieri

160 Control People more often need to be reminded than informed. -- Dr. Samuel Johnson 5



160 Discern "We often give our enemies the means for our own destruction." --Aesop 5 -800 Mg

160 Discern "Everything that deceives may be said to enchant." --Plato 5 -400 Mg

160 Initiative You can‘t light a fire without a spark. -- Bruce Springsteen 5 1990 Au

160 Now Make the most of the present moment. No occasion is unworthy of our best efforts. 5 1850 Au

God often uses the humble occasions and little things to shape the course of a man's

life." --President James Garfield

160 Parents "Like it or not, we're teaching our children from the moment they come into the world. 5 2001 au

They watch us like hawks. As they see us obey laws, treat others with respect and

remain faithful to our spouse, they learn to do those things, too. If we engage in

watching raunchy videos, use foul language or cave in to the cultural pressures on us

as adults, how can we expect them, as children, to not give in to pressure?" --

Rebecca Hagelin

160 Thought Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international 5 1920 ne

reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. - George Bernard Shaw



170 Compassion Our task must be to free ourselves . . . by widening our circle of compassion to 5 1950 Au

embrace all living beings and all of nature. (Albert Einstein)

170 Kindness ―It is the characteristic of the magnanimous man to ask no favor but to be ready to do 5 -370 Mg

kindness to others.‖ -- Aristotle

170 Parent "The great man is he who does not lose his child's heart." --Mencius 5 1500 Mi

170 Parent "There are many ways to measure success; not the least of which is the way your 5

child describes you when talking to a friend." --Unknown

170 Selfless When we quit thinking primarily about ourselves and our own self-preservation, we 5

undergo a truly heroic transformation of consciousness. - Joseph Campbell



170 Service "Life is a place of service, and in that service one has to suffer a great deal that is 5 1850 Nr

hard to bear, but more often to experience a great deal of joy. But that joy can be real

only if people look upon their lives as a service and have a definite object in life

outside themselves and their personal happiness." --Leo Tolstoy



170 Service How can I be useful, of what service can I be? There is something inside me, what 5

can it be? - Vincent Van Gogh

170 Service I don‘t know what your destiny will be, but one thing I know: the only ones among you 5

who will be really happy are those who have sought and found how to serve. - Albert

Schweitzer

180 Caring "No man is a good citizen unless he so acts as to show that he actually uses the Ten 5 1900 Au

Commandments, and translates the Golden Rule into his life conduct." --Theodore

Roosevelt

180 Control "When anger enters the mind, wisdom departs." --Thomas Kempis 5 1200 Ng

180 Courage "It is better by noble boldness to run the risk of being subject to half the evils we 5 -600 Mg

anticipate than to remain in cowardly listlessness for fear of what might happen." --

Herodotus

180 Courage Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgment that something else is 5

more important than fear. -Ambrose Red Moon

180 Doing "He does not believe, that does not live according to his belief." --Thomas Fuller 5



180 Freedom "Freedom is not procured by a full enjoyment of what is desired, but by controlling that 5 -200 Mg

desire." --Epictetus

180 Integrity "Let no man turn aside, ever so slightly, from the broad path of honor, on the plausible 5 1800 Ne

pretence that he is justified by the goodness of his end. All good ends can be worked

out by good means." --Charles Dickens

180 Integrity "The only guide to a man is his conscience; the only shield to his memory is the 5 1945 Ne

rectitude and sincerity of his actions. It is very imprudent to walk through life without

this shield, because we are so often mocked by the failure of our hopes and the

upsetting of our calculations; but with this shield, however the fates may play, we

march always in the ranks of honor." --Sir Winston S. Churchill







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180 Persevere "Energy and persistence conquer all things." ---Benjamin Franklin 5 1770 au

180 Persist "Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent. The slogan 'press on' has 5 1920 Au

solved and always will solve the problems of the human race." --Calvin Coolidge



180 Respect "I was taught to respect everyone for the simple reason that we're all God's children. I 5 1990 Au

was taught, in the words of Martin Luther King, to judge a man not by the color of his

skin, but by the content of his character. And I was taught that character is simply

doing what's right when nobody's looking." --Julius Caesar (J.C.) Watts



180 Sacrifice "Posterity -- you will never know how much it has cost my generation to preserve your 5 1820 Au

freedom. I hope you will make good use of it." --John Quincy Adams



180 Strength "If we lived in a state where virtue was profitable, common sense would make us 5 1700 Ne

saintly. But since we see that avarice, anger, pride and stupidity commonly profit far

beyond charity, modesty, justice and thought, perhaps we must stand fast a little, even

at the risk of being heroes." --Sir Thomas More, as quoted in the movie "A Man For All

Seasons"

180 Work I am a great believer in luck, and I find that the harder I work, the more of it I have. - 5 1790 Au

Thomas Jefferson

200 Faith "Faith is to believe what you do not yet see; the reward for this faith is to see what you 5 300 Mi

believe." --Saint Augustine

230 Apology "The greatest proof of Christianity for others is not how far a man can logically analyze 5 1920 Au

his reasons for believing, but how far in practice he will stake his life on his belief." --T.

S. Eliot

230 Bible "The system of revealed truth which this Book [the Bible] contains is like that of the 5 1650 Ne

universe, concealed from common observation yet...the centuries have established its

Divine origin." --Sir Isaac Newton

230 Bible "The Bible is like a telescope. If a man looks through his telescope, then he sees 5

worlds beyond; but if he looks at his telescope, then he does not see anything but

that. The Bible is a thing to be looked through, to see that which is beyond." --Phillips

Brooks

310 Action "'Status quo,' you know, that is Latin for 'the mess we're in.'" --Ronald Reagan 5 1980 Au

320 Basis "What is government itself but the greatest of all reflections on human nature?" -- 5 1800 Au

James Madison

320 Cycle "Our new Constitution is now established, and has an appearance that promises 5 1790 Au

permanency; but in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and

taxes." --Ben Franklin

320 Cycle "History fails to record a single precedent in which nations subject to moral decay 5 1950 Au

have not passed into political and economic decline. There has been either a spiritual

awakening to overcome the moral lapse, or a progressive deterioration leading to

ultimate national disaster." --General Douglas MacArthur



320 Debt "The national budget must be balanced. The public debt must be reduced; the 5 100 Mi

arrogance of the authorities must be moderated and controlled. Payments to foreign

governments must be reduced, if the nation doesn't want to go bankrupt. People must

again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance." --Marcus Tullius Cicero, 55

B.C.

320 Involve "One of the penalties for refusing to participate in politics is that you end up being 5 -400 Mg

governed by your inferiors." --Plato

320 Involve "A nation, as a society, forms a moral person, and every member of it is personally 5 1780 Au

responsible for his society." --Thomas Jefferson

320 Leaders "The public cannot be too curious concerning the characters of public men." --Samuel 5 1800 Au

Adams

320 Liberty "Proclaim liberty throughout the land unto all the inhabitants thereof." (Leviticus 25:10, 5 1780 Au

as inscribed on the Liberty Bell)

320 Liberty "Experience teaches us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the 5 1980 Au

government's purpose is beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel

invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in

insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding." --

Supreme Court Justice Brandeis

320 Liberty "Isn't our choice really not one of left or right, but of up or down? Down through the 5 1984 Au

welfare state to statism, to more and more government largesse accompanied always

by more government authority, less individual liberty, and ultimately, totalitarianism,

always advanced as for our own good. The alternative is the dream conceived by our

Founding Fathers, up to the ultimate in individual freedom consistent with an orderly

society. We don't celebrate dependence day on the Fourth of July. We celebrate

Independence Day." --Ronald Reagan (1984)





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320 Liberty "The people never give up their liberties but under some delusion." --Edmund Burke 5



320 Liberty ―But what is liberty without wisdom, and without virtue? It is the greatest of all possible 5

evils; for it is folly, vice, and madness, without tuition or restraint.‖ --Edmund Burke



320 Power "Exceeding the bounds of authority is no more a right in a great than in a petty officer, 5 1650 ne

no more justifiable in a king than in a constable; but is so much the worse in him, in

that he has more trust put in him, has already a much greater share than the rest of

his brethren, and is supposed from the advantages of his education, employment, and

counsellors, to be more knowing in the measures of right and wrong." --John Locke



320 Power "Society in every state is a blessing, but government, even in its best state, is but a 5 1770 Au

necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one; for when we suffer or are exposed

to the same miseries by a government, which we might expect in a country without

government, our calamity is heightened by reflecting that we furnish the means by

which we suffer." --Thomas Paine

320 Power "In questions of power, then, let no more be heard of confidence in man, but bind him 5 1790 Au

down from mischief by the chains of the Constitution." --Thomas Jefferson



320 Power "The difference between the path toward greater freedom or bigger government is the 5 1980 Au

difference between success and failure; between opportunity and coercion; between

faith in a glorious future and fear of mediocrity and despair; between respecting

people as adults, each with a spark of greatness, and treating them as helpless

children to be forever dependent; between a drab, materialistic world where Big

Brother rules by promises to special interest groups, and a world of adventure where

everyday people set their sights on impossible dreams, distant stars, and the Kingdom

of God. We have the true message of hope for America." --Ronald Reagan (1984)







320 Taxes "A wise and frugal government ... shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it 5 1790 Au

has earned." --Thomas Jefferson

320 Virtue "Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, religion and 5 1780 Au

morality are indispensable supports." --George Washington

320 Virtue "A general dissolution of principles and manners will more surely overthrow the 5 1790 Au

liberties of America than the whole force of the common enemy. While the people are

virtuous they cannot be subdued; but when once they lose their virtue then will be

ready to surrender their liberties to the first external or internal invader." --Samuel

Adams

320 Virtue "Religion and good morals are the only solid foundation of public liberty and 5 1800 Au

happiness." --Samuel Adams

320 Virtue "Our constitution was made only for a moral and religious people." --John Adams 5 1800 Au



320 virtue "Money will not purchase character or good government." --Calvin Coolidge 5 1900 Au

330 Markets "Some people, even in my own country, look at the riot of experiment that is the free 5 1988 Au

market and see only waste. What of all the entrepreneurs that fail? Well, many do,

particularly the successful ones; often several times. And if you ask them the secret of

their success, they'll tell you it's all that they learned in their struggles along the way;

yes, it's what they learned from failing. Like an athlete in competition or a scholar in

pursuit of the truth, experience is the greatest teacher. And that's why it's so hard for

government planners, no matter how sophisticated, to ever substitute for millions of

individuals working night and day to make their dreams come true." --Ronald Reagan







330 Principles "Yellow journalism deifies the cult of the mendacious, the sensational, the inane, and, 5 1910 Au

throughout its wide but vapid field, does as much to vulgarize and degrade the

popular taste, to weaken the popular character, and to dull the edge of the popular

conscience, as any influence under which the country can suffer. These men sneer at

the very idea of paying heed to the dictates of a sound morality; as one of their

number has cynically put it, they are concerned merely with selling the public whatever

the public will buy -- a theory of conduct which would justify the existence of every

keeper of an opium den, of every foul creature who ministers to the vices of mankind."

--Theodore Roosevelt



340 Begin "All bad precedents begin as justifiable measures." -- Julius Caesar 5 -100 Mi

340 Limits The real law lives in the kindness of our hearts. If our hearts are empty, no law or 5 1880 Nr

political reform can fill them. (Tolstoy)

340 Moral "The law is the witness and external deposit of our moral life. Its history is the history 5 1880 au

of the moral development of the race." --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.



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350 Military "...I've called for whatever it takes to be so strong that no other nation will dare violate 5 1980 Au

the peace. If that means superiority, so be it. ... You and I know and do not believe

that life is so dear and peace so sweet as to be purchased at the price of chains and

slavery. [I]s it worth dying for...? Should Moses have told the children of Israel to live in

slavery under the pharaohs? Should Christ have refused the cross? Should the

patriots of Concord Bridge have thrown down their guns and refused to fire the shot

heard round the world? The martyrs of history were not fools...." --Ronald Reagan



370 Inspire "The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher 5

demonstrates. The great teacher inspires." -- William Arthur Ward

800 Humor "Only kings, editors, and people with tapeworm have the right to use the editorial 'we'." 5 1880 Au

--Mark Twain

910 Freedom "I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its 5 1965 Au

creed: 'We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal.' ...I

have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation where they will not be

judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character. ...And if America

is to be a great nation this must become true. So let freedom ring from the prodigious

hilltops of New Hampshire. Let freedom ring from the mighty mountains of New York.

Let freedom ring from the heightening Alleghenies of Pennsylvania! Let freedom ring

from the snowcapped Rockies of Colorado! Let freedom ring from the curvaceous

slopes of California! But not only that; let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of

Georgia! Let freedom ring from Lookout Mountain of Tennessee! Let freedom ring

from every hill and molehill of Mississippi. From every mountainside, let freedom ring."

--Martin Luther King, Jr.





0 Becoming "If we are forced, at every hour, to watch or listen to horrible events, this constant Cicero 4 100 Mi

stream of ghastly impressions will deprive even the most delicate among us of all

respect for humanity." – Cicero

0 Money "Prosperity is only an instrument to be used, not a deity to be worshipped." --Calvin Coolidge 4 1920 Au

Coolidge

0 Vision The important thing in life is to have a great aim and to possess the aptitude and the 4 1800 Ng

perseverance to attain it. - Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

0 Vision In the long run you only hit what you aim at. Therefore, though you should fail 4 1850 Au

immediately, you had better aim at something high. - Henry David Thoreau

0 Vision "Our truest life is when we are in dreams awake." --Henry David Thoreau 4 1880 Au

100 Adversity "But bearing what we cannot change and going on with what God has given us, 4 1980 Au

confident there is a destiny, somehow seems to bring a reward we wouldn't exchange

for any other. It takes a lot of fire and heat to make a piece of steel." --Ronald Reagan



100 Attitude Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we 4 1980 au

live. - Norman Cousins

100 Happiness A happy life is one which is in accord with its own nature. – Seneca 4 200 Mi

100 Happiness "Your love of liberty -- your respect for the laws -- your habits of industry -- and your 4 1790 Au

practice of the moral and religious obligations, are the strongest claims to national and

individual happiness." --George Washington

100 Heroes "It is foolish and wrong to mourn the men who died. Rather we should thank God that 4 1945 Au

such men lived." --Gen. George S. Patton

100 Human "Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about 4 1950 Au

the former." --Albert Einstein

100 Knowing Physical concepts are the creation of the human mind, and are not, however it may 4 1950

seem, determined by our external world. In our endeavor to understand reality, we are

somewhat like a man trying to understand the mechanism of a closed watch. - Albert

Einstein

100 Reason "I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, 4 1600 Mi

reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use." --Galileo Galilei



100 Success The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation. - Mark Twain 4 1880 Au

100 Success "Success -- the real success -- does not depend upon the position you hold, but upon 4 1910 Au

how you carry yourself in that position." --Theodore Roosevelt

100 Truth "Freedom had been hunted round the globe; reason was considered as rebellion; and 4 1780 Au

the slavery of fear had made men afraid to think. But such is the irresistible nature of

truth, that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of appearing." --Thomas Paine



100 value "We have grasped the mystery of the atom and rejected the Sermon on the Mount.... 4 1950 Au

The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear

giants and ethical infants." --General Omar Bradley







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150 Fear "Grief has limits, whereas apprehension has none. For we grieve only for what we 4 200 Mi

know has happened, but we fear all that possibly may happen." --Pliny the Younger



150 Mistakes "We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by 4 1650 Nf

those given to us by others." --Blaise Pascal

160 Accepting "Make a virtue of necessity." --Geoffrey Chaucer 4 1600 Ne

160 Curiosity Questions are the creative acts of intelligence. - Frank Kingdomy 4

160 Discern "Learn to say no. It will be of more use to you than to be able to read Latin." --Charles 4 1850 Au

Haddon Spurgeon

160 Discern "Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without 4 Ne

any visible reason." --Lord Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield

160 Doing "The human race is divided into two classes -- those who go ahead and do something, 4 1900 au

and those who sit still and inquire, 'Why wasn't it done the other way?' "-- Oliver

Wendell Holmes, Jr.

