"Patriotism means to stand by the country. It does not mean to stand by the president or any other public official, save exactly to the degree in which he himself stands by the country. It is patriotic to support him insofar as he efficiently serves the country. It is unpatriotic not to oppose him to the exact extent that by inefficiency or otherwise he fails in his duty to stand by the country. In either event, it is unpatriotic not to tell the truth, whether about the president or anyone else." - Theodore Roosevelt
A penny saved, is a penny that goes to the government.
"A man should be both a fox and a liona fox so that he can deal with other foxes; and a lion in case he should fall among wolves." - Niccolo Machiavelli
"Character" may be defined as obedience to one's sense of ought.
To seek wisdom from one's contemporaries is to milk a rock.
"One of the most delicate jobs in life is teaching our children how to avoid hurting other people's feelings without being a liar." - Will Rogers
In a dog eat dog world It is good to be the fastest dog!!!
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world. The unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." - George Bernard Shaw
"Men are not flattered by being shown that there has been a difference of purpose between The Almighty and them. It is a truth which I thought needed to be told." - Abraham Lincoln
"It is wonderful, in the event of a street fight, how few bullets seem to hit the men they are aimed at." - Theodore Roosevelt
The one who insists that it can not be done should never interrupt the one who is doing it.
The first thought of the prepared when danger strikes: "Aha! I thought this might happen some day."
"Both good and bad, and much of both, must be borne in a lifetime spent on this earth in these anxious days." - Beowulf
It is nowise foolish to tilt at windmills, providing you learn to knock them down.
"Liberty without learning is always in peril and learning without liberty is always in vain." - John F. Kennedy
"I believe that every right implies a responsibility; every opportunity, an obligation; every possession, a duty." - John D. Rockefeller
"A proper pacifist is one who will fight to preserve his own right to be a pacifist." - Stewart Edward White
"He who will not risk cannot win." - John Paul Jones
"A just war is, in the long run, far better for a man's soul than the most prosperous peace." - Theodore Roosevelt
"There are plenty of devices for shunning death in every kind of danger if a man sticks at nothing in word and deed. But the difficulty does not lie so much in avoiding death as in dishonor, for she runs faster than death." - Socrates
"We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Charles Swindoll
"The only attitude appropriate to intelligent people is one of objective pessimism, combined with subjective optimism." - Willi Schlamm
"Manners being violent, the wearing of arms was prohibited, but only honest folk conformed to the law, thus facilitating matters for others." - Jusserand, A Literary History of the English-Speaking People from the Origins to the Renaissance, 1895
"I do not believe that all men are created equal, for the best of all possible reasons: because it is not so." - John Hancock
"Men are not virtuous because they enjoy the boon of self-government, rather they enjoy the boon of self-government because they are virtuous enough to earn and keep it." - William Faulkner
"One does not hunt in order to kill; on the contrary, one kills in order to have hunted." - Josè Ortega y Gasset
"Excellence is not fashionable. To be fashionable is to betray lack of confidence in one's own taste and, usually, ignorance of the subject at hand." - Jeff Cooper
One can not have: Too many books, too many wines, or too much ammunition.
The aim of a worthy life is excellence.
Outside the family the soul goes begging.
"In every battle there comes a time when both sides consider themselves beaten. He who then continues to attack wins." - George Patton
"What you believe is more important than what you possess. What you live is more lasting than what you profess. Whom you inspire is more significant than whom you impress." - Wm. Arthur Ward
"When you get right down to the root meaning of the word "succeed" you find that it simply means to follow through." - F. W. Nichol
Life is a grindstone. Whether it grinds you down or polishes you up depends on what you are made of.
"You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift. You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong. You cannot help the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer. You cannot further the brotherhood of man by encouraging class hatred. You cannot not keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn. You cannot build character and courage by taking away man's initiative and independence. You cannot help men permanently by doing what they could and should do for themselves." - Abraham Lincoln
"America is great because her people are good. If the American people cease to be good, America will cease to be great." - Alexis de Tocqueville, 1835
"A strict observance of the law is doubtless one of the highest duties of a good citizen, but not the highest. The laws of necessity, of self preservation, of saving our country when in danger, are of higher obligation. To lose our country by a scrupulous adherence of written law, would be to lose the law itself, with life, liberty, property and all those who are enjoying themselves with us... " - Thomas Jefferson, September 20, 1810, Human Events
"Now is the time that men work quietly in the fields, and women weep softly in the kitchen; the Legislature is in session, and no man's property is safe." - Daniel Webster
If it is worth doing, it is worth doing right.
"A fool must learn by his own experience. I prefer to learn by the experiences of others." - Otto von Bismarck
"God deliver me from my friends! I'll take care of my enemies myself." - Arthur Wellesley, The Iron Duke