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"Anyone can rat, but it takes a certain amount of ingenuity to re-rat. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"It is necessary to have party organization if we are to have effective and efficient government. The only difference between a mob and a trained army is organization, and the only difference between a disorganized country and one that has the advantage of a wise and sound government is fundamentally a question of organization. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised   

"You have despoiled churches. You have threatened every corporation and endowment in the country. You have examined into everybodys affairs. You have criticised every profession and vexed every trade. No one is certain of his property, and nobody knows what duties he may have to perform to-morrow. This is the policy of confiscation as compared with that of concurrent endowment. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised   

"In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace. "

Clay, Henry on uncategorised   

"If I may I would like to recite the Pledge of Allegiance and give you a definition for each word. Ime, an individual, a committee of one. Pledgededicate all of my worldly goods to give without self-pity. Allegiancemy love and my devotion. To the Flagour standard, Old Glory, a symbol of freedom. Wherever she waves, there is respect because your loyalty has given her a dignity that shouts freedom is everybodys job. Of the Unitedthat means that we have all come together. Statesindividual communities that have united into 48 great states, 48 individual communities with pride and dignity and purpose, all divided with imaginary boundaries, yet united to a common purpose, and thats love for country. Of America. And to the Republica state in which sovereign power is invested in representatives chosen by the people to govern. And government is the people and its from the people to the leaders, not from the leaders to the people. For which it stands. One nationmeaning, so blessed by God. Indivisibleincapable of being divided. With libertywhich is freedom and the right of power to live ones own life without threats or fear or some sort of retaliation. And justiceThe principle or quality of dealing fairly with others. For allwhich means its as much your country as it is mine. "

Skelton, Red on uncategorised   

"Nothing in the World can take the place of persistence. Talent will not; nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not; the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination are omnipotent. The slogan press on has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race. "

Coolidge, Calvin on uncategorised   

"We should never despair, our Situation before has been unpromising and has changed for the better, so I trust, it will again. If new difficulties arise, we must only put forth New Exertions and proportion our Efforts to the exigency of the times. "

Washington, George on uncategorised   

"Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man. "

Poe, Edgar Allan on uncategorised   

"There is a destiny that makes us brothers:None goes his way alone:All that we send into the lives of othersComes back onto our own. "

Markham, Edwin on uncategorised   

"Never give in, never give in, never, never, never, neverin nothing, great or small, large or pettynever give in except to convictions of honour and good sense. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"We shall fight on the beaches, we shall fight on the landing grounds, we shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in Gods good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised
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"By his father he is English, by his mother he is Americanto my mind the blend which makes the perfect man. "

Twain, Mark on uncategorised   

"We are all imperfect. We can not expect perfect government. "

Taft, William Howard on uncategorised   

"I never expect to see a perfect work from imperfect man. "

Hamilton, Alexander on uncategorised   

"Speak not too well of one who scarce will knowHimself transfigured in its roseate glow;Say kindly of him what is, chiefly, true,Remembering always he belongs to you;Deal with him as a truant, if you will,But claim him, keep him, call him brother still!"

Holmes, Oliver Wendell on uncategorised   

"No one can be perfectly free till all are free; no one can be perfectly moral till all are moral; no one can be perfectly happy till all are happy. "

Spencer, Herbert on uncategorised   

"No democracy has ever long survived the failure of its adherents to be ready to die for it. My own conviction is this, the people must either go on or go under. "

George, David Lloyd on uncategorised   

"No People can be bound to acknowledge and adore the invisible hand, which conducts the Affairs of men more than the People of the United States. Every step, by which they have advanced to the character of an independent nation, seems to have been distinguished by some token of providential agency. "

Washington, George on uncategorised   

"No man is an island, entire of itself; every man is a piece of the continent, a part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less, as well as if a promontory were, as well as if a manor of thy friends or of thine own were: any mans death diminishes me, because I am involved in mankind, and therefore never send to know for whom the bells tolls; it tolls for thee. "

Donne, John on uncategorised
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"Where there is no vision, the people perish. "

Bible on uncategorised   

"I can not wish you success in your effort to reject the treaty because while it may win the fight it may destroy our cause. My plan cannot fail if the people are with us and we ought not to succeed unless we do have the people with us. "

Bryan, William Jennings on uncategorised   

"I am a child of the House of Commons. I was brought up in my fathers house to believe in democracy. Trust the peoplethat was his message. "

Churchill, Winston on uncategorised   

"Your people, sir, is nothing but a great beast!"