160 Effort "To sit home, read one's favorite newspaper, and scoff at the misdeeds of the men 4 1910 Au

who do things is easy, but it is markedly ineffective. It is what evil men count upon the

good men doing." --Theodore Roosevelt

160 Frugal "We must make our election between economy and liberty, or profusion and 4 1780 Au

servitude." --Thomas Jefferson

160 Frugal "There is no dignity quite so impressive, and no independence quite so important, as 4 1920 Au

living within your means." --Calvin Coolidge

160 Initiative "Small opportunities are often the beginning of great enterprises." --Demosthenes 4 -200 Mg



160 Initiative "A wise man will make more opportunities than he finds." -- Francis Bacon 4 1550 Ne

160 Initiative "Next to knowing when to seize an opportunity, the most important thing in life is to 4 1880 ne

know when to forego an advantage." --Benjamin Disraeli

160 Parents "By profession I am a soldier and take great pride in that fact, but I am prouder, 4 1950 Au

infinitely prouder, to be a father. A soldier destroys in order to build; the father only

builds, never destroys. The one has the potentialities of death; the other embodies

creations and life. And while the hordes of death are mighty, the battalions of life are

mightier still." --General Douglas MacArthur

160 Responsible There are really only two ways to approach life - as a victim or as a gallant fighter - 4

and you must decide if you want to act or react, deal your own cards or play with a

stacked deck. And if you don‘t decide which way to play with life, it will always play

with you. - Merle Shain

160 Words "Blessed is the man who, having nothing to say, abstains from giving in words 4 1850 Ne

evidence of the fact." --George Eliot

170 Selfless "What do I owe to my times, to my country, to my neighbors, to my friends? Such are 4 1700 Nf

the questions which a virtuous man ought often to ask himself." --Lavater



170 Selfless In an article on Our Goal Is Unity in The Free World of October, 1944, Dr. Albert 4 1950 Au

Einstein regretfully took note of "an odious materialistic attitude toward life which leads

to the predominance of an unrestrained selfishness."

170 Service May your work be in keeping with your purpose. - Leonardo Da Vinci 4 1550 Mi

170 Service You do not belong to you. You belong to the universe. The significance of you will 4 1940 Au

remain forever obscure to you, but you may assume you are fulfilling your significance

if you apply yourself to converting all your experiences to highest advantage of others.

- R. Buckminster Fuller

180 Courage "The bravest are surely those who have the clearest vision of what is before them, 4 -400 Mg

glory and danger alike, and notwithstanding go out to meet it." –Thucydides



180 Courage "Courage easily finds its own eloquence." --Plautus 4 200 Mi

180 Courage "It is better to die on one's feet than to live on one's knees." --Albert Camus 4

180 Freedom "Freedom can't be kept for nothing. If you set a high value on liberty, you must set a 4 200 Mi

low value on everything else." --Lucius Annaeus

180 Freedom "A nation which can prefer disgrace to danger is prepared for a master, and deserves 4 1780 Au

one!" --Alexander Hamilton

180 Freedom "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve 4 1780 Au

neither liberty nor safety." --Benjamin Franklin

180 Freedom "The history of free men is never really written by chance but by choice -- their choice." 4 1950 Au

--Dwight D. Eisenhower

180 Freedom "It was the spirit of liberty which gave us our armed strength and which made our men 4 1950 Au

invincible in battle. We now know that that spirit of liberty, the freedom of the

individual, and the personal dignity of man, are the strongest and toughest and most

enduring forces in all the world." --Harry S. Truman

180 Honest "No legacy is so rich as honesty." --William Shakespeare 4 1500 Ne







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180 Integrity "The right thing to do never requires any subterfuge; it is always simple and direct." -- 4 1920 Au

Calvin Coolidge

180 Persist "Character is much easier kept than recovered." --Thomas Paine 4 1770 Au

180 Persist Let me tell you the secret that has led me to my goal. My strength lies solely in my 4 1880 Nf

tenacity. - Louis Pasteur

180 Persist "Never give in! Never give in! Never, Never, Never -- in nothing great or small, large or 4 1940 Ne

petty -- never give in except to convictions of honor and good sense." --Winston

Churchill

180 Persist "Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice, moderation in the pursuit of justice is 4 1980 Au

no virtue." --Barry Goldwater

180 Persist "One is defeated only when one accepts defeat." --Marshall Foch 4

180 Persist "Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall." --Oliver Goldsmith 4



180 Posterity "The name of American, which belongs to you, in your national capacity, must always 4 1790 Au

exalt the just pride of Patriotism.... It should be the highest ambition of every American

to extend his views beyond himself, and to bear in mind that his conduct will not only

affect himself, his country, and his immediate posterity; but that its influence may be

co-extensive with the world, and stamp political happiness or misery on ages yet

unborn." --George Washington

180 posterity "Courage, then, my countrymen, our contest is not only whether we ourselves shall be 4 1800 Au

free, but whether there shall be left to mankind an asylum on earth for civil and

religious liberty." --Samuel Adams

180 Posterity "Let the American youth never forget, that they possess a noble inheritance, bought 4 1970 Au

by the toils, and sufferings, and blood of their ancestors; and capacity, if wisely

improved, and faithfully guarded, of transmitting to their latest posterity all the

substantial blessings of life, the peaceful enjoyment of liberty, property, religion, and

independence." --Justice Joseph Story

180 Posterity ―To save your world you asked this man to die; Would this man, could he see you 4

now, ask why?‖ --Wystan H. Auden, Epitaph for an unknown soldier

180 Strength "These are the times that try men's souls: The summer soldier and the sunshine 4 1776 Au

patriot will, in this crisis, shrink from the service of his country; but he that stands it

NOW, deserves the love and thanks of man and woman." --Thomas Paine



180 Work We work not only to produce but to give value to time. -- Eugene Delacroix 4

180 "Reputation is what you are perceived to be. Character is what you are." --John 4 1990 au

Wooden

200 Hope "A baby is God's opinion that the world should go on." --Carl Sandburg 4

200 Sowing "He who provides for this life, but takes no care for eternity, is wise for a moment, but 4

a fool forever." --Tillotson

230 Belief "If you believe what you like in the gospel, and reject what you don't like, it is not the 4 300 Mi

gospel you believe, but yourself." --St. Augustine

230 Church "Being a lover of freedom, when the (Nazi) revolution came, I looked to the 4 1950 Au

universities to defend it, knowing that they had always boasted of their devotion to the

cause of truth; but no, the universities were immediately silenced. Then I looked to the

great editors of the newspapers, whose flaming editorials in days gone by had

proclaimed their love of freedom; but they, like the universities, were silenced in a few

short weeks...Only the Church stood squarely across the path of Hitler's campaign for

suppressing truth. I never had any special interest in the Church before, but now I feel

a great affection and admiration for it because the Church alone has had the courage

and persistence to stand for intellectual and moral freedom. I am forced to confess

that what I once despised I now praise unreservedly." --Albert Einstein from Kampi

und Zeugnis der bekennenden Kirche





230 Faith "If God would concede to me His omnipotence for twenty-four hours, you would see 4

how many changes I would make in this world. But if He gave me His wisdom, too, I

would leave things as they are." --J.M.L. Monsabre

230 Freedom "In France I had almost always seen the spirit of religion and the spirit of freedom 4 1870 Au

marching in opposite directions. But in America I found they were intimately united

and that they reigned in common over the same country.... Religion in America...must

be regarded as the foremost of the political institutions of that country; for if it does not

impart a taste for freedom, it facilitates the use of it....There is no country in the whole

world where the Christian religion retains a greater influence over the souls of men

than in America, and there can be no greater proof of its utility...than that its influence

is powerfully felt over the most enlightened and free nation of the earth." --Alexis de

Tocqueville in "Democracy in America"









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230 Govern "When Abraham Lincoln spoke in his famous Gettysburg speech of 1863 of 4 1980 Ne

'government of the people, by the people, and for the people,' he gave the world a

neat definition of democracy which has since been widely and enthusiastically

adopted. But what he enunciated as a form of government was not in itself especially

Christian, for nowhere in the Bible is the word democracy mentioned. ... Ideally, when

Christians meet, as Christians, to take counsel together, their purpose is not (or

should not be) to ascertain what is the mind of the majority but what is the mind of the

Holy Spirit -- something which may be quite different. ... Nevertheless I am an

enthusiast for democracy. And I take that position, not because I believe majority

opinion is inevitably right or true -- indeed no majority can take away God-given

human rights -- but because I believe it most effectively safeguards the value of the

individual, and, more than any other system, restrains the abuse of power by the few.

And that is a Christian concept." --Margaret Thatcher





230 Happiness "True happiness does not consist in the accumulation of goods: money, cars, houses. 4 1980 au

Nor is it to be found in pleasure seeking: eating, drinking, sex. And humans do not

attain lasting joy by power grabbing, dominating others, or heaping up public acclaim.

These three things, good in themselves when properly sought, were not able to confer

on Solomon, perfect happiness. And they will not be able to confer it on anyone else!

...Happiness is attained by achieving the purpose of our earthly existence. God made

me to know him, to love him, to serve him in this world and to be happy with him

forever in the next. Saint Augustine found this out in his later age after making many

mistakes in his youth. He then cried out to God: 'You have made us for yourself, and

our heart is restless until it rests in you.' ...My religion guides and helps me towards

this. My Catholic faith puts me in contact with Jesus Christ who is the way, the truth

and the life ... God's grace helps me to live on earth in such a way as to attain the

purpose of my earthly existence.... [A]llow your religion to give your life its essential

and major orientation. In our lives, religion is not something marginal, peripheral,

additional, optional. My Catholic faith gives meaning and a sense of direction to my

life. It gives it unity. Without it my life would be like an agglomeration of scattered

310 Action "If Columbus had an advisory committee he would probably still be at the dock." -- 4 1980 Au

Justice Arthur Goldberg

310 Business It is not the employer who pays the wages - he only handles the money. It is the 4 1920 Au

product that pays the wages. -- Henry Ford

310 Details The spirt of the thing lies in the detail. -- Ludwig Mies van der Rohe 4 1900 Ng

310 Leaders The question ‗Who ought to be boss?‘ is like asking ‗Who ought to be the tenor in the 4 1920 Au

quartet?‘ Obviously, the man who can sing tenor. - Henry Ford

310 Manage Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. -- C. Northcote 4

Parkinson

320 Congress "You know how Congress is. They'll vote for anything if the thing they vote for will turn 4 1950 Au

around and vote for them. Politics ain't nothing but reciprocity." --Will Rogers



320 Corrupt "Nowadays, for the sake of the advantage which is to be gained from the public 4 -370 Mg

revenues and from office, men want to be always in office." –Aristotle

320 Corrupt "When a government has ceased to protect the lives, liberty, and property of the 4 1850 Au

people...and...becomes an instrument in the hands of evil rulers for their

oppression...it is a...sacred obligation to their posterity to abolish such government,

and create another in its stead." --Sam Houston

320 Corrupt "Republics...fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils, because they 4

dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because they flatter the people, in

order to betray them." --Joseph Story

320 Cycle "The body politic, as well as the human body, begins to die as soon as it is born, and 4 1700 Nf

carries in itself the causes of its destruction." --Jean Jacques Rousseau



320 Cycle "The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and 4 1790 Au

tyrants. ... Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God." --Thomas Jefferson



320 Debt "No pecuniary consideration is more urgent, than the regular redemption and 4 1790 Au

discharge of the public debt: on none can delay be more injurious, or an economy of

time more valuable." --George Washington

320 Debt "The multiplication of public offices, increase of expense beyond income, growth and 4 1820 Au

entailment of a public debt, are indications soliciting the employment of the pruning

knife." --Thomas Jefferson

320 Foreign "Personally, I'm for foreign aid. And the sooner we get it, the better." --Bob Hope 4 1960 Au



320 Foreign "We desire peace. But peace is a goal, not a policy. Lasting peace is what we hope 4 1980 Au

for at the end of our journey. It doesn't describe the steps we must take nor the paths

we should follow to reach that goal." --Ronald Reagan





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320 Hope "At times a great crisis comes in which a great people, perchance led by a great man, 4 1910 Au

can...make a long stride in advance along the path of justice and orderly liberty." --

Theodore Roosevelt

320 Humor "They are voting whether to keep a governor two years or four. I think a good, honest 4 1950 Au

governor should get four years, and the others life." --Will Rogers

320 Humor "I love to see politicians pray. It keeps their hands out where you can see what they're 4 1960 Au

doing." --Bob Hope

320 Involve "It is the common fate of the indolent to see their rights become a prey to the active. 4 1700 Ne

The condition upon which God hath given liberty to man is eternal vigilance; which

condition if he break, servitude is at once the consequence of his crime and the

punishment of his guilt." --John Philpot Curran

320 Leaders "I hope our country will never see the time, when either riches or the want of them will 4 1800 Au

be the leading considerations in the choice of public officers." --Samuel Adams



320 Leaders "In selecting men for office, let principle be your guide. Regard not the particular sect 4 1860 Au

or denomination of the candidate -- look to his character...." --Noah Webster



320 Liberty "Liberty, the greatest of all earthly blessings -- give us that precious jewel, and you 4 1770 Au

may take every thing else! ... Guard with jealous attention the public liberty. Suspect

every one who approaches that jewel." --Patrick Henry

320 Liberty "Liberty must at all hazards be supported. We have a right to it, derived from our 4 1800 Au

Maker." --John Adams

320 Liberty "Free speech does not live many hours after free industry and free commerce die." -- 4 1930 Au

Herbert Hoover

320 Open "The party which, in its drive for unity, discipline and success ever decides to exclude 4 1965 Au

new ideas, independent conduct or insurgent members, is in danger." --John F.

Kennedy

320 Politics "Politics, n. strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles." --Ambrose 4 1850 Ne

Bierce

320 Power "The constitutions of most of our States assert that all power is inherent in the people; 4 1790 Au

...that it is their right and duty to be at all times armed." --Thomas Jefferson



320 Power "The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government are 4 1790 Au

few and defined." --James Madison, Federalist No. 45

320 Power "The less government we have, the better -- the fewer laws, and the less confided 4 1850 Au

power." --Ralph Waldo Emerson

320 Taxes "When everybody has got money they cut taxes, and when they're broke they raise 4 1920 Au

'em. That's statesmanship of the highest order." --Will Rogers

320 Taxes "Lord, the money we do spend on government and it's not one bit better than the 4 1920 Au

government we got for one-third the money twenty years ago." --Will Rogers



320 Taxes "When a man spends his own money to buy something for himself, he is very careful 4 1940 Au

about how much he spends and how he spends it. When a man spends his own

money to buy something for someone else, he is still very careful about how much he

spends, but somewhat less what he spends it on. When a man spends someone

else's money to buy something for himself, he is very careful about what he buys, but

doesn't care at all how much he spends. And when a man spends someone else's

money on someone else, he doesn't care how much he spends or what he spends it

on. And that's government for you." --Economist and Nobel Laureate Milton Friedman







320 Treaties "The history of treaties throughout the centuries is such that one should not stake 4 1980 Au

one's life on a treaty." --Ronald Reagan

320 Virtue "Morality has perished through poverty of great men; a poverty for which we must not 4 300 Mi

only assign a reason, but for the guilt of which we must answer as criminals charged

with a capital crime. For it is through our vices, and not by any mishap, that we retain

only the name of a republic, and have long since lost the reality." –Augustine



320 Virtue "And can the liberties of a nation be thought secure when we have removed their only 4 1790 Au

firm basis, a conviction in the minds of the people that these liberties are the gift of

God? That they are not to be violated but with his wrath? Indeed I tremble for my

country when I reflect that God is just: that his justice cannot sleep for ever." --Thomas

Jefferson

320 Virtue "Political right and public happiness are different words for the same idea." --Samuel 4 1800 Au

Adams

320 Virtue "We can as little afford to tolerate a dishonest man in the public service as a coward in 4 1910 Au

the army." --Theodore Roosevelt





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320 Virtue "When there is a lack of honor in government, the morals of the whole people are 4 1930 Au

poisoned." --Herbert Hoover

320 Welfare "I am for doing good to the poor, but I differ in opinion of the means. I think the best 4 1800 Au

way of doing good to the poor, is not making them easy in poverty, but leading or

driving them out of it. In my youth I traveled much, and I observed in different

countries, that the more public provisions were made for the poor, the less they

provided for themselves, and of course became poorer. And, on the contrary, the less

was done for them, the more they did for themselves, and became richer." --Benjamin

Franklin

320 Welfare "We have the right, as individuals, to give away as much of our own money as we 4 1870 Au

please in charity; but as members of Congress we have no right to appropriate a

dollar of the public money." --Davy Crockett

340 Humor "I don't think you can make a lawyer honest by an act of legislature. You've got to work 4 1950 Au

on his conscience. And his lack of conscience is what makes him a lawyer." --Will

Rogers

340 Justice "...[I]f the republic is the weal of the people, and there is no people if it be not 4 300 Mi

associated by a common acknowledgement of right, and if there is no right where

there is no justice, then most certainly it follows that there is no republic where there is

no justice." --St. Augustine

340 Justice "It is not honorable to take mere legal advantage, when it happens to be contrary to 4 1790 Au

justice." --Thomas Jefferson

340 Justice "Injustice is relatively easy to bear; it is justice that hurts." --Henry Louis Mencken 4



340 Law "Evil law is no law at all." --St. Augustine 4 300 Mi

340 Legalities "Wrong must not win by technicalities." --Aeschylus 4 -500 Mg

340 Limits "Law alone cannot make men see right." --John F. Kennedy 4 1965 Au

340 Mercy "There is mercy which is weakness, and even treason against the common good." -- 4 1850 Ne

George Eliot

340 Moral "The fundamental basis of this nation's laws was given to Moses on the Mount. The 4 1950 Au

fundamental basis of our Bill of Rights comes from the teachings...of Isaiah and St.

