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Make mistakes of ambition and not mistakes of sloth. Develop the strength to do bold things, not to suffer.
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
I'm reverent toward my sources. History is a team sport, and references are how you support your teammates.
If the Black woman is a queen, and I believe that she is, why would I settle for something less than royal?
Life is for action, and if we desire to know anything, we must make up our minds to be ignorant about much.
We all nurture impulses which promise freedom from the demands of others, even if that freedom means death.
Many who seem to be struggling with adversity are happy; many, amid great affluence, are utterly miserable.
The lust of dominion burns with a flame so fierce as to overpower all other affections of the human breast.
Few things are brought to a successful issue by impetuous desire, but most by calm and prudent forethought.
Strive for that greatness of spirit that measures life not by its disappointments but by its possibilities.
I insist that the object of all true education is not to make men carpenters, it is to make carpenters men.
If men are to respect each other for what they are, they must cease to respect each other for what they own.
The principle of equality does not destroy the imagination, but lowers its flight to the level of the earth.
There is no more dangerous thing for a democracy than a foreign policy based on presidential preventive war.
Troubles impending always seem worse than troubles surmounted, but this does not prove that they really are.
If wisdom in government eludes us, perhaps courage could substitute-the moral courage to terminate mistakes.
More than a code of manners in war and love, Chivalry was a moral system, governing the whole of noble life.
The intellectual debility of contemporary conservatism is indicated by its silence on all important matters.
The most promising words ever written on the maps of human knowledge are terra incognita, unknown territory.
Now, more than ever, the choice between Obama and Romney will be which one do you want to ruin your country?
History has scarcely deigned to notice [Libius Severus's] birth, his elevation, his character, or his death.
[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.
Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
Analogies are figures intended to serve as fatal weapons if they succeed, and as innocent toys if they fail.
No man means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
No one means all he says, and yet very few say all they mean, for words are slippery and thought is viscous.
The Colchians, Ethiopians and Egyptians have thick lips, broad nose, woolly hair and they are burnt of skin.
Dreams in general take their rise from those incidents which have most occupied the thoughts during the day.
A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.
I shall make it my chief business to see that the [royal] executive power has its place in the constitution.
Since war itself is the most extreme form of terrorism, a war on terrorism is profoundly self-contradictory.
The new knowledge has not yet settled in culture. It has not yet been integrated in a new cosmic conception.
If I haven't made myself clear, this worrisome chain of events describes the game of the nineteenth century.
Christians were regarded as separated from society and therefore destructive of the Greco-Roman way of life.
Too many Christians want to change the world not because they love the world but because they hate the world
Jesus invested everything he had in a team. The Bible knows nothing about solo ministry, only team ministry.
The old Romans all wished to have a king over them because they had not yet tasted the sweetness of freedom.
It is easy at any moment to resign the possession of a great fortune; to acquire it is difficult and arduous
The most wicked criminals have God on their lips at all times, for God is the only one who can stomach them.
Anyone who writes anything on any subject is standing on the shoulders of 900 people who've come before you.
[Barack] Obama has little, if any, principles except to aggrandize and make himself more and more important.
If being rightwing is thinking that Karl Marx's doctrine was a catastrophe for humanity, then I'm rightwing.
In our own days we have seen no princes accomplish great results save those who have been accounted miserly.
In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.
Only those means of security are good, are certain, are lasting, that depend on yourself and your own vigor.
Transience is one of the fundamental characteristics both of the human condition and of the political order.
The important thing in life is not victory but combat; it is not to have vanquished but to have fought well.
Despite its flaws, the American electoral system has produced Lincoln, the two Roosevelts, and Harry Truman.
I think experience is a terribly overrated idea when it comes to thinking about who should become president.
We are part of a country that outshines those that have gone before us and most of those in existence today.