Quotes of All Topics . Occasions . Authors
We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
Children learn more from what you are than what you teach.
A classic is a book that doesn't have to be written again.
Education must not simply teach work - it must teach Life.
A great democratic revolution is taking place in our midst.
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make
Man's true end is to glorify God and to enjoy Him for ever.
Law describes the way things would work if men were angels.
He was, albeit only briefly, the hero of the world's hopes.
I used to shoot up and throw up, now I suit up and show up.
You can't lead your troops if your troops do not trust you.
in extreme circumstances I think embarrassment is a luxury.
One half who graduate from college never read another book.
He too serves a certain purpose who only stands and cheers.
Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.
Envy is so natural to human kind, that it cannot but arise.
The gods loves to punish whatever is greater than the rest.
Tell Greece that her spring has been taken out of her year.
The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance.
You only live a short time... and you are dead a long time.
A man of courage never needs weapons, but he may need bail.
It is never a waste of time to study the history of a word.
Action without study fatal. Study without action is futile.
The things we obsess about today, in 40 years seem trivial.
It is not titles that honor men, but men that honor titles.
The Russian myths of the Second World War are still intact.
If truth is the main casualty in war, ambiguity is another.
The role of third parties is to sting like a bee, then die.
Nowadays, everyone seems to have a blog that finds readers.
Washington, not Jefferson, freed his slaves upon his death.
Victor and vanquished never unite in substantial agreement.
The whole project of European Union is one in deep trouble.
The history of literature is the history of the human mind.
The last thing a political party gives up is its vocabulary.
He [Napoleon] was as great as a man can be without morality.
This man, Comrades, has a nice smile, but he has iron teeth.
To begin impatiently is the worst mistake a writer can make.
For history is to the nation as memory is to the individual.
Christianity in its ideas was never the art of the possible.
Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practiced
Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad with power.
The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.
The missiles come first, and the justifications come second.
The fortune of nations has often depended on accidents . . .
A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood.
Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
Remember that with her clothes a woman puts off her modesty.
The ears of men are lesser agents of belief than their eyes.
Man is the child of customs, not the child of his ancestors.
Geometry enlightlens the intellect and sets one's mind right