Paul. I don't think we emphasize that enough these days." --Harry Truman



340 Paradox "There is nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries than an 4

agreement." --E. B. White

340 Punish "Let the punishment match the offense." --Marcus Tullius Cicero 4 100 Mi

350 Military "How could a readiness for war in time of peace be safely prohibited, unless we could 4 1800 Au

prohibit, in like manner, the preparations and establishments of every hostile nation?" -

-James Madison

350 Military "Diplomacy without arms is like music without instruments." --Frederick the Great 4 1880 Ng



370 Values I am much afraid that schools will prove to be the great gates of hell unless they 4 1550 Ng

diligently labor in explaining the Holy Scriptures, engraving them in the hearts of

youth." --Martin Luther

900 Timeless "All my best thoughts were stolen by the ancients." --Ralph Waldo Emerson 4 1860 Au

910 Destiny "Measured by the standards of men of their time, ... [the Pilgrims] were the humble of 4 1920 Au

the earth. Measured by later accomplishments, they were the mighty. In appearance

weak and persecuted they came -- rejected, despised -- an insignificant band; in

reality strong and independent, a mighty host of whom the world was not worthy,

destined to free mankind." --Calvin Coolidge

910 Founders "Do you recollect the pensive and awful silence which pervaded the House when we 4 1780 Au

were called up, one after another, to the table of the President of Congress [John

Hancock] to subscribe what was believed by many at that time to be our own death

warrants?" --Benjamin Rush

910 Founders "There! His Majesty can now read my name without glasses. And he can double the 4 1780 Au

reward on my head!" --John Hancock

910 Founders "Our cause is noble; it is the cause of mankind!" --George Washington 4 1780 Au

910 Future "[T]he flames kindled on the 4 of July 1776, have spread over too much of the globe to 4 1780 Au

be extinguished by the feeble engines of despotism; on the contrary, they will

consume these engines and all who work them. ... The Declaration of Independence

... [is the] declaratory charter of our rights, and the rights of man." --Thomas Jefferson









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910 Purpose "We began as a small, weak republic. But we survived. Our example inspired others, 4 1980 Au

imperfectly at times, but it inspired them nevertheless. This constitutional republic,

conceived in liberty and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal,

prospered and grew strong. To this day, America is still the abiding alternative to

tyranny. That is our purpose in the world -- nothing more and nothing less. To carry

out that purpose, our fundamental aim in foreign policy must be to ensure our own

survival and to protect those others who share our values. Under no circumstances

should we have any illusions about the intentions of those who are enemies of

freedom." --Ronald Reagan





910 Spirit "The quality of American life must keep pace with the quantity of American goods. 4 1965 Au

This country cannot afford to be materially rich and spiritually poor." --John F. Kennedy



100 Human "Man is the only animal who causes pain to others with no other object than wanting to 3 Ng

do so." --Arthur Schopenhauer

100 Suffer "Contemplate the mangled bodies of your countrymen, and then say, 'What should be 3 1800 Au

the reward of such sacrifices?' " --Samuel Adams

100 Value "Tyranny, like Hell, is not easily conquered. Yet we have this consolation with us, that 3 1770 Au

the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph." --Thomas Paine



160 Optimism "Ninety-nine percent of all failures come from people who have the habit of making 3 1860 Au

excuses." --George Washington Carver

160 Thankful "We have every kind of week in the world; there's Apple Week; Don't Blame Your 3 1920 Au

Congressman Week; Do Your Christmas Shopping Early Week. Let's add one

sensible one to 'em all: Remember Our Heroes Week. You would be surprised how

many we got that have been forgotten." --Will Rogers

180 Adversity "In times of stress, be bold and valiant." --Horace 3 200 Mi

180 Confidence "It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of 3 1920 Ne

that, to break a man's spirit is devil's work." --George Bernard Shaw



180 Patience "Endurance is nobler than strength and patience than beauty." --John Ruskin 3 Au

180 Persist "Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road 3 1940 Ne

may be; for without victory there is no survival." --Sir Winston Churchill

290 Redeem "The dragon that hid the moon is gone,/ The bloodsucker has vanished into the 3 1300 e

abyss./ Let me taste this day like the ripest of dates,/ And come tomorrow to talk about

the days to come." --Jahiz, an ancient Arab poet

310 Adversity "There is no working middle course in wartime." --Sir Winston Churchill 3 1940 Ne

310 Effort "Energy in the executive is a leading character in the definition of good government. It 3 1790 Au

is essential to the protection of the community against foreign attacks; it is not less

essential to the steady administration of the laws; to the protection of property against

those irregular and high-handed combinations which sometimes interrupt the ordinary

course of justice; to the security of liberty against the enterprises and assaults of

ambition, of faction, and of anarchy." --Alexander Hamilton



320 Congress "Don't people know that they don't have to heckle the president of the United States? 3 1965 Au

That's what Congress is for." --Bob Hope

320 Corrupt "This country has nothing to fear from the crooked man who fails. We put him in jail. It 3 1910 Au

is the crooked man who succeeds who is a threat to this country." --Theodore

Roosevelt

320 Corrupt "Political language -- and with variations this is true of all political parties, from 3 1920 Ne

Conservatives to Anarchists -- is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder

respectable." --George Orwell

320 Corrupt "There is no nation so poor that it cannot afford free speech, but there are few elites 3 1980 Au

which will put up with the bother of it." --Daniel P. Moynihan

320 Corrupt "Timid and interested politicians think much more about the security of their seats than 3

about the security of their country." --Lord Macaulay

320 Foreign "But if we are to be told by a foreign power...what we shall do, and what we shall not 3 1780 Au

do, we have independence yet to seek, and have contended hitherto for very little." --

George Washington

320 Foreign "A universal peace, it is to be feared, is in the catalogue of events, which will never 3 1800 Au

exist but in the imaginations of visionary philosophers, or in the breasts of benevolent

enthusiasts." --James Madison

320 Foreign "Let us speak courteously, deal fairly, and keep ourselves armed and ready." -- 3 1910 Au

Theodore Roosevelt

320 Foreign "Power and diplomacy work together." --George Shultz 3 1980 Au

320 Forms "...[D]emocracy is the worst form of government except all those others that have 3 1940 Ne

been tried from time to time." --Winston Churchill





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320 Humor "Most people and actors appearing on the stage have some writers to write their 3 1920 Au

material -- but I don't do that. Congress is good enough for me. They have been

writing my material for years and I am not ashamed of the material I have had. I am

going to stick to them." --Will Rogers

320 Humor "Well, the election campaign in the country is picking up speed. The voters are 3 1960 Au

yawning faster. ... All the candidates are talking about health care now. Don't they

realize that it's their campaign speeches that make us sick?" --Bob Hope



320 Involve "The tumult of the people is very properly compared to the raging of the sea. When 3 1810 Au

the passions of a multitude become headstrong, they generally will have their

course...." --Samuel Adams

320 Liberty "There is no greater service that we can render the oppressed of the earth than to 3 1920 Au

maintain inviolate the freedom of our own citizens." --Calvin Coolidge

320 Parties "He serves his party best who serves his country best." --Rutherford B. Hayes 3 1880 Au

320 Parties "Let us not seek the Republican answer or the Democratic answer, but the right 3 1960 Au

answer." --John F. Kennedy

320 Patriot "Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the 3 1910 Au

president...." --Theodore Roosevelt

320 Power "Our peculiar security is in the possession of a written Constitution. Let us not make it 3 1790 Au

a blank paper by construction." --Thomas Jefferson

320 Power "Authority does not prove truth. ...Majority does not prove truth. The majority can and 3

often has been dead wrong. That's why you cannot determine either the truth or the

right or wrong of anything with a poll. You can only tabulate people's opinions. Beware

of propaganda." --Charley Reese

320 Virtue "A vote is like a rifle: its usefulness depends upon the character of the user." -- 3 1910 Au

Theodore Roosevelt

320 Virtue "Clearly, a civilization that feels guilty for everything it is and does will lack the energy 3 Nf

and conviction to defend itself." --Jean Francois Revel

320 Virtue "Nothing so strongly impels a man to regard the interest of his constituents, as the 3 Au

certainty of returning to the general mass of the people, from whence he was taken,

where he must participate in their burdens." --George Mason

340 Lawyers "Lawyers are the only persons for whom ignorance of the law is not punished." -- 3

Jeremy Bentham

340 Lawyers "It was so cold in Montana that the lawyers had their hands in their own pockets." -- 3

David Crombie

370 Character "If we want our children to possess the traits of character we most admire, we need to 3 1990 Au

teach them what those traits are and why they deserve both admiration and

allegiance. Children must learn to identify the forms and content of those traits." --

William J. Bennett

370 Govern History will also give Occasion to expatiate on the Advantage of Civil Orders and 3 1800 Au

Constitutions, how Men and their Properties are protected by joining in Societies and

establishing Government; their Industry encouraged and rewarded, Arts invented, and

Life made more comfortable: The Advantages of Liberty, Mischiefs of Licentiousness,

Benefits arising from good Laws and a due Execution of Justice, &c. Thus may the

first Principles of sound Politicks be fix'd in the Minds of Youth." --Benjamin Franklin



910 constitution "This Constitution...shall be the supreme Law of the Land; ...Laws...to the Contrary 3 1790 Au

notwithstanding... Legislatures, and all executive and judicial Officers...shall be bound

by Oath...to support this Constitution...." --U.S. Constitution ++ "The enumeration in

the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others

retained by the people." --9th Amendment to the United States Constitution. ++ "The

powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to

the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people." --10th

Amendment to the United States Constitution



910 Creed "Ours is not the creed of the weakling and the coward; ours is the gospel of hope and 3 1910 Au

triumphant endeavor." --Theodore Roosevelt

910 Foreign "The French couldn't hate us any more unless we helped 'em out in another war." -- 3 1950 Au

Will Rogers

910 Founders "It ought to be commemorated, as the Day of Deliverance by solemn Acts of Devotion 3 1780 Au

to God Almighty. ... I am well aware of the Toil and Blood and Treasure, that it will cost

Us to maintain this Declaration, and support and defend these States. Yet through all

the Gloom I can see the Rays of ravishing Light and Glory. I can see that the End is

more than worth all the Means. And that Posterity will tryumph in that Days

Transaction, even altho We should rue it, which I trust in God We shall not." --John

Adams









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910 History "Independence Forever." --John Adams toast July 4, 1826, the 50th Anniversary of the 3 1820 Au

signing of the Declaration of Independence -- the day both he and Thomas Jefferson

died.

910 Principles "On the distinctive principles of the Government ...of the U. States, the best guides are 3 1780 Au

to be found in...The Declaration of Independence, as the fundamental Act of Union of

these States." --James Madison

910 Values "Americanism is a question of principles, of idealism, of character: it is not a matter of 3 1910 Au

birthplace or creed or line of descent." --Theodore Roosevelt

910 "On my arrival in the United States, I was struck by the degree of ability among the 3 1870 Nf

governed and the lack of it among the governing." --Alexis de Tocqueville



180 Control "From fanaticism to barbarism is only one step." --Denis Diderot

230 "...[But as for me and my house, we will serve the Lord." (Joshua 24:15)









As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as far as

they are certain, they do not refer to reality. -- Albert Einstein

Before God we are all equally wise - and equally foolish. -- Albert Einstein

Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still

greater. -- Albert Einstein

Ethical axioms are found and tested not very differently from the axioms of science.

Truth is what stands the test of experience. -- Albert Einstein

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be

fought with sticks and stones. -- Albert Einstein

I never think of the future - it comes soon enough. -- Albert Einstein

Imagination is more important than knowledge... -- Albert Einstein

Mathematics is the queen of the sciences. -- -- Albert Einstein

Laws alone can not secure freedom of expression; in order that every man present his

views without penalty there must be spirit of tolerance in the entire population. --

Albert Einstein

My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who

reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble

mind. -- Albert Einstein

Reading, after a certain age, diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any

man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of

thinking. -- Albert Einstein

The ideals which have lighted my way, and time after time have given me new

courage to face life cheerfully, have been Kindness, Beauty, and Truth. The trite

subjects of human efforts, possessions, outward success, luxury have always seemed

to me contemptible. -- Albert Einstein

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 tries merely to

comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. -- Albert

Einstein

The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all

true art and science. -- Albert Einstein

The most incomprehensible thing about the world is that it is at all comprehensible. --

Albert Einstein

The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made

more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. -- Albert Einstein

The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein

To punish me for my contempt for authority, fate made me an authority myself. --

Albert Einstein

Truth is what stands the test of experience. -- Albert Einstein

Try not to become a man of success but rather to become a man of value. -- Albert

Einstein

We should take care not to make the intellect our god; it has, of course, powerful

muscles, but no personality. -- Albert Einstein

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind. -- Albert Einstein,

"Science, Philosophy and Religion: a Symposium", 1941

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor

in freedom. -- Albert Einstein, 'Out of My Later Years,' 1950

It is the duty of every citizen according to his best capacities to give validity to his

convictions in political affairs. -- Albert Einstein, 'Treasury for the Free World,' 1946





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Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be

counted. -- Albert Einstein (attributed)

At any rate, I am convinced that He [God] does not play dice. -- Albert Einstein, In a

letter to Max Born, 1926

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. -- Plato

(427 BC - 347 BC), The Republic

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature,

compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire. -- Aristotle

All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind. – Aristotle

Dignity consists not in possessing honors, but in the consciousness that we deserve

them. -- Aristotle

Education is the best provision for the journey to old age. -- Aristotle

Happiness depends upon ourselves. – Aristotle

Humor is the only test of gravity, and gravity of humor; for a subject which will not bear

raillery is suspicious, and a jest which will not bear serious examination is false wit. –

Aristotle

It is in justice that the ordering of society is centered. – Aristotle

It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting

it. -- Aristotle

Law is mind without reason. -- Aristotle

Man perfected by society is the best of all animals; he is the most terrible of all when

he lives without law, and without justice. -- Aristotle

Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting a particular way...you become

just by performing just actions, temperate by performing temperate actions, brave by

performing brave actions. -- Aristotle

Pleasure in the job puts perfection in the work. – Aristotle

Poverty is the parent of revolution and crime. -- Aristotle

The gods too are fond of a joke. – Aristotle

The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law. – Aristotle

[Equality]

To give a satisfactory decision as to the truth it is necessary to be rather an arbitrator

than a party to the dispute. -- Aristotle

To perceive is to suffer. -- Aristotle

Young people are in a condition like permanent intoxication, because youth is sweet

and they are growing. -- Aristotle, 'Nicomachean Ethics': [Age]

Misfortune shows those who are not really friends. -- Aristotle, Eudemian Ethics

Friendship]

Hope is a waking dream. -- Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent

Philosophers

I have gained this by philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do

only from fear of the law. -- Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent

Philosophers [Laws]

Liars when they speak the truth are not believed. -- Aristotle, from Diogenes Laertius,

Lives of Eminent Philosophers [Lies]

I count him braver who overcomes his desires than him who overcomes his enemies. -

- Aristotle, In Stobaeus, Florilegium

All men by nature desire knowledge. -- Aristotle, Metaphysics [Knowledge]

It is possible to fail in many ways...while to succeed is possible only in one way. --

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics [Success] [Failure]

Piety requires us to honor truth above our friends. -- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics



To enjoy the things we ought and to hate the things we ought has the greatest bearing

on excellence of character. -- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

We make war that we may live in peace. -- Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

Without friends no one would choose to live, though he had all other goods. --

Aristotle, Nichomachean Ethics

In all things of nature there is something of the marvelous. -- Aristotle, Parts of Animals



Time crumbles things; everything grows old under the power of Time and is forgotten

through the lapse of Time. -- Aristotle, Physics

A state is not a mere society, having a common place, established for the prevention

of mutual crime and for the sake of exchange...Political society exists for the sake of

noble actions, and not of mere companionship. -- Aristotle, Politics



Again, men in general desire the good, and not merely what their fathers had. --

Aristotle, Politics





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Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered. --

Aristotle, Politics

He who is unable to live in society, or who has no need because he is sufficient for

himself, must be either a beast or a god. -- Aristotle, Politics

If liberty and equality, as is thought by some are chiefly to be found in democracy, they

will be best attained when all persons alike share in the government to the utmost. --

Aristotle, Politics

It is the nature of desire not to be satisfied, and most men live only for the gratification

of it. -- Aristotle, Politics

Law is order, and good law is good order. -- Aristotle, Politics

Nature does nothing uselessly. -- Aristotle, Politics

The basis of a democratic state is liberty.

