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The battlefield is cold... it is the lonesomest place which men share together.
Truth is confirmed by inspection and delay; falsehood by haste and uncertainty.
When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
The desire for glory clings even to the best men longer than any other passion.
I have often before now been convinced that a democracy is incapable of empire.
Liberty trains for liberty. Responsibility is the first step in responsibility.
To the real question, How does it feel to be a problem? I answer seldom a word.
A teacher enlarges people in all sorts of ways besides just his subject matter.
If there is to be any proving of our humanity it must be by revolutionary means
Every President reconstructs the Presidency to meet his own psychological needs.
Truth comes to us from the past, then, like gold washed down from the mountains.
The greatest obstacle to international understanding is the barrier of language.
Democracy in our time is more likely to die of indifference than of intolerance.
Planning for the future without a sense of history is like planting cut flowers.
These days I'm probably happiest when I see my two daughters loving one another.
Testing children until they cry is a bad idea. It is an educational malpractice.
War, in its fairest form, implies a perpetual violation of humanity and justice.
Human beings are not efficiently designed for a capitalist system of production.
No man should advocate a course in private that he's ashamed to admit in public.
As History stands, it is a sort of Chinese Play, without end and without lesson.
As the old saw says well: every end does not appear together with its beginning.
There is nothing more foolish, nothing more given to outrage than a useless mob.
I once worked as a salesman and was very independent. I took orders from no one.
Woman's happiness consists in obeying; she objects to a man who yields too much.
Most national holidays in most countries rest on selective memories of the past.
A gentleman is mindful no less of the freedom of others than of his own dignity.
Men shrink less from offending one who inspires love than one who inspires fear.
Benefits should be granted little by little, so that they may be better enjoyed.
The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.
In literature and in life we ultimately pursue, not conclusions, but beginnings.
So as you go into battle, remember your ancestors and remember your descendants.
It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
Bottling up his malice to be suppressed and brought out with increased violence.
Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.
A bitter jest, when it comes too near the truth, leaves a sharp sting behind it.
The strong do what they have to do and the weak accept what they have to accept.
And where the rewards for merit are greatest, there are found the best citizens.
Where there is no history of struggle after an uprising, the living memory dies.
It is the stars, it is the ancient stars, it is the young and everlasting stars!
Hope was always out ahead of fact, possibility obscured the outlines of reality.
Are writers reporters, prophets, crazies, entertainers, preachers, judges, what?
In politics a community of hatred is almost always the foundation of friendships.
The aim of all education is, or should be, to teach people to educate themselves.
It is Christian culture that has created Western man and the Western way of life.
It is absurd to entrust the defense of a country to people who own nothing in it.
Over the door of the library in Thebes is the inscription "Medicine for the soul.
The historian must have some conception of how men who are not historians behave.
We live in a media world simultaneously obsessed with technology and personality.
We fight to great disadvantage when we fight with those who have nothing to lose.
In nine times out of ten, the slanderous tongue belongs to a disappointed person.