Hamilton, Alexander on uncategorised   

"Would yee both eat your cake, and have your cake?"

Heywood, John on uncategorised   

"The mobs of great cities add just so much to the support of pure government, as sores do to the strength of the human body. It is the manners and spirit of a people which preserve a republic in vigor. A degeneracy in these is a canker which soon eats to the heart of its laws and constitution. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"A sense of this necessity, and a submission to it, is to me a new and consolatory proof that wherever the people are well informed they can be trusted with their own government; that whenever things get so far wrong as to attract their notice, they may be relied on to set them to rights. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"The President to-night has a dream:He was in a party of plain people, and, as it became known who he was, they began to comment on his appearance. One of them said:He is a very common-looking man. The President replied:The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is the reason he makes so many of them. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"It is not enough just to be for peace. The point is, what can we do about it?"

Nixon, Richard M. on uncategorised   

"There are people in our society who should be separated and discarded. I think its one of the tendencies of the liberal community to feel that every person in a nation of over 200 million people can be made into a productive citizen. Im realist enough to believe this cant be. Were always going to have our prisons, were always going to have our places of preventive detention for psychopaths, and were always going to have a certain number of people in our community who have no desire to achieve or who have no desire to even fit in an amicable way with the rest of society. And these people should be separated from the community, not in a callous way but they should be separated as far as any idea that their opinions shall have any effect on the course we follow. "

Agnew, Spiro T. on uncategorised   

"So let us here resolve that Dag Hammarskjold did not live, or die, in vain. Let us call a truce to terror. Let us invoke the blessings of peace. And, as we build an international capacity to keep peace, let us join in dismantling the national capacity to wage war. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised   

"With malice toward none; with charity for all; with firmness in the right, as God gives us to see the right, let us strive on to finish the work we are in; to bind up the nations wounds; to care for him who shall have borne the battle, and for his widow, and his orphanto do all which may achieve and cherish a just, and a lasting peace, among ourselves, and with all nations. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised
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"I like to believe that people, in the long run, are going to do more to promote peace than our governments. Indeed, I think that people want peace so much that one of these days governments had better get out of the way and let them have it. "

Eisenhower, Dwight D. on uncategorised   

"Peace with all nations, and the right which that gives us with respect to all nations, are our object. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"That peace, safety, and concord may be the portion of our native land, and be long enjoyed by our fellow-citizens, is the most ardent wish of my heart, and if I can be instrumental in procuring or preserving them, I shall think I have not lived in vain. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"Yes, God and the politicians willing, the United States can declare peace upon the world, and win it. "

Culbertson, Ely on uncategorised   

"At present the peace of the world has been preserved, not by statesmen, but by capitalists. "

Disraeli, Benjamin on uncategorised   

"If this nation is to be wise as well as strong, if we are to achieve our destiny, then we need more new ideas for more wise men reading more good books in more public libraries. These libraries should be open to allexcept the censor. We must know all the facts and hear all the alternatives and listen to all the criticisms. Let us welcome controversial books and controversial authors. For the Bill of Rights is the guardian of our security as well as our liberty. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised   

"Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will toward men. "

Bible on uncategorised   

"They have healed also the hurt of the daughter of my people slightly, saying, Peace, peace; when there is no peace. "

Bible on uncategorised   

"When things are investigated, then true knowledge is achieved; when true knowledge is achieved, then the will becomes sincere; when the will is sincere, then the heart is set right ; when the heart is set right, then the personal life is cultivated; when the personal life is cultivated, then the family life is regulated; when the family life is regulated, then the national life is orderly; and when the national life is orderly, then there is peace in this world. "

Confucius on uncategorised
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