They should rule who are able to rule best. -- Aristotle, Politics

Well begun is half done. -- Aristotle, Politics (quoting a proverb)

A likely impossibility is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility. -- Aristotle,

Rhetoric

A whole is that which has beginning, middle and end. -- Aristotle, Rhetoric

Evil draws men together. -- Aristotle, Rhetoric

It is simplicity that makes the uneducated more effective than the educated when

addressing popular audiences. -- Aristotle, Rhetoric

A fanatic is one who can't change his mind and won't change the subject. -- Sir

Winston Churchill

Although prepared for martyrdom, I preferred that it be postponed. -- Sir Winston

Churchill

A banker is a fellow who lends you his umbrella when the sun is shining, but wants it

back the minute it begins to rain. -- Mark Twain

A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes. -- Mark

Twain

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval. -- Mark Twain

Always acknowledge a fault. This will throw those in authority off their guard and give

you an opportunity to commit more. -- Mark Twain

Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest. -- Mark Twain



An Englishman is a person who does things because they have been done before. An

American is a person who does things because they haven't been done before. --

Mark Twain

Clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society. -- Mark

Twain

Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear. -- Mark Twain



Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much. -- Mark Twain

Don't go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It

was here first. -- Mark Twain

Don't part with your illusions. When they are gone you may still exist, but you have

ceased to live. -- Mark Twain

Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities. Truth isn't. -- Mark Twain

Get your facts first, and then you can distort them as much as you please. -- Mark

Twain

Grief can take care of itself, but to get the full value of a joy you must have somebody

to divide it with. -- Mark Twain

Habit is habit and not to be flung out of the window by any man, but coaxed

downstairs a step at a time. -- Mark Twain

Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it. -- Mark Twain

Humor is the great thing, the saving thing. The minute it crops up, all our irritations

and resentments slip away and a sunny spirit takes their place. -- Mark Twain



I am opposed to millionaires, but it would be dangerous to offer me the position. --

Mark Twain

I didn't attend the funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying that I approved of it. -- Mark

Twain

I have never let my schooling interfere with my education. -- Mark Twain

If you pick up a starving dog and make him prosperous, he will not bite you. This is the

principal difference between a dog and a man. -- Mark Twain

If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything. -- Mark Twain

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in

making those idiots understand their language. -- Mark Twain





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In the first place, God made idiots. That was for practice. Then he made school

boards. -- Mark Twain

It could probably be shown by facts and figures that there is no distinctly American

criminal class except Congress. -- Mark Twain

It is better to deserve honors and not have them than to have them and not to deserve

them. -- Mark Twain

It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world and moral

courage so rare. -- Mark Twain

It usually takes more than three weeks to prepare a good impromptu speech. -- Mark

Twain

Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. -- Mark

Twain

My mother had a great deal of trouble with me, but I think she enjoyed it. -- Mark Twain



Never put off until tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow. -- Mark Twain



Often it does seem a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat. -- Mark Twain



Part of the secret of success in life is to eat what you like and let the food fight it out

inside. -- Mark Twain

Suppose you were an idiot and suppose you were a member of Congress. But I

repeat myself. -- Mark Twain

The best way to cheer yourself is to try to cheer someone else up. -- Mark Twain



The human race has one really effective weapon, and that is laughter. -- Mark Twain



The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't

read them. -- Mark Twain

The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the

views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them. -- Mark Twain



The worst loneliness is not to be comfortable with yourself. -- Mark Twain

There are people who strictly deprive themselves of each and every eatable,

drinkable, and smokable which has in any way acquired a shady reputation. They pay

this price for health. And health is all they get for it. How strange it is. It is like paying

out your whole fortune for a cow that has gone dry. -- Mark Twain



Time cools, time clarifies; no mood can be maintained quite unaltered through the

course of hours. -- Mark Twain

Truth is more of a stranger than fiction. -- Mark Twain

Water, taken in moderation, cannot hurt anybody. -- Mark Twain

We have a criminal jury system which is superior to any in the world; and its efficiency

is only marred by the difficulty of finding twelve men every day who don't know

anything and can't read. -- Mark Twain

When in doubt, tell the truth. -- Mark Twain

When you cannot get a compliment any other way pay yourself one. -- Mark Twain



Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. -- Mark

Twain

You cannot depend on your eyes when your imagination is out of focus. -- Mark Twain



I cannot call to mind a single instance where I have ever been irreverent, except

toward the things which were sacred to other people. -- Mark Twain, "Is Shakespeare

Dead?"

He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in

order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing

difficult to obtain. -- Mark Twain, "The Adventures of Tom Sawyer"



Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising. -- Mark

Twain, A Connecticult Yankee in King Arthur's Court

The history of our race, and each individual's experience, are sown thick with

evidence that a truth is not hard to kill and that a lie told well is immortal. -- Mark

Twain, Advice to Youth

A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. --

Mark Twain, Following the Equator

The universal brotherhood of man is our most precious possession, what there is of it.

-- Mark Twain, Following the Equator





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By trying we can easily learn to endure adversity. Another man's, I mean. -- Mark

Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

It takes your enemy and your friend, working together, to hurt you: the one to slander

you, and the other to get the news to you. -- Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)



Man is the Only Animal that Blushes. Or needs to. -- Mark Twain, Following the

Equator (1897)

There are several good protections against temptations, but the surest is cowardice. --

Mark Twain, Following the Equator (1897)

The rule is perfect: in all matters of opinion our adversaries are insane. -- Mark Twain,

in Christian Science

All you need in this life is ignorance and confidence; then success is sure. -- Mark

Twain, Letter to Mrs Foote, Dec. 2, 1887

Sane and intelligent human beings are like all other human beings, and carefully and

cautiously and diligently conceal their private real opinions from the world and give out

fictitious ones in their stead for general consumption. --Mark Twain, Mark Twain In

Eruption

Familiarity breeds contempt - and children. --Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

Good breeding consists of concealing how much we think of ourselves and how little

we think of the other person. --Mark Twain, Notebooks (1935)

An enemy can partly ruin a man, but it takes a good-natured injudicious friend to

complete the thing and make it perfect. -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

The holy passion of Friendship is of so sweet and steady and loyal and enduring a

nature that it will last through a whole lifetime, if not asked to lend money. -- Mark

Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson

Training is everything. The peach was once a bitter almond; cauliflower is nothing but

cabbage with a college education. -- Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson (1894)



Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to

someone else. -- Mark Twain, quoted in Mark Twain and I, Opie Read, 1940

A classic is something that everybody wants to have read and nobody wants to read. --

Mark Twain, Speech in New York, Nov. 20, 1900

How little a thing can make us happy when we feel that we have earned it. -- Mark

Twain, The Diaries of Adam and Eve

Laws are sand, customs are rock. Laws can be evaded and punishment escaped but

an openly transgressed custom brings sure punishment. -- Mark Twain, The Gorky

Incident

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts. -- Mark

Twain, Wearing White Clothes speech, 1907

The fact that man knows right from wrong proves his intellectual superiority to other

creatures; but the fact that he can do wrong proves his moral inferiority to any creature

that cannot. -- Mark Twain, What Is Man? (1906)

Seriousness is the only refuge of the shallow. -- Oscar Wilde

The only thing to do with good advice is pass it on. It is never any use to oneself. --

Oscar Wilde

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives

a mimicry, their passions a quotation. -- Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, 1905



I can resist anything but temptation. -- Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892,

Act I

Experience is the name everyone gives to their mistakes. -- Oscar Wilde, Lady

Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.--

Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan, 1892, Act III

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when

he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde, The

Critic as Artist, part 2, 1891

America is the only country that went from barbarism to decadence without civilization

in between. -- Oscar Wilde

Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. -- Oscar Wilde

I am not young enough to know everything. -- Oscar Wilde

As long as you derive inner help and comfort from anything, keep it. -- Mahatma

Gandhi

Freedom is not worth having if it does not include the freedom to make mistakes. --

Mahatma Gandhi

Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony. --

Mahatma Gandhi





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Honest differences are often a healthy sign of progress. -- Mahatma Gandhi

In the attitude of silence the soul finds the path in an clearer light, and what is elusive

and deceptive resolves itself into crystal clearness. Our life is a long and arduous

quest after Truth. -- Mahatma Gandhi

Indolence is a delightful but distressing state; we must be doing something to be

happy. -- Mahatma Gandhi

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the

strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. -- Mahatma Gandhi

One needs to be slow to form convictions, but once formed they must be defended

against the heaviest odds. -- Mahatma Gandhi

The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong. -- Mahatma

Gandhi

Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. -- Mahatma

Gandhi

You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean

are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty. -- Mahatma Gandhi

An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind. -- Mahatma Gandhi (attributed)



Be not ashamed of mistakes and thus make them crimes. -- Confucius 500 BC



Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it. -- Confucius

Forget injuries, never forget kindnesses. – Confucius

He who will not economize will have to agonize. -- Confucius

I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand. -- Confucius

Ignorance is the night of the mind, but a night without moon and star. - Confucius



It does not matter how slowly you go so long as you do not stop. -- Confucius

Men's natures are alike, it is their habits that carry them far apart. -- Confucius

Respect yourself and others will respect you. -- Confucius

Study the past if you would define the future. -- Confucius

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come.

When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is

orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not

endangered, and his States and all their clans are preserved. -- Confucius



To see what is right, and not to do it, is want of courage or of principle. -- Confucius



What the superior man seeks is in himself; what the small man seeks is in others. --

Confucius

When anger rises, think of the consequences. – Confucius

When we see men of a contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine

ourselves. -- Confucius

Wheresoever you go, go with all your heart. -- Confucius

They must often change who would be constant in happiness or wisdom. -- Confucius,

Analects

Fine words and an insinuating appearance are seldom associated with true virtue. --

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

He who exercises government by means of his virtue may be compared to the north

polar star, which keeps its place and all the stars turn towards it. -- Confucius, The

Confucian Analects

He who speaks without modesty will find it difficult to make his words good. --

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Hold faithfulness and sincerity as first principles. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects



I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of

antiquity, and earnest in seeking it there. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects



I have not seen a person who loved virtue, or one who hated what was not virtuous.

He who loved virtue would esteem nothing above it. -- Confucius, The Confucian

Analects

If a man takes no thought about what is distant, he will find sorrow near at hand. --

Confucius, The Confucian Analects









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If a man withdraws his mind from the love of beauty, and applies it as sincerely to the

love of the virtuous; if, in serving his parents, he can exert his utmost strength; if, in

serving his prince, he can devote his life; if in his intercourse with his friends, his

words are sincere - although men say that he has not learned, I will certainly say that

he has. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects



Is virtue a thing remote? I wish to be virtuous, and lo! Virtue is at hand. -- Confucius,

The Confucian Analects

Learning without thought is labor lost; thought without learning is perilous. --

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Recompense injury with justice, and recompense kindness with kindness. --

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The cautious seldom err. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue. -- Confucius,

The Confucian Analects

The man of virtue makes the difficulty to be overcome his first business, and success

only a subsequent consideration. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects



The man who in view of gain thinks of righteousness; who in the view of danger is

prepared to give up his life; and who does not forget an old agreement however far

back it extends - such a man may be reckoned a complete man. -- Confucius, The

Confucian Analects

The people may be made to follow a path of action, but they may not be made to

understand it. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The scholar who cherishes the love of comfort is not fit to be deemed a scholar. --

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The superior man cannot be known in little matters, but he may be entrusted with

great concerns. The small man may not be entrusted with great concerns, but he may

be known in little matters. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects



The superior man is modest in his speech, but exceeds in his actions. -- Confucius,

The Confucian Analects

The superior man is satisfied and composed; the mean man is always full of distress. -

- Confucius, The Confucian Analects

The superior man...does not set his mind either for anything, or against anything; what

is right he will follow. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects

There are three things which the superior man guards against. In youth...lust. When

he is strong...quarrelsomeness. When he is old...covetousness. -- Confucius, The

Confucian Analects

Things that are done, it is needless to speak about...things that are past, it is needless

to blame. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects

To be able to practice five things everywhere under heaven constitutes perfect

virtue...[They are] gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness, and kindness. --

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

To go beyond is as wrong as to fall short. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects



Virtue is more to man than either water or fire. I have seen men die from treading on

water and fire, but I have never seen a man die from treading the course of virtue. --

Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Virtue is not left to stand alone. He who practices it will have neighbors. -- Confucius,

The Confucian Analects

What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. -- Confucius, The

Confucian Analects

When a man's knowledge is sufficient to attain, and his virtue is not sufficient to

enable him to hold, whatever he may have gained, he will lose again. -- Confucius,

The Confucian Analects

When we see men of worth, we should think of equaling them; when we see men of a

contrary character, we should turn inwards and examine ourselves. -- Confucius, The

Confucian Analects

When you know a thing, to hold that you know it; and when you do not know a thing,

to allow that you do not know it - this is knowledge. -- Confucius, The Confucian

Analects

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bended arm for a pillow - I have

still joy in the midst of these things. Riches and honors acquired by unrighteousness

are to me as a floating cloud. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects



Without an acquaintance with the rules of propriety, it is impossible for the character

to be established. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects



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[The superior man] acts before he speaks, and afterwards speaks according to his

actions. -- Confucius, The Confucian Analects

Be civil to all; sociable to many; familiar with few; friend to one; enemy to none. --

Benjamin Franklin

Beware of the young doctor and the old barber. -- Benjamin Franklin

Do not anticipate trouble, or worry about what may never happen. Keep in the

sunlight. -- Benjamin Franklin

Drive thy business or it will drive thee. -- Benjamin Franklin

Educate your children to self-control, to the habit of holding passion and prejudice and

evil tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much to

abolish misery from their future and crimes from society. -- Benjamin Franklin



Employ thy time well, if thou meanest to get leisure. -- Benjamin Franklin

He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals. -- Benjamin Franklin

He that is of the opinion money will do everything may well be suspected of doing

everything for money. -- Benjamin Franklin

He that lives upon hope will die fasting. -- Benjamin Franklin

Hide not your talents, they for use were made. What's a sun-dial in the shade? --

Benjamin Franklin

If you know how to spend less than you get, you have the philosopher's stone. --

Benjamin Franklin

If you would be wealthy, think of saving as well as getting. -- Benjamin Franklin



If you would persuade, you must appeal to interest rather than intellect. -- Benjamin

Franklin

If you wouldst live long, live well, for folly and wickedness shorten life. -- Benjamin

Franklin

If your head is wax, don't walk in the sun. -- Benjamin Franklin

Never leave that till tomorrow which you can do today. -- Benjamin Franklin

Remember not only to say the right thing in the right place, but far more difficult still, to

leave unsaid the wrong thing at the tempting moment. -- Benjamin Franklin



Search others for their virtues, thyself for thy vices. -- Benjamin Franklin

There is no kind of dishonesty into which otherwise good people more easily and

frequently fall than that of defrauding the government. -- Benjamin Franklin



Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead. -- Benjamin Franklin

Well done is better than well said. -- Benjamin Franklin

Who is rich? He that is content. Who is that? Nobody. -- Benjamin Franklin

You may delay, but time will not. -- Benjamin Franklin

Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that's the stuff life is made of. --

Benjamin Franklin, 'Poor Richard's Almanack,' June 1746

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve

neither liberty nor safety. -- Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania,

1759

But in this world nothing can be said to be certain, except death and taxes. --

Benjamin Franklin, Letter to Jean Baptiste Le Roy (1789)

Fish and visitors smell in three days. -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack,

1736

To lengthen thy life, lessen thy meals. -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's Almanack,

1737

Wish not so much to live long as to live well. -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard's

Almanack, 1738

Creditors have better memories than debtors. -- Benjamin Franklin, Poor Richard‘s

Almanac (1758)

Aesop (600 BC)

It is easy to be brave from a safe distance. -- Aesop

It is with our passions, as it is with fire and water, they are good servants but bad

masters. – Aesop

Never trust the advice of a man in difficulties. – Aesop

Persuasion is often more effectual than force. -- Aesop

The smaller the mind the greater the conceit. – Aesop

We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office. -- Aesop

What a splendid head, yet no brain. -- Aesop

The gods help them that help themselves. -- Aesop, Hercules and the Wagoner







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Be content with your lot; one cannot be first in everything. -- Aesop, Juno and the

Peacock

It is thrifty to prepare today for the wants of tomorrow. -- Aesop, The Ant and the

Grasshopper

Union gives strength. -- Aesop, The Bundle of Sticks

The shaft of the arrow had been feathered with one of the eagle's own plumes. We

often give our enemies the means of our own destruction. -- Aesop, The Eagle and

the Arrow

Familiarity breed contempt. -- Aesop, The Fox and the Lion

Self-conceit may lead to self-destruction. -- Aesop, The Frog and the Ox

Thinking to get at once all the gold the goose could give, he killed it and opened it only

to find - nothing. -- Aesop, The Goose with the Golden Eggs

Slow and steady wins the race. -- Aesop, The Hare and the Tortoise

No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted. -- Aesop, The Lion and the

Mouse

I will have nought to do with a man who can blow hot and cold with the same breath. --

Aesop, The Man and the Satyr

Do not count your chickens before they are hatched. -- Aesop, The Milkmaid and Her

Pail

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified. -- Aesop, The Old Man and

Death

A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety. -- Aesop, The

Town Mouse and the Country Mouse

Any excuse will serve a tyrant. -- Aesop, The Wolf and the Lamb

Appearances often are deceiving. -- Aesop, The Wolf in Sheep's Clothing

By far the best proof is experience. -- Sir Francis Bacon 1600

Choose the life that is most useful, and habit will make it the most agreeable. -- Sir

Francis Bacon

Discretion in speech is more than eloquence. -- Sir Francis Bacon

He of whom many are afraid ought to fear many. -- Sir Francis Bacon

If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be content to

begin with doubts he shall end in certainties. -- Sir Francis Bacon

In taking revenge, a man is but even with his enemy; but in passing it over, he is

superior. -- Sir Francis Bacon

Natural abilities are like natural plants; they need pruning by study. -- Sir Francis

Bacon

Read not to contradict and confute, not to believe and take for granted, not to find talk

and discourse, but to weigh and consider. -- Sir Francis Bacon

Reading makes a full man, conference a ready man, and writing an exact man. -- Sir

Francis Bacon

Seek ye first the good things of the mind, and the rest will either be supplied or its loss

will not be felt. -- Sir Francis Bacon

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed

and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but

not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention. -- Sir

Francis Bacon

The worst solitude is to be destitute of sincere friendship. -- Sir Francis Bacon

They are ill discoverers that think there is no land, when they can see nothing but sea.

