Quotes
Quotes to inspire and reflect
Women see better than men. Men see lazily, if they do not expect to act. Women see quite without any wish to act.
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The searcher’s eye / Not seldom finds more than he wished to find.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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The Eye altering alters all.
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Why should there not be a patient confidence in the ultimate justice of the people? Is there any better or equal hope in the world?
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While the people retain their virtue and vigilance, no administration, by any extreme of wickedness or folly, can very seriously injure the government in the short space of four years.
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The efforts of governments alone will never be enough. In the end, the people must choose and the people must help themselves.
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We hold the view that the people make the best judgment in the long run.
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The populace drag down the gods to their own level.
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The public always prefers to be reassured. There are those whose job this is. There are only too many.
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Civilization exists precisely so that there may be no masses but rather men alert enough never to constitute masses.
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The instinct of the people is right.
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Peace hath higher tests of manhood / Than battle ever knew.
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The deliberate aim at Peace very easilv passes into its bastard substitute, Anaesthesia.
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It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.
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Peace is a virtual, mute, sustained victory of potential powers against probable greeds.
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Peace, like war, can succeed only where there is a will to enforce it, and where there is available power to enforce it.
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It is better to have a war for justice than peace in injustice.
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Because of the realities of human nature, perfect peace is achieved in two places only: in the grave and at the typewriter.
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Peace demands more, not less, from a people. Peace lacks the clarity of purpose and the cadence of war. War is scripted: peace is improvisation.
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Now we suffer the woes of long peace. Luxury, more savage / Than war, has smothered us, avenging the world we ravage.
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My aunt once said the world would never find peace until men fell at their women’s feet and asked for forgiveness.
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Mutual cowardice keeps us in peace.
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The passions that incline men to peace are fear of death, desire of such things as are necessary to commodious living, and a hope by their industry to obtain them.
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The name of peace is sweet and the thing itself good, but between peace and slavery there is the greatest difference.
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Peace. The upland serenity of high altitude, the openness of grassland without indigenous bush or trees; the greening, yellowing or silver-browning that prevailed, according to season.
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Peace is liberty in tranquillity.
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He knows peace who has forgotten desire.
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He that payeth beforehand shall have his work ill done.
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One pays for everything, the trick is not to pay too much of anything for anything.
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In nature nothing can be given, all things are sold.
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In every work / a reward added makes the pleasure twice as great.
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Always pay; for first or last you must pay your entire debt.
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Is not a patron one who looks with unconcern on a man struggling for life in the water, and, when he has reached ground, encumbers him with help?
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Talking of patriotism, what humbug it is; it is a word which always commemorates a robbery.
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To strike freedom of the mind with the fist of patriotism is an old and ugly subtlety.
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Do we wish men to be virtuous? Then let us begin by making them love their country.
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No one loves his country for its size or eminence, but because it’s his own.
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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.
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There can be no fifty-fifty Americanism in this country. There is room here for only hundred per cent Americanism.
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With a good conscience our only sure reward, with history the final judge of our deeds, let us go forth to lead the land we love, asking His blessing and His help, but knowing that here on earth God’s work must truly be our own.
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A person does not belong to a place until there is someone dead under the ground.
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Though patience be a tired mare, yet she will plod.
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A wise man does not try to hurry history. Many wars have been avoided by patience and many have been precipitated by reckless haste.
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We shall sooner have the fowl by hatching the egg than by smashing it.
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Only with winter-patience can we bring / The deep-desired, long-awaited spring.
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Abused patience turns to fury.
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Patience, that blending of moral courage with physical timidity.
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