-- Sir Francis Bacon

Knowledge is power. (Ipsa Scientia Potestas Est) -- Sir Francis Bacon, , Religious

Meditations, Of Heresies, 1597

In charity there is no excess. -- Sir Francis Bacon, Of Goodness, and Goodness of

Nature (1625)

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A happy life consists in tranquillity of mind. -- Cicero 70 BC - Roman

A life of peace, purity, and refinement leads to a calm and untroubled old age. --

Cicero

A mind without instruction can no more bear fruit than can a field, however fertile,

without cultivation. -- Cicero

Advice is judged by results, not by intentions. -- Cicero

All action is of the mind and the mirror of the mind is the face, its index the eyes. --

Cicero

Art is born of the observation and investigation of nature. -- Cicero

As the old proverb says "Like readily consorts with like." -- Cicero

Be sure that it is not you that is mortal, but only your body. For that man whom your

outward form reveals is not yourself; the spirit is the true self, not that physical figure

which and be pointed out by your finger. -- Cicero



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Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He

must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone else's traits

might suit him better. The more definitely his own a man's character is, the better it fits

him. -- Cicero

Force overcome by force. (Vi Victa Vis) -- Cicero

Freedom is a possession of inestimable value. -- Cicero

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. -- Cicero

He removes the greatest ornament of friendship, who takes away from it respect. --

Cicero

I will go further, and assert that nature without culture can often do more to deserve

praise than culture without nature. -- Cicero

If you aspire to the highest place, it is no disgrace to stop at the second, or even the

third, place. -- Cicero

In so far as the mind is stronger than the body, so are the ills contracted by the mind

more severe than those contracted by the body. -- Cicero

It is a great thing to know our vices. -- Cicero

It is a true saying that "One falsehood leads easily to another". -- Cicero

Let your desires be ruled by reason. (Appetitus Rationi Pareat) -- Cicero

Liberty is rendered even more precious by the recollection of servitude. -- Cicero



Live as brave men; and if fortune is adverse, front its blows with brave hearts. – Cicero



Men decide far more problems by hate, love, lust, rage, sorrow, joy, hope, fear,

illusion, or some other inward emotion, than by reality, authority, any legal standard,

judicial precedent, or statute. -- Cicero

Natural ability without education has more often attained to glory and virtue than

education without natural ability. – Cicero

Never go to excess, but let moderation be your guide. -- Cicero

No one can speak well, unless he thoroughly understands his subject. -- Cicero



Not to know what has been transacted in former times is to be always a child. If no

use is made of the labors of past ages, the world must remain always in the infancy of

knowledge. -- Cicero

Our span of life is brief, but is long enough for us to live well and honestly. -- Cicero



Our thoughts are free. -- Cicero

Reason should direct and appetite obey. -- Cicero

Strain every nerve to gain your point. -- Cicero

Such praise coming from so degraded a source, was degrading to me, its recipient. --

Cicero

The absolute good is not a matter of opinion but of nature. -- Cicero

The evil implanted in man by nature spreads so imperceptibly, when the habit of

wrong-doing is unchecked, that he himself can set no limit to his shamelessness. --

Cicero

The first duty of a man is the seeking after and the investigation of truth. -- Cicero



The man who backbites an absent friend, nay, who does not stand up for him when

another blames him, the man who angles for bursts of laughter and for the repute of a

wit, who can invent what he never saw, who cannot keep a secret - that man is black

at heart: mark and avoid him. -- Cicero

The name of peace is sweet, and the thing itself is beneficial, but there is a great

difference between peace and servitude. Peace is freedom in tranquillity, servitude is

the worst of all evils, to be resisted not only by war, but even by death.-- Cicero



The strictest law often causes the most serious wrong. – Cicero

The welfare of the people is the ultimate law. (Salus Populi Suprema Est Lex) – Cicero



The wise are instructed by reason; ordinary minds by experience; the stupid, by

necessity; and brutes by instinct. -- Cicero

There are some duties we owe even to those who have wronged us. There is, after

all, a limit to retribution and punishment. -- Cicero

There is no duty more obligatory than the repayment of kindness. – Cicero

To be content with what one has is the greatest and truest of riches. -- Cicero

To each his own. (Suum Cuique) -- Cicero

We are obliged to respect, defend and maintain the common bonds of union and

fellowship that exist among all members of the human race. -- Cicero

We do not destroy religion by destroying superstition. -- Cicero



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We must not say every mistake is a foolish one. -- Cicero

When you wish to instruct, be brief; that men's minds take in quickly what you say,

learn its lesson, and retain it faithfully. Every word that is unnecessary only pours over

the side of a brimming mind. -- Cicero

Where is there dignity unless there is honesty? -- Cicero

Gratitude is not only the greatest of virtues, but the parent of all others. -- Cicero, 'Pro

Plancio,' 54 B.C.

While there's life, there's hope. -- Cicero, Ad Atticum

The shifts of Fortune test the reliability of friends. -- Cicero, De Amicitia

There is nothing so ridiculous but some philosopher has said it. -- Cicero, De

Divinatione

Let the punishment match the offense. -- Cicero, De Legibus

The people's good is the highest law. -- Cicero, De Legibus

Friendship make prosperity more shining and lessens adversity by dividing and

sharing it. -- Cicero, On Friendship, 44 B.C.

Law stands mute in the midst of arms. -- Cicero, Pro Milone

History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time; it illumines reality, vitalizes

memory, provides guidance in daily life and brings us tidings of antiquity. -- Cicero,

Pro Publio Sestio

A precedent embalms a principle. -- Benjamin Disraeli 1850 England

As a general rule the most successful man in life is the man who has the best

information. -- Benjamin Disraeli

Cleanliness and order are not matters of instinct; they are matters of education, and

like most great things, you must cultivate a taste for them. -- Benjamin Disraeli



Great services are not canceled by one act or by one single error. -- Benjamin Disraeli



Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life. --

Benjamin Disraeli

I repeat...that all power is a trust; that we are accountable for its exercise; that from

the people, and for the people all springs, and all must exist. -- Benjamin Disraeli



It is knowledge that influences and equalizes the social condition of man; that gives to

all, however different their political position, passions which are in common, and

enjoyments which are universal. -- Benjamin Disraeli

My idea of an agreeable person is a person who agrees with me. -- Benjamin Disraeli



Never apologize for showing feeling. When you do so, you apologize for truth. --

Benjamin Disraeli

No government can be long secure without formidable opposition. -- Benjamin Disraeli



The best way to become acquainted with a subject is to write a book about it. --

Benjamin Disraeli

The difference of race is one of the reasons why I fear war may always exist; because

race implies difference, difference implies superiority, and superiority leads to

predominance. -- Benjamin Disraeli

The greatest good you can do for another is not just share your riches, but to reveal to

him his own. -- Benjamin Disraeli

The magic of first love is our ignorance that it can never end. -- Benjamin Disraeli



The more extensive a man's knowledge of what has been done, the greater will be his

power of knowing what to do. -- Benjamin Disraeli

The wisdom of the wise, and the experience of ages, may be preserved by quotation. -

- Benjamin Disraeli

When men are pure, laws are useless; when men are corrupt, laws are broken. --

Benjamin Disraeli

Change is inevitable. In a progressive country change is constant. -- Benjamin

Disraeli, Speech, Edinburgh (1867)

How much easier it is to be critical than to be correct. -- Benjamin Disraeli, speech,

January 24, 1860

To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge. -- Benjamin

Disraeli, Sybil, 1845

Do not consider painful what is good for you. -- Euripides

Short is the joy that guilty pleasure brings. -- Euripides

Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish. -- Euripides









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The best and safest thing is to keep a balance in your life, acknowledge the great

powers around us and in us. If you can do that, and live that way, you are really a wise

man. -- Euripides

Waste not fresh tears over old griefs. -- Euripides

A bad beginning makes a bad ending. -- Euripides, Aegeus

The company of just and righteous men is better than wealth and a rich estate. --

Euripides, Aegeus

Dishonor will not trouble me, once I am dead. -- Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

I have found power in the mysteries of thought, exaltation in the changing of the

Muses; I have been versed in the reasonings of men; but Fate is stronger than

anything I have known. -- Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

Never say that marriage has more of joy than pain. -- Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.



Time cancels young pain. -- Euripides, Alcestis, 438 B.C.

Man's best possession is a sympathetic wife. -- Euripides, Antigone

In case of dissension, never dare to judge till you've heard the other side. -- Euripides,

Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.

Leave no stone unturned. -- Euripides, Heraclidae, circa 428 B.C.

In this world second thoughts, it seems, are best. -- Euripides, Hippolytus, 428 B.C.



A coward turns away, but a brave man's choice is danger. -- Euripides, Iphigenia in

Tauris, circa 412 B.C.

There is no benefit in the gifts of a bad man. -- Euripides, Medea, 431 B.C.

Whoso neglects learning in his youth, Loses the past and is dead for the future. --

Euripides, Phrixus

Slight not what's near through aiming at what's far. -- Euripides, Rhesus, circa 435

B.C.

When good men die their goodness does not perish, But lives though they are gone.

As for the bad, All that was theirs dies and is buried with them. -- Euripides,

Temenidae

Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of

it, and then it will gradually yield to him. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 1800



Divide and rule, a sound motto. Unite and lead, a better one. -- Johann Wolfgang von

Goethe

Enjoy when you can, and endure when you must. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



How can you come to know yourself? Never by thinking, always by doing. Try to do

your duty, and you'll know right away what you amount to. -- Johann Wolfgang von

Goethe

If any man wish to write in a clear style, let him be first clear in his thoughts; and if any

would write in a noble style, let him first possess a noble soul. -- Johann Wolfgang

von Goethe

Just trust yourself, then you will know how to live. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe,

Faust

Do not bite at the bait of pleasure till you know there is no hook beneath it. -- Thomas

Jefferson

In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock. --

Thomas Jefferson

Never fear the want of business. A man who qualifies himself well for his calling,

never fails of employment. -- Thomas Jefferson

Never spend your money before you have it. -- Thomas Jefferson

Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself. -- Thomas Jefferson

Nothing gives one person so much advantage over another as to remain always cool

and unruffled under all circumstances. -- Thomas Jefferson

Say nothing of my religion. It is known to God and myself alone. Its evidence before

the world is to be sought in my life: if it has been honest and dutiful to society the

religion which has regulated it cannot be a bad one. -- Thomas Jefferson



Shake off all the fears of servile prejudices, under which weak minds are servilely

crouched. Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call on her tribunal for every fact, every

opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be

one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear. --

Thomas Jefferson

The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing

but newspapers. -- Thomas Jefferson







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We confide in our strength, without boasting of it; we respect that of others, without

fearing it. -- Thomas Jefferson

An honest man can feel no pleasure in the exercise of power over his fellow citizens. --

Thomas Jefferson, letter to John Melish, January 13, 1813

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it. -- Helen

Keller

Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experience of trial

and suffering can the soul be strengthened, ambition inspired, and success achieved. -

- Helen Keller

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -- Helen Keller

Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. Security does not exist in nature, nor do

the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long

run than exposure. -- Helen Keller

Many persons have a wrong idea of what constitutes true happiness. It is not attained

through self-gratification but through fidelity to a worthy purpose. -- Helen Keller



One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar. -- Helen Keller



People do not like to think. If one thinks, one must reach conclusions. Conclusions are

not always pleasant. -- Helen Keller

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything good in the

world. -- Helen Keller

The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched. They

must be felt within the heart. -- Helen Keller 1940

We could never learn to be brave and patient, if there were only joy in the world. --

Helen Keller

When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the

closed door that we do not see the one which has been opened for us. -- Helen Keller



The highest result of education is tolerance. -- Helen Keller, 'Optimism,' 1903

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the

worst of them all - the apathy of human beings. -- Helen Keller, My Religion, 1927



Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature.... Life is either a daring

adventure or nothing. -- Helen Keller, The Open Door (1957)

I submit that an individual who breaks a law that conscience tells him is unjust, and

who willingly accepts the penalty of imprisonment in order to arouse the conscience of

the community over its injustice, is in reality expressing the highest respect for the law.

-- Martin Luther King Jr. 1960

In the end, we will remember not the words of our enemies, but the silence of our

friends. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

Like an unchecked cancer, hate corrodes the personality and eats away its vital unity.

Hate destroys a man's sense of values and his objectivity. It causes him to describe

the beautiful as ugly and the ugly as beautiful, and to confuse the true with the false

and the false with the true. -- Martin Luther King Jr.



Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter. -- Martin

Luther King Jr.

When you are right you cannot be too radical; when you are wrong, you cannot be too

conservative. -- Martin Luther King Jr.

The hope of a secure and livable world lies with disciplined nonconformists who are

dedicated to justice, peace and brotherhood. -- Martin Luther King Jr., "Strength to

Love"

I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality.

That is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant. -- Martin

Luther King Jr., Accepting Nobel Peace Price, Dec. 10, 1964



Nonviolence is the answer to the crucial political and moral questions of our time; the

need for mankind to overcome oppression and violence without resorting to

oppression and violence. Mankind must evolve for all human conflict a method which

rejects revenge, aggression, and retaliation. The foundation of such a method is love. -

- Martin Luther King Jr., December 11, 1964

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. -- Martin Luther King Jr., Letter

from Birmingham Jail, April 16, 1963

I submit to you that if a man hasn't discovered something he will die for, he isn't fit to

live. -- Martin Luther King Jr., Speech in Detroit, June 23, 1963







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Nothing in all the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious

stupidity. -- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

Our scientific power has outrun our spiritual power. We have guided missiles and

misguided men. -- Martin Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963

The ultimate measure of a man is not where he stands in moments of comfort and

convenience, but where he stands at times of challenge and controversy. -- Martin

Luther King Jr., Strength to Love, 1963



A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step. -- Lao-tzu, The

Way of Lao-tzu 600 BC

He who knows others is wise; He who know himself is enlightened. -- Lao-tzu,

The Way of Lao-tzu

He who loves the world as his body may be entrusted with the empire. -- Lao-

tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

I have three treasures. Guard and keep them: The first is deep love, The

second is frugality, And the third is not to dare to be ahead of the world.

Because of deep love, one is courageous. Because of frugality, one is

generous. Because of not daring to be ahead of the world, one becomes the

leader of the world. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

Manifest plainness, Embrace simplicity, Reduce selfishness, Have few

desires. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

People are difficult to govern because they have too much knowledge. -- Lao-

tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

The best [man] is like water. Water is good; it benefits all things and does not

compete with them. It dwells in [lowly] places that all disdain. This is why it is

so near to Tao. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers

there will be. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world.

Through this I know the advantage of taking no action. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of

Lao-tzu

The Way of Heaven is to benefit others and not to injure. The Way of the

sage is to act but not to compete. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

There is no calamity greater than lavish desires. There is no greater guilt

than discontentment. And there is not greater disaster than greed. -- Lao-tzu,

The Way of Lao-tzu

To be worn out is to be renewed. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

To have little is to possess. To have plenty is to be perplexed. -- Lao-tzu, The

Way of Lao-tzu

To know that you do not know is the best. To pretend to know when you do

not know is a disease. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

To produce things and to rear them, To produce, but not to take possession

of them, To act, but not to rely on one's own ability, To lead them, but not to

master them - This is called profound and secret virtue. -- Lao-tzu, The Way

of Lao-tzu

When armies are mobilized and issues are joined, The man who is sorry over

the fact will win. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu

When the highest type of men hear Tao, They diligently practice it. When the

average type of men hear Tao, They half believe in it. When the lowest type

of men hear Tao, They laugh heartily at it. -- Lao-tzu, The Way of Lao-tzu



Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all

doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln

Force is all-conquering, but its victories are short-lived. -- Abraham Lincoln



I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended

upon to meet any national crises. The great point is to bring them the real

facts. -- Abraham Lincoln

If you would win a man to your cause, first convince him that you are his

sincere friend. -- Abraham Lincoln

It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few

virtues. -- Abraham Lincoln

You cannot escape the responsibility of tomorrow by evading it today. --

Abraham Lincoln



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You may deceive all the people part of the time, and part of the people all the

time, but not all the people all the time. -- Abraham Lincoln

Quarrel not at all. No man resolved to make the most of himself can spare

time for personal contention. -- Abraham Lincoln, in a letter to J. M. Cutts,

October 26, 1863

Truth is generally the best vindication against slander. -- Abraham Lincoln,

letter to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton, July 18, 1864

Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow. The shadow is what

we think of it; the tree is the real thing. -- Abraham Lincoln, Lincoln's Own

Stories

I have always found that mercy bears richer fruits than strict justice. --

Abraham Lincoln, speech in Washington D.C., 1865

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five. --

Groucho Marx 1960

Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to

read. -- Groucho Marx

Those are my principles, and if you don't like them... well, I have others. --

Groucho Marx

By faithful study of the nobler arts, our nature's softened, and more gentle

grows. -- Ovid Rome, 5

Chance is always powerful. Let your hook be always cast; in the pool where

you least expect it, there will be a fish. -- Ovid

Dignity and love do not blend well, nor do they continue long together. -- Ovid



If you would marry suitably, marry your equal. -- Ovid

Love will enter cloaked in friendship's name. -- Ovid

Take rest; a field that has rested gives a bountiful crop. -- Ovid

Tears at times have all the weight of speech. -- Ovid

The cause is hidden. The effect is visible to all. -- Ovid

Be kind, for everyone you meet is fighting a hard battle. -- Plato

Death is not the worst than can happen to men. -- Plato 400 BC

Ignorance, the root and the stem of every evil. -- Plato

Man...is a tame or civilized animal; never the less, he requires proper

instruction and a fortunate nature, and then of all animals he becomes the

most divine and most civilized; but if he be insufficiently or ill- educated he is

the most savage of earthly creatures. -- Plato

Never discourage anyone...who continually makes progress, no matter how

slow. – Plato

No human thing is of serious importance. -- Plato

The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil

men. -- Plato

They certainly give very strange names to diseases. -- Plato

Wise men talk because they have something to say; fools, because they

have to say something. -- Plato

You can discover more about a person in an hour of play than in a year of

conversation. -- Plato

No evil can happen to a good man, either in life or after death. -- Plato,

Dialogues, Apology

The life which is unexamined is not worth living. -- Plato, Dialogues, Apology



False words are not only evil in themselves, but they infect the soul with evil. --

Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

Must not all things at the last be swallowed up in death? -- Plato, Dialogues,

Phaedo

The partisan, when he is engaged in a dispute, cares nothing about the rights

of the question, but is anxious only to convince his hearers of his own

assertions. -- Plato, Dialogues, Phaedo

The greatest penalty of evildoing - namely, to grow into the likeness of bad

men. -- Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus

You are young, my son, and, as the years go by, time will change and even

reverse many of your present opinions. Refrain therefore awhile from setting

yourself up as a judge of the highest matters. -- Plato, Dialogues, Theatetus







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Astronomy compels the soul to look upwards and leads us from this world to

another. -- Plato, The Republic

Bodily exercise, when compulsory, does no harm to the body; but knowledge

which is acquired under compulsion obtains no hold on the mind. -- Plato,

The Republic

Everything that deceives may be said to enchant. -- Plato, The Republic

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but

to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden. --

Plato, The Republic

I have hardly ever known a mathematician who was capable of reasoning. --

Plato, The Republic

The beginning is the most important part of the work. -- Plato, The Republic



The direction in which education starts a man will determine his future life. --

Plato, The Republic

The people have always some champion whom they set over them and nurse

into greatness...This and no other is the root from which a tyrant springs;

when he first appears he is a protector. -- Plato, The Republic

The soul of man is immortal and imperishable. -- Plato, The Republic

Wealth is the parent of luxury and indolence, and poverty of meanness and

viciousness, and both of discontent. -- Plato, The Republic

When there is an income tax, the just man will pay more and the unjust less

on the same amount of income. -- Plato, The Republic

A suspicious mind always looks on the black side of things. -- Publilius Syrus

100 BC

Admonish thy friends in secret, praise them openly. -- Publilius Syrus

An angry man is again angry with himself when he returns to reason. --

Publilius Syrus

Any plan is bad which is incapable of modification. -- Publilius Syrus

Count not him among your friends who will retail your privacies to the world. --

Publilius Syrus

Depend not on fortune, but on conduct. -- Publilius Syrus

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself. -- Publilius Syrus

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth. -- Publilius Syrus



It is folly to punish your neighbor by fire when you live next door. -- Publilius

Syrus

It is no profit to have learned well, if you neglect to do well. -- Publilius Syrus



Learn to see in another's calamity the ills which you should avoid. -- Publilius

Syrus

Look to be treated by others as you have treated others. -- Publilius Syrus



Never promise more than you can perform. -- Publilius Syrus

Ready tears are a sign of treachery, not of grief. -- Publilius Syrus

Tis foolish to fear what you cannot avoid. -- Publilius Syrus

To-day is the pupil of yesterday. -- Publilius Syrus

We must give lengthy deliberation to what has to be decided once and for all.

-- Publilius Syrus

You should not live one way in private, another in public. -- Publilius Syrus



A fair exterior is a silent recommendation. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

A good reputation is more valuable than money. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



A rolling stone gathers no moss. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

Anyone can hold the helm when the sea is calm. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



Better be ignorant of a matter than half know it. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



Do not turn back when you are just at the goal. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



Every day should be passed as if it were to be our last. -- Publilius Syrus,

Maxims





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Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



He doubly benefits the needy who gives quickly. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



I have often regretted my speech, never my silence. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



It is a consolation to the wretched to have companions in misery. -- Publilius

Syrus, Maxims

It is a very hard undertaking to seek to please everybody. -- Publilius Syrus,

Maxims

It is better to learn late than never. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

It is not every question that deserves an answer. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



It is only the ignorant who despise education. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

It takes a long time to bring excellence to maturity. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



Let a fool hold his tongue and he will pass for a sage. -- Publilius Syrus,

Maxims

Many receive advice, few profit by it. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

Money alone sets all the world in motion. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

Never find your delight in another's misfortune. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

No man is happy who does not think himself so. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



No one knows what he can do till he tries. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

No one should be judge in his own case. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

Nothing can be done at once hastily and prudently. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



Pardon one offense, and you encourage the commission of many. -- Publilius

Syrus, Maxims

Prosperity makes friends, adversity tries them. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



Speech is a mirror of the soul: as a man speaks, so is he. -- Publilius Syrus,

Maxims

The fear of death is more to be dreaded than death itself. -- Publilius Syrus,

Maxims

There are some remedies worse than the disease. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



To do two things at once is to do neither. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims

Treat your friend as if he might become an enemy. -- Publilius Syrus, Maxims



While we stop to think, we often miss our opportunity. -- Publilius Syrus,

Maxims

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm. -- Publilius Syrus,

Maxims

As men, we are all equal in the presence of death. -- Publilius Syrus, Moral

Sayings, First Century B.C.

We simply rob ourselves when we make presents to the dead. -- Publilius

Syrus, Moral Sayings, First Century B.C.

The end always passes judgement on what has gone before. -- Publilius

Syrus, Sententiae (c. 43 BC)

A true friend is the greatest of all blessings, and that which we take the least

care of all to acquire. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld 1660

Before we set our hearts too much upon anything, let us examine how happy

those are who already possess it. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld



Few are agreeable in conversation, because each thinks more of what he

intends to say than of what others are saying, and listens no more when he

himself has a chance to speak. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Good advice is something a man gives when he is too old to set a bad

example. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Gratitude is merely the secret hope of further favors. -- Francois de La

Rochefoucauld

He who lives without folly isn't so wise as he thinks. -- Francois de La

Rochefoucauld



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If we had no faults of our own, we would not take so much pleasure in

noticing those of others. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

It is a great ability to be able to conceal one's ability. -- Francois de La

Rochefoucauld

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill

that may happen to us in consequence. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld



The pleasure of love is in loving. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We confess our little faults to persuade people that we have no large ones. --

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We should often be ashamed of our finest actions if the world understood our

motives. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

When we are unable to find tranquility within ourselves, it is useless to seek it

elsewhere. -- Francois de La Rochefoucauld

We rarely think people have good sense unless they agree with us. --

Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maximes (1678)

All art is an imitation of nature. -- Seneca Rome 50

Be not too hasty either with praise or blame; speak always as though you

were giving evidence before the judgement-seat of the Gods. -- Seneca



Be silent as to services you have rendered, but speak of favours you have

received. -- Seneca

Consult your friend on all things, especially on those which respect yourself.

His counsel may then be useful where your own self-love might impair your

judgment. -- Seneca

Dangerous is wrath concealed. Hatred proclaimed doth lose its chance of

wreaking vengeance. -- Seneca

Delay not; swift the flight of fortune's greatest favours. -- Seneca

Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body. -- Seneca

Enjoy present pleasures in such a way as not to injure future ones. -- Seneca



He who spares the wicked injures the good. -- Seneca

He will live ill who does not know how to die well. -- Seneca

I do not distinguish by the eye, but by the mind, which is the proper judge. --

Seneca

I shall never be ashamed of citing a bad author if the line is good. -- Seneca



If a man does not know to what port he is steering, no wind is favourable to

him. -- Seneca

If virtue precede us every step will be safe. -- Seneca

It is a denial of justice not to stretch out a helping hand to the fallen; that is

the common right of humanity. -- Seneca

It is a great thing to know the season for speech and the season for silence. --

Seneca

It is a youthful failing to be unable to control one's impulses. -- Seneca

It is easier to exclude harmful passions than to rule them, and to deny them

admittance than to control them after they have been admitted. -- Seneca



It is not because things are difficult that we do not dare; it is because we do

not dare that they are difficult. -- Seneca

It is pleasant at times to play the madman. -- Seneca

It is rash to condemn where you are ignorant. -- Seneca

It should be our care not so much to live a long life as a satisfactory one. --

Seneca

Let tears flow of their own accord: their flowing is not inconsistent with inward

peace and harmony. -- Seneca

Life without the courage for death is slavery. -- Seneca

Many things have fallen only to rise higher. -- Seneca

Most powerful is he who has himself in his own power. -- Seneca

No one can wear a mask for very long. -- Seneca

Not to feel one's misfortunes is not human, not to bear them in not manly. --

Seneca

Nothing deters a good man from doing what is honourable. -- Seneca

One hand washes the other. (Manus Manum Lavet) -- Seneca



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One should count each day a separate life. -- Seneca

Speech is the mirror of the mind. (Imago Animi Sermo Est) -- Seneca

The arts are the servant; wisdom its master. -- Seneca

The first step towards amendment is the recognition of error. -- Seneca

Wealth is the slave of a wise man. The master of a fool. -- Seneca

What does reason demand of a man? A very easy thing--to live in accord with

his nature. -- Seneca

Where reason fails, time oft has worked a cure. -- Seneca

Where the speech is corrupted, the mind is also. -- Seneca

While the fates permit, live happily; life speeds on with hurried step, and with

winged days the wheel of the headlong year is turned. -- Seneca

Without an adversary prowess shrivels. We see how great and efficient it

really is only when it shows by endurance what it is capable of. -- Seneca

He who boasts of his ancestry is praising the deeds of another. -- Seneca,

'Hercules Furens,' 100 A.D.

Fire is the test of gold; adversity, of strong men. -- Seneca, Epistles

It is not the man who has too little, but the man who craves more, that is poor.

-- Seneca, Epistles

It is quality rather than quantity that matters. -- Seneca, Epistles

Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening.

-- Seneca, Epistles

Men do not care how nobly they live, but only how long, although it is within

the reach of every man to live nobly, but within no man's power to live long. --

Seneca, Epistles

The best ideas are common property. -- Seneca, Epistles

There is no great genius without some touch of madness. -- Seneca, Epistles



You can tell the character of every man when you see how he receives

praise. -- Seneca, Epistles

The spirit in which a thing is given determines that in which the debt is

acknowledged; it's the intention, not the face-value of the gift, that's weighed. -

- Seneca, Letters to Lucilius, 100 A.D.

Nothing is as certain as that the vices of leisure are gotten rid of by being

busy. -- Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius, 64 A.D.

And thus I clothe my naked villainy | With old odd ends, stol'n forth of holy

writ; | And seem a saint, when most I play the devil. -- William Shakespeare



Glory is like a circle in the water, | Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, | Till

by broad spreading it disperses to naught. -- William Shakespeare

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. -- George Bernard Shaw 1940



A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art

into pedantry. Hence University education. -- George Bernard Shaw

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than

a life spent doing nothing. -- George Bernard Shaw

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we

deserve. -- George Bernard Shaw

Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never

learn anything from history. -- George Bernard Shaw

Lack of money is the root of all evil. -- George Bernard Shaw

Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries

because you were born in it. -- George Bernard Shaw

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth. -- George

Bernard Shaw

You are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life and your reward will

be that you will eat, but you will not live. -- George Bernard Shaw

People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't

believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people

who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find

them, make them. -- George Bernard Shaw, "Mrs. Warren's Profession"

(1893) act II

The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be

indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity. -- George Bernard

Shaw, "The Devil's Disciple" (1901), act II



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"Do you know what a pessimist is?" "A man who thinks everybody is as nasty

as himself, and hates them for it." -- George Bernard Shaw, An Unsocial

Socialist (1887) ch. 5

All great truths begin as blasphemies. -- George Bernard Shaw, Annajanska

(1919)

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to

consume wealth without producing it. -- George Bernard Shaw, Candida

(1898) act 1

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support

of Paul. -- George Bernard Shaw, Everybody's Political What's What? (1944)

ch. 30

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to

a political career. -- George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara (1907) act 3



Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by

the corrupt few. -- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903)

"Maxims for Revolutionists"

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it. -- George

Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists"

By all means marry; if you get a good wife, you'll be happy. If you get a bad

one, you'll become a philosopher. -- Socrates 420 BC

Do not do to others what angers you if done to you by others. -- Socrates

Envy is the ulcer of the soul. -- Socrates

Remember that there is nothing stable in human affairs; therefore avoid

undue elation in prosperity, or undue depression in adversity. -- Socrates

Remember what is unbecoming to do is also unbecoming to speak of. --

Socrates

The shortest and surest way to live with honour in the world, is to be in reality

what we would appear to be; and if we observe, we shall find, that all human

virtues increase and strengthen themselves by the practice of them. --

Socrates

Think not those faithful who praise all thy words and actions; but those who

kindly reprove thy faults. -- Socrates

Thou shouldst eat to live; not live to eat. -- Socrates

Having the fewest wants, I am nearest to the gods. -- Socrates, from

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

I know nothing except the fact of my ignorance. -- Socrates, from Diogenes

Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance. -- Socrates, from

Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers

I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a citizen of the world. -- Socrates, from

Plutarch, Of Banishment

I do nothing but go about persuading you all, old and young alike, not to take

thought for your persons or your properties, but and chiefly to care about the

greatest improvement of the soul. I tell you that virtue is not given by money,

but that from virtue comes money and every other good of man, public as well

as private. This is my teaching, and if this is the doctrine which corrupts the

youth, I am a mischievous person. -- Socrates, quoted by Plato, 'The Death of

Socrates'

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung

it away. -- Sophocles 450 BC

Much speech is one thing, well-timed speech is another. -- Sophocles

What you cannot enforce, do not command. -- Sophocles

No man loves life like him that's growing old. -- Sophocles, Acrisius

To him who is in fear everything rustles. -- Sophocles, Acrisius

Men of ill judgment oft ignore the good | That lies within their hands, till they

have lost it. -- Sophocles, Ajax

Of all human ills, greatest is fortune's wayward tyranny. -- Sophocles, Ajax



For God hates utterly | The bray of bragging tongues. -- Sophocles, Antigone



Grief teaches the steadiest minds to waver. -- Sophocles, Antigone

How dreadful it is when the right judge judges wrong! -- Sophocles, Antigone





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I have nothing but contempt for the kind of governor who is afraid, for

whatever reason, to follow the course that he knows is best for the State; and

as for the man who sets private friendship above the public welfare - I have

no use for him either. -- Sophocles, Antigone

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money. -- Sophocles,

Antigone

Nobody likes the man who brings bad news. -- Sophocles, Antigone

Numberless are the world's wonders, but none |More wonderful than man. --

Sophocles, Antigone

Reason is God's crowning gift to man. -- Sophocles, Antigone

Show me the man who keeps his house in hand, | He's fit for public authority. -

- Sophocles, Antigone

The ideal condition | Would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; |

But since we are all likely to go astray, | The reasonable thing is to learn from

those who can teach. -- Sophocles, Antigone

There is no happiness where there is no wisdom; | No wisdom but in

submission to the gods.

Big words are always punished, | And proud men in old age learn to be wise. -

- Sophocles, Antigone

Wisdom outweighs any wealth. -- Sophocles, Antigone

One word | Frees us of all the weight and pain of life: | That word is love. --

Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Stranger in a strange country. -- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

The good befriend themselves. -- Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus

Time eases all things. -- Sophocles, Oedipus Rex

A prudent mind can see room for misgiving, lest he who prospers would one

day suffer reverse. -- Sophocles, Trachiniae

Knowledge must come through action; you can have no test which is not

fanciful, save by trial. -- Sophocles, Trachiniae

Rash indeed is he who reckons on the morrow, or haply on days beyond it;

for tomorrow is not, until today is past. -- Sophocles, Trachiniae

Look with favour upon a bold beginning. -- Virgil rome – 30 BC

O tyrant love, to what do you not drive the hearts of men. -- Virgil

They can conquer who believe they can. They can do all because they think

they can. -- Virgil

Your descendants shall gather your fruits. -- Virgil

Death's brother, Sleep. -- Virgil, Aeneid

Each of us bears his own Hell. -- Virgil, Aeneid

Yield not to evils, but attack all the more boldly. -- Virgil, Aeneid

Let us go singing as far as we go: the road will be less tedious. -- Virgil,

Eclogues

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to Love. -- Virgil, Eclogues

Trust one who has gone through it. -- Virgil, The Aeneid

I am a man, and whatever concerns humanity is of interest to me. -- Terence

Rome 150 BC

I am a man: I hold that nothing human is alien to me. -- Terence

I bid him look into the lives of men as though into a mirror, and from others to

take an example for himself. -- Terence

So many men so many questions. (Quot Homines Tot Sententiae) -- Terence

That is true wisdom, to know how to alter one's mind when occasion demands it. --

Terence

Their silence is sufficient praise. -- Terence

There is a demand in these days for men who can make wrong appear right. --

Terence

There is nothing so easy but that it becomes difficult when you do it reluctantly. --

Terence

Too much liberty corrupts us all. -- Terence

What is done let us leave alone. -- Terence

While there's life, there's hope. -- Terence

Charity begins at home. -- Terence, Andria

Moderation in all things. -- Terence, Andria

I have everything, yet have nothing; and although I possess nothing, still of nothing

am I in want. -- Terence, Eunuchus

In fact, nothing is said that has not been said before. -- Terence, Eunuchus





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Faithless is he that says farewell when the road darkens. -- J. R. R. Tolkien 1950



If more of us valued food and cheer and song above hoarded gold, it would be a

merrier world. -- J. R. R. Tolkien

It's a job that's never started that takes the longest to finish. -- J. R. R. Tolkien

Little by little, one travels far. -- J. R. R. Tolkien

Control thy passions, lest they take vengeance on thee. -- Epictetus rome 100

First learn the meaning of what you say, and then speak. -- Epictetus

First say to yourself what you would be; and then do what you have to do. -- Epictetus



If you do not wish to be prone to anger, do not feed the habit; give it nothing which

may tend to its increase. -- Epictetus

If you would cure anger, do not feed it. Say to yourself: 'I used to be angry every day;

then every other day; now only every third or fourth day.' When you reach thirty days

offer a sacrifice of thanksgiving to the gods. -- Epictetus

Know, first, who you are; and then adorn yourself accordingly. -- Epictetus

Make the best use of what is in your power, and take the rest as it happens. --

Epictetus

Preach not to others what they should eat, but eat as becomes you, and be silent. --

Epictetus

The good or ill of a man lies within his own will. -- Epictetus

Only the educated are free. -- Epictetus, Discourses

What is the first business of one who practices philosophy? To get rid of self-conceit.

For it is impossible for anyone to begin to learn that which he thinks he already knows.

-- Epictetus, Discourses

When you close your doors, and make darkness within, remember never to say that

you are alone, for you are not alone; nay, God is within, and your genius is within. And

what need have they of light to see what you are doing? -- Epictetus, Discourses



Do not spoil what you have by desiring what you have not; but remember that what

you now have was once among the things only hoped for. -- Epicurus 300 BC



Justice is a contract of expediency, entered upon to prevent men harming or being

harmed. -- Epicurus

The man least dependent upon the morrow goes to meet the morrow most cheerfully. -

- Epicurus, 300 B.C.

Death is nothing to us, since when we are, death has not come, and when death has

come, we are not. -- Epicurus, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of Eminent Philosophers



Better fare hard with good men than feast it with bad. -- Thomas Paine 1770

Such is the irresistible nature of truth that all it asks, and all it wants, is the liberty of

appearing. -- Thomas Paine

The real man smiles in trouble, gathers strength from distress, and grows brave by

reflection. -- Thomas Paine

The world is my country, all mankind are my brethren, and to do good is my religion. --

Thomas Paine

When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not

hereditary. -- Thomas Paine

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is

always a virtue, but moderation in principle is always a vice. -- Thomas Paine, "The

Rights of Man", 1792

Clarity of mind means clarity of passion, too; this is why a great and clear mind loves

ardently and sees distinctly what it loves. -- Blaise Pascal 1650, Fr



Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the

infinity in which he is engulfed. -- Blaise Pascal

Men never do evil so completely and cheerfully as when they do it from a religious

conviction. -- Blaise Pascal

One must know oneself, if this does not serve to discover truth, it at least serves as a

rule of life and there is nothing better. -- Blaise Pascal

Since we cannot know all that there is to be known about anything, we ought to know

a little about everything. -- Blaise Pascal

The eternal silence of these infinite spaces fills me with dread. -- Blaise Pascal



The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. -- Blaise Pascal

We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by

those given to us by others. -- Blaise Pascal



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We arrive at the truth, not by the reason only, but also by the heart. -- Blaise Pascal



I have made this [letter] longer, because I have not had the time to make it shorter. --

Blaise Pascal, "Lettres provinciales", letter 16, 1657

Do not speak of your happiness to one less fortunate than yourself. -- Plutarch gr 80



Know how to listen, and you will profit even from those who talk badly. -- Plutarch



No beast is more savage than man when possessed with power answerable to his

rage. -- Plutarch

To find a fault is easy; to do better may be difficult. -- Plutarch

It is certainly desirable to be well descended, but the glory belongs to our ancestors. --

Plutarch, 'Morals,' 100 A.D.

Perseverance is more prevailing than violence; and many things which cannot be

overcome when they are together, yield themselves up when taken little by little. --

Plutarch, Lives

The very spring and root of honesty and virtue lie in good education. -- Plutarch,

Morals

When the candles are out all women are fair. -- Plutarch, Morals

Never criticize a man until you've walked a mile in his moccasins. -- American Indian

Proverb

If you refuse to be made straight when you are green, you will not be made straight

when you are dry. -- African Proverb

A bird does not sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. --

Chinese Proverb

Be not afraid of growing slowly; be afraid only of standing still. -- Chinese Proverb



Do not remove a fly from your friend's forehead with a hatchet. -- Chinese Proverb



Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you feed him

for a lifetime. -- Chinese Proverb

He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.

-- Chinese Proverb

Teachers open the door. You enter by yourself. -- Chinese Proverb

Above all things, reverence yourself. -- Pythagoras 520 BC

Choose rather to be strong of soul than strong of body. -- Pythagoras

Do not talk a little on many subjects, but much on a few. -- Pythagoras

In anger we should refrain both from speech and action. -- Pythagoras

It is better wither to be silent, or to say things of more value than silence. Sooner throw

a pearl at hazard than an idle or useless word; and do not say a little in many words,

but a great deal in a few. -- Pythagoras

Rest satisfied with doing well, and leave others to talk of you as they please. --

Pythagoras

Reason is immortal, all else mortal. -- Pythagoras, from Diogenes Laertius, Lives of

Eminent Philosophers

Give me where to stand, and I will move the earth. -- Archimedes, 300 B.C.

I keep the subject of my inquiry constantly before me, and wait till the first dawning

opens gradually, by little and little, into a full and clear light. -- Isaac Newton



If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient

attention, than to any other talent. -- Isaac Newton

Tact is the knack of making a point without making an enemy. -- Isaac Newton

I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only

like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a

smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all

undiscovered before me. -- Isaac Newton, From Brewster, Memoirs of Newton (1855)



If I have seen further it is by standing on the shoulders of giants. -- Isaac Newton,

Letter to Robert Hooke, February 5, 1675

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely uneducated. --

Alec Bourne

An education isn't how much you have committed to memory, or even how much you

know. It's being able to differentiate between what you do know and what you don't. --

Anatole France (1844 - 1924)

Education is the best provision for old age. -- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)

Education is what survives when what has been learned has been forgotten. -- B. F.

Skinner (1904 - 1990), New Scientist, May 21, 1964



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Education... has produced a vast population able to read but unable to distinguish

what is worth reading. -- G. M. Trevelyan (1876 - 1962), English Social History (1942)



Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe. --

H. G. Wells (1866 - 1946), Outline of History (1920)

College isn't the place to go for ideas. -- Helen Keller (1880 - 1968)

The great aim of education is not knowledge but action. -- Herbert Spencer (1820 -

1903)

Next in importance to freedom and justice is popular education, without which neither

freedom nor justice can be permanently maintained. -- James A. Garfield (1831 -

1881), July 12, 1880

A university is what a college becomes when the faculty loses interest in students. --

John Ciardi (1916 - 1986)

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one. -- Malcolm Forbes

(1919 - 1990), in Forbes Magazine

To repeat what others have said, requires education; to challenge it, requires brains. --

Mary Pettibone Poole, A Glass Eye at a Keyhole, 1938

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to

reason incorrectly. -- Michel de Montaigne (1533 - 1592)

Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your

self confidence. -- Robert Frost (1874 - 1963)

Perhaps the most valuable result of all education is the ability to make yourself do the

thing you have to do, when it ought to be done, whether you like it or not; it is the first

lesson that ought to be learned; and however early a man's training begins, it is

probably the last lesson that he learns thoroughly. -- Thomas H. Huxley (1825 - 1895)



Education is a progressive discovery of our own ignorance. -- Will Durant (1885 -

1981)

The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and

death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which

can on no account be neglected. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

All warfare is based on deception. Hence, when able to attack, we must seem

unable; when using our forces, we must seem inactive; when we are near, we

must make the enemy believe we are far away; when far away, we must

make him believe we are near. Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign

disorder, and crush him. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War



If your enemy is secure at all points, be prepared for him. If he is in superior

strength, evade him. If your opponent is temperamental, seek to irritate him.

Pretend to be weak, that he may grow arrogant. If he is taking his ease, give

him no rest. If his forces are united, separate them. If sovereign and subject

are in accord, put division between them. Attack him where he is unprepared,

appear where you are not expected. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

"The art of using troops is this:

......When ten to the enemy's one, surround him;

......When five times his strength, attack him;

......If double his strength, divide him;

......If equally matched you may engage him;

......If weaker numerically, be capable of withdrawing;

......And if in all respects unequal, be capable of eluding him,

..........for a small force is but booty for one more powerful."

- Sun Tzu, the Art Of War

"Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the

deepest valleys.

Look on them as your own beloved sons, and they will stand by you even

unto death!" -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War



The general who wins a battle makes many calculations in his temple ere the

battle is fought. The general who loses a battle makes but few calculations

beforehand. Thus do many calculations lead to victory, and few calculations

to defeat: how much more no calculation at all! It is by attention to this point

that I can foresee who is likely to w in or lose. --Sun Tzu, the Art of War









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He who wishes to fight must first count the cost. When you engage in actual

fighting, if victory is long in coming, then men's weapons will grow dull and

their ardor will be dampened. If you lay siege to a town, you will exhaust your

strength. Again, if the campaign is protracted, the resources of the State will

not be equal to the strain. Now, when your weapons are dulled, your ardor

dampened, your strength exhausted and your treasure spent, other chieftains

will spring up to take advantage of your extremity. Then no man, however

wise, will be able to avert the consequences that must ensue... In war, then,

let your great object be victory, not lengthy campaigns. -- -Sun Tzu, the Art of

War

Though we have heard of stupid haste in war, cleverness has never been

seen associated with long delays. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

It is only one who is thoroughly acquainted with the evils of war that can

thoroughly understand the profitable way of carrying it on. -- -Sun Tzu, the Art

of War



Bring war material with you from home, but forage on the enemy... use the

conquered foe to augment one's own strength. -- -Sun Tzu, the Art of War



In the practical art of war, the best thing of all is to take the enemy's country

whole and intact; to shatter and destroy it is not so good. So, too, it is better to

recapture an army entire than to destroy it. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

To fight and conquer in all your battles is not supreme excellence; supreme

excellence consists in breaking the enemy's resistance without fighting. --

Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Thus the highest form of generalship is to balk the enemy's plans, the next

best is to prevent the junction of the enemy's forces, the next in order is to

attack the enemy's army in the field, and the worst policy of all is to besiege

walled cities. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War



There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune upon his army: By

commanding the army to advance or to retreat, being ignorant of the fact that

it cannot obey; This is called hobbling the army. By attempting to govern an

army in the same way as he administers a kingdom, being ignorant of the

conditions which obtain in an army; This causes restlessness in the soldier's

minds. By employing the officers of his army without discrimination, through

ignorance of the military principle of adaptation to circumstances. This shakes

the confidence of the soldiers. -- -Sun Tzu, the Art of War

He will win who knows when to fight and when not to fight. He will win who

knows how to handle both superior and inferior forces. He will win whose

army is animated by the same spirit throughout all its ranks. He will win who,

prepared himself, waits to take the enemy unprepared. He will win who has

military capacity and is not interfered with by the sovereign. --Sun Tzu, the Art

of War

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a

hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory

gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor

yourself, you will succumb in every battle. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

The good fighters of old first put themselves beyond the possibility of defeat,

and then waited for an opportunity of defeating the enemy. To secure

ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of

defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself. Thus the good fighter

is able to secure himself against defeat, but cannot make certain of defeating

the enemy. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

The victorious strategist only seeks battle after the victory has been won,

whereas he who is destined to defeat first fights and afterwards looks for

victory. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Fighting with a large army under your command is nowise different from

fighting with a small one: it is merely a question of instituting signs and

signals. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War









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In all fighting, the direct method may be used for joining battle, but indirect

methods will be needed in order to secure victory. In battle, there are not

more than two methods of attack - the direct and the indirect; yet these two in

combination give rise to an endless series of maneuvers. The direct and the

indirect lead on to each other in turn. It is like moving in a circle - you never

come to an end. Who can exhaust the possibilities of their combination? --

Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming of the enemy, will be fresh

for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle will

arrive exhausted. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

An army may march great distances without distress, if it marches through

country where the enemy is not. You can be sure of succeeding in your

attacks if you only attack places which are undefended. You can ensure the

safety of your defense if you only hold positions that cannot be attacked. --

Sun Tzu, the Art of War



If we wish to fight, the enemy can be forced to an engagement even though

he be sheltered behind a high rampart and a deep ditch. All we need do is

attack some other place that he will be obliged to relieve. If we do not wish to

fight, we can prevent the enemy from engaging us even though the lines of

our encampment be merely traced out on the ground. All we need do is to

throw something odd and unaccountable in his way. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Should the enemy strengthen his van, he will weaken his rear; should he

strengthen his rear, he will weaken his van; should he strengthen his left, he

will weaken his right; should he strengthen his right, he will weaken his left. If

he sends reinforcements everywhere, he will everywhere be weak. -- Sun

Tzu, the Art of War

In making tactical dispositions, the highest pitch you can attain is to conceal

them. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Military tactics are like unto water; for water in its natural course runs away

from high places and hastens downwards... Water shapes its course

according to the nature of the ground over which it flows; the soldier works

out his victory in relation to the foe whom he is facing. Therefore, just as

water retains no constant shape, so in warfare there are no constant

conditions. He who can modify his tactics in relation to his opponent and

thereby succeed in winning, may be called a heaven-born captain. -- Sun

Tzu, the Art of War

So in war, the way is to avoid what is strong and to strike at what is weak. --

Sun Tzu, the Art of War

The difficulty of tactical maneuvering consists in turning the devious into the

direct, and misfortune into gain. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Maneuvering with an army is advantageous; with an undisciplined multitude,

most dangerous. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

We cannot enter into alliances until we are acquainted with the designs of our

neighbors. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Do not interfere with an army that is returning home. When you surround an

army, leave an outlet free. Do not press a desperate foe too hard. -- Sun Tzu,

the Art of War

The art of war teaches us to rely not on the likelihood of the enemy's not

coming, but on our own readiness to receive him; not on the chance of his not

attacking, but rather on the fact that we have made our position unassailable.

-- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

When the common soldiers are too strong and their officers too weak, the

result is INSUBORDINATION. When the officers are too strong and the

common soldiers too weak, the result is COLLAPSE. When the higher

officers are angry and insubordinate, and on meeting the enemy give battle

on their own account from a feeling of resentment, before the commander-in-

chief can tell whether or no he is in a position to fight, the result is RUIN. --

Sun Tzu, the Art of War



The general who advances without coveting fame and retreats without fearing

disgrace, whose only thought is to protect his country and do good service for

his sovereign, is the jewel of the kingdom. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War





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Regard your soldiers as your children, and they will follow you into the

deepest valleys; look upon them as your own beloved sons, and they will

stand by you even unto death. If, however, you are indulgent, but unable to

make your authority felt; kind-hearted, but unable to enforce your commands;

and incapable, moreover, of quelling disorder: then your soldiers must be

likened to spoilt children; they are useless for any practical purpose. -- Sun

Tzu, the Art of War

If we know that our own men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that

the enemy is not open to attack, we have gone only halfway towards victory.

If we know that the enemy is open to attack, but are unaware that our own

men are not in a condition to attack, we have gone only halfway towards

victory. If we know that the enemy is open to attack, and also know that our

men are in a condition to attack, but are unaware that the nature of the

ground makes fighting impracticable, we have still gone only halfway towards

victory. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

If you know the enemy and know yourself, your victory will not stand in doubt;

if you know Heaven and know Earth, you may make your victory complete. --

Sun Tzu, the Art of War

On dispersive ground, therefore, fight not. On facile ground, halt not. On

contentious ground, attack not. On open ground, do not try to block the

enemy's way. On the ground of intersecting highways, join hands with your

allies. On serious ground, gather in plunder. In difficult ground, keep steadily

on the march. On hemmed-in ground, resort to stratagem. On desperate

ground, fight. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

If asked how to cope with a great host of the enemy in orderly array and on

the point of marching to the attack, I should say: "Begin by seizing something

which your opponent holds dear; then he will be amenable to your will."

Rapidity is the essence of war: take advantage of the enemy's unreadiness,

make your way by unexpected routes, and attack unguarded spots. -- Sun

Tzu, the Art of War

Throw your soldiers into positions whence there is no escape, and they will

prefer death to flight. If they will face death, there is nothing they may not

achieve. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Bestow rewards without regard to rule, issue orders without regard to

previous arrangements; and you will be able to handle a whole army as

though you had to do with but a single man.-- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Unhappy is the fate of one who tries to win his battles and succeed in his

attacks without cultivating the spirit of enterprise; for the result is waste of

time and general stagnation. Hence the saying: The enlightened ruler lays his

plans well ahead; the good general cultivates his resources. -- Sun Tzu, the

Art of War

Move not unless you see an advantage; use not your troops unless there is

something to be gained; fight not unless the position is critical. If it is to your

advantage, make a forward move; if not, stay where you are. Anger may in

time change to gladness; vexation may be succeeded by content. -- Sun Tzu,

the Art of War



No leader should put troops into the field merely to gratify his own spleen; no

leader should fight a battle simply out of pique. But a kingdom that has once

been destroyed can never come again into being; nor can the dead ever be

brought back to life. Hence the enlightened leader is heedful, and the good

leader full of caution. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Spies cannot be usefully employed without a certain intuitive sagacity; (2)

They cannot be properly managed without benevolence and straight

forwardness; (3) Without subtle ingenuity of mind, one cannot make certain of

the truth of their reports; (4) Be subtle! be subtle! and use your spies for every

kind of warfare; (5) If a secret piece of news is divulged by a spy before the

time is ripe, he must be put to death together with the man to whom the

secret was told. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War









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The enemy's spies who have come to spy on us must be sought out, tempted

with bribes, led away and comfortably housed. Thus they will become double

agents and available for our service. It is through the information brought by

the double agent that we are able to acquire and employ local and inward

spies. It is owing to his information, again, that we can cause the doomed spy

to carry false tidings to the enemy. -- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

"To capture the enemy's entire army is better than to destroy it; to take intact

a regiment, a company, or a squad is better than to destroy them. For to win

one hundred victories in one hundred battles is not the supreme of

excellence. To subdue the enemy without fighting is the supreme excellence."

-- Sun Tzu, the Art of War

Winston Churchill -- "In war-time, truth is so precious that she should always

be attended by a bodyguard of lies."

"Republics are created by the virtue, public spirit, and intelligence of the

citizens. They fall, when the wise are banished from the public councils,

because they dare to be honest, and the profligate are rewarded, because

they flatter the people, in order to betray them." --Joseph Story

http://www.constitution.org/

"Adversity has the effect of eliciting talents which, in prosperous

circumstances, would have lain dormant." --Horace

"Today, we need a nation of Minutemen, citizens who are not only prepared

to take arms, but citizens who regard the preservation of freedom as the

basic purpose of their daily life and who are willing to consciously work and

sacrifice for that freedom." --John F. Kennedy

"In law, what pleas so tainted and corrupt, But being seasoned with a

gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil." --Shakespeare (The Merchant of

Venice)

"Take time to deliberate; but when the time for action arrives, stop thinking

and go in." --President Andrew Jackson

"Necessity never made a good bargain." --Benjamin Franklin

"A bank is a place where they lend you an umbrella in fair weather and ask

for it back when it begins to rain." --Robert Frost



"When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign: that

all the dunces are in confederacy against him." --Jonathan Swift



People who live and work together share many habits, ideas, skills, traditions,

and values. All these habitual ways of thinking and acting make up the

societies culture. Culture is the way of life that a group develops and passes

on to its children… Culture has been described as "a blueprint for living".

From birth to death, most of human life is spent learning, following, and

passing on this blueprint. (World History, L. Krieger, D.C Heath & Co. p19.)



To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his

fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose

fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the

first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of

his industry and the fruits acquired by it." --Thomas Jefferson

"If, from the more wretched parts of the old world, we look at those which are

in an advanced stage of improvement, we still find the greedy hand of

government thrusting itself into every corner and crevice of industry, and

grasping the spoil of the multitude. Invention is continually exercised, to

furnish new pretenses for revenues and taxation. It watches prosperity as its

prey and permits none to escape without tribute." --Thomas Paine

"To tax the community for the advantage of a class is not protection: it is

plunder." --Benjamin Disraeli

"A government which lays taxes on the people not required by urgent public

necessity and sound public policy is not a protector of liberty, but an

instrument of tyranny." --Calvin Coolidge

"A nation under a well regulated government, should permit none to remain

uninstructed. It is monarchical and aristocratical government only that

requires ignorance for its support." --Thomas Paine





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"The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear -- fear of the

unknown, the complex, the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything

else is safety." --H. L. Mencken

"And if we now cast our eyes over the nations of the earth, we shall find that,

instead of possessing the pure religion of the Gospel, they may be divided

either into infidels, who deny the truth; or politicians who make religion a

stalking horse for their ambition; or professors, who walk in the trammels of

orthodoxy, and are more attentive to traditions and ordinances of men than to

the oracles of truth." --Samuel Adams

"The virtuous need but few laws; for it is not the law which determines their

actions, but their actions which determine the law." –Theophrastus

"What, then, has become of that part of the constitution which declares ours

to be a government of laws, and not of men?" --Attorney General Sullivan,

1928

"A compromise which results in a half-step toward evil is all wrong." --

Theodore Roosevelt

"How vain it is to sit down to write when you have not stood up to live." --

Henry David Thoreau

"There are so many congressmen and senators here [in Washington, D.C.], I

don't know whether to tell a joke or pass a bill...as if there was a difference." --

Bob Hope

"It was not for societies or states, that Christ died, but for men. ... I believe in

Christianity as I believe that the Sun has risen, not only because I see it, but

because by it I see everything else." --C.S. Lewis

"How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young,

compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the

weak and strong. Because someday in life you will have been all of these." --

George Washington Carver



In a completely rational society, the best of us would aspire to be teachers

and the rest of us would have to settle for something less, because passing

civilization along from one generation to the next ought to be the highest

honor and the highest responsibility anyone could have." Lee Iacocca

"If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a

hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory

gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor

yourself, you will succumb in every battle." --Sun Tzu (6th century B.C.

Chinese general) in "The Art of War"



"The art of being wise is the art of knowing what to overlook." --William James

"Thou hast commanded that an ill-regulated mind should be its own

punishment." --Saint Augustine

The devil's boots don't creak." --Scottish Proverb

"The streets of hell are paved with good intentions." --Mark Twain



"Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some

blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can.

Tomorrow is a new day; begin it well and serenely and with too high a spirit to

be cumbered with your old nonsense." --Ralph Waldo Emerson



"The preservation of the sacred fire of liberty, and the destiny of the

republican model of government, are justly considered as deeply, perhaps as

finally, staked on the experiment entrusted to the hands of the American

People." -- George Washington First Inaugural Address, April 30, 1789









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"When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers,

let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers

'just men who will rule in the fear of God.' The preservation of a republican

government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; If the citizens

neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will

soon be corrupted; laws will be made not for the public good so much as for

the selfish or local purposes; Corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to

execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men;

and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a Republican

government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be

because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to

make and administer the laws." --Noah Webster



"Of all the dispositions and habits which lead to political prosperity, Religion

and morality are indispensable supports. In vain would that man claim the

tribute of Patriotism, who should labor to subvert these great Pillars of human

happiness -- these firmest props of the duties of Men and citizens." George

Washington Farewell Address, September 19, 1796:

Baseball is 90% mental, the other half is physical. -- Yogi Berra – 1963,

baseball mgr

I didn't really say everything I said. -- Yogi Berra

It ain't over till it's over. -- Yogi Berra

No one goes there nowadays, it's too crowded. -- Yogi Berra

Nothing is like it seems, but everything is exactly like it is -- Yogi Berra

The future ain't what it used to be. -- Yogi Berra

This is like deja vu all over again. -- Yogi Berra

When you come to a fork in the road, take it. -- Yogi Berra



If the fans don't wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop 'em. -- Yogi

Berra, as quoted by Joe Garagiola on the Jack Paar show, NBC 1963

You can observe a lot just by watching. -- Yogi Berra, Berra's Law



Men willingly believe what they wish. -- Julius Caesar, De Bello Gallico 50 BC

Veni, vidi, vici. [I came, I saw, I conquered] -- Julius Caesar, from Suetonius,

Lives of the Caesars

Have patience awhile; slanders are not long-lived. Truth is the child of time;

erelong she shall appear to vindicate thee. -- Immanuel Kant



Science is organized knowledge. Wisdom is organized life. -- Immanuel Kant

"The centralization of power in Washington, which nearly all members of

Congress deplore in their speech and then support by their votes, steadily

increases." --Calvin Coolidge

"The point to remember is that what the government gives it must first take

away." --John Strider Coleman



Observation more than books, experience rather than persons, are the prime

educators. -- Alcott, Amos Bronson – American philosopher - (1799 - 1888)

The roots of education are bitter, but the fruit is sweet -- Aristotle



Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity. -- Aristotle



The proof that you know something is that you are able to teach it. -- Aristotle

All men by nature desire to know. -- Aristotle

The hardest job kids face today is learning good manners without seeing any.

-- Astaire, Fred

Sometimes when learning comes before experience it doesn't make sense

right away. -- Bach, Richard

Universities incline wits to sophistry and affectation -- Bacon, Sir Francis

If a man is a fool, you don't train him out of being a fool by sending him to

university. You merely turn him into a trained fool, ten times more dangerous. -

- Bagley, Desmond







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An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always

turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious,

mendacious - just dead wrong. -- Baker, Russell Wayne

Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a lost tradition. -- Barzun,

Jacques



The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to

think - rather to improve our minds, so as to enable us to think for ourselves,

than to load the memory with thoughts of other men. -- Beattie, Bill

A good education is not so much one which prepares a man to succeed in

the world, as one which enables him to sustain a failure. -- Bell, Bernard

Iddings

To bring up a child in the way he should go, travel that way yourself once in a

while. -- Billings, Josh

Knowledge is like money: the more he gets, the more he craves. -- Billings,

Josh

It is possible to store the mind with a million facts and still be entirely

uneducated -- Bourne, Alec

It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot, irreverence

to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.

-- Bronowski, Jacob

Education makes a people easy to lead, but difficult to drive; easy to govern

but impossible to enslave. -- Brougham, Baron Henry Peter

The best teacher is the one who suggests rather than dogmatizes, and

inspires his listener with the wish to teach himself. -- Bulwer-Lytton, Edward

Robert



If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure

peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity; it must

be known that we are at all times ready for war." --George Washington

"Never exceed your rights, and they will soon become unlimited." --Jean

Jacques Rousseau

"None can love freedom heartily, but good men; the rest love not freedom, but

license." --John Milton

"The worst lesson that can be taught to a man is to rely upon others and to

whine over his sufferings." --Theodore Roosevelt

"We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office."

–Aesop

"Politics sure is a great character builder. You have to take a referendum to

see what your convictions are for that day." --Will Rogers

A wise and frugal government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another;

which shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and

improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned - This

is the sum of good government -- Thomas Jefferson, first inaugural address, 3/4/1801.



bushido - code of samurai: Look up 7 principles









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Legend for Category & Idea Keywords

0 Overall

010 Reality

012 Truth Principle, Paradox

014 Good Evil, Ideals,

016 Order Diversity, Chaos, Change

017 Cause Luck, Opportunity, Fate

018 Life Birth, death



030 Creation Creation, Nature, Animals, Space, Time

032 Time Beginning, Ending, Past, Future, Age,

034 Space Universe, Earth, Infinity

036 Nature Plants, Animals



050 Meaning purpose

052 Value

054 Goals

056 Happiness Joy, Hope (optimism), Worry



060 Motives desire

Money poverty, wealth,

Power Control

Honor Success, failure, rewards (popularity)

Pleasure Fun, Comfort,

Beauty

Attitude Perspective, Expectations, Wonder, Gratitude, Humor



100 Humanity

110 Nature

112 freewill rights, equality

114 sin corruption,



130 Development growth, change (reform), progress, adapt

132 Trial adversity, suffering, risk, sacrifice, risk, temptation

134 Experience habit,

136 Maturity

138 Excellence ability, quality,



150 Psyche conscience

Feeling Emotion, fear,

Drive passion, will, motivation

Temper Personality, Confidence, Self Concept



160 Mind

Think curiosity, learn, idea, intelligence,

Understand know, opinion,

Reason logic, analyze, evaluate, criticize

Imagine creative, innovate,

Wisdom vision



170 Body

Health Food

Fitness Endurance, agility, sports

Senses sex







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180 Action

Initiate bold, proactive

Solve decide

Do create, apply, work



200 Religion & Values

Love Compassion (Empathy), Kindness, Charity (Generosity, Service), Respect

God Prayer, Character, Miracles

Salvation Law, Judgment, Mercy, Fate, Rewards, Immortal (eternity), heaven, hell

Peace Faith, Hope,

Character (Virtues, ethics), Integrity(Honesty), Responsibility (Reliable, Duty), Forgiveness (Tolerant),

Courage, Self Control, Humility, Persevere, Patience, Frugal

180 Vices Pride, Anger, Greed, Gossip, Lying, Hate, Jealousy, Laziness, Prejudice, Revenge, Lies,



230 Christianity Apology, Bible, Church, Jesus,

290 Other religions Islam, Buddism, Taoism, Hindu, Atheism

300 Social sciences,

sociology

Organization authority, teams,

Relationship friends, trust, advice, help, conflict, Encourage,

Leadership Manage, Inspire

Family Marriage, Parents, Children, Family

320 Political science Basis, Congress, Corrupt, Lifespan, Debt, Foreign, Forms, Hope, Humor, Involve, Leaders,

Liberty, Open, Parties, Patriot, Politics, Power, Rights, Taxes, Treaties, Virtue, Welfare,

Custom, Tyranny, Peace, democracy, justice

330 Economics Markets,

340 Law Humor, Justice, Lawyers, Pervert, Limits, Mercy, Moral, Paradox, Punish

350 Public admin & military Military

370 Education Purpose, Balance, Inspire, Values, Teacher, University, Policy, schools

380 Business profit

400 Language Communicate, listen, speak

500 Science

510 Mathematics

520 Astronomy

530 Physics

540 Chemistry

570 Biology & life sciences

600 Technology

610 Medicine

700 Arts

800 Literature Books, Movies, Music, Humor, Poetry

900 History

910 USA Basis, Destiny, Founders, Freedom, Future, History, Principles, Purpose, Spirit, Values



920 Biography & genealogy

999 Unknown









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