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"So I became a newspaperman. I hated to do it but I couldnt find honest employment. "

Twain, Mark on uncategorised   

"As one lamp lights another, nor grows less,So nobleness enkindleth nobleness. "

Lowell, James Russell on uncategorised   

"What a curious picture it is to find man, homo sapiens, of divine origin, we are told, seriously considering going underground to escape the consequences of his own folly. With a little wisdom and foresight, surely it is not yet necessary to forsake life in the fresh air and in the warmth of the sunlight. What a paradox if our own cleverness in science should force us to live underground with the moles. "

Fulbright, J. William on uncategorised   

"I generalized rashly: That is what kills political writing, this absurd pretence that you are delivering a great utterance. You never do. You are just a puzzled man making notes about what you think. You are not building the Pantheon, then why act like a graven image? You are drawing sketches in the sand which the sea will wash away. "

Lippmann, Walter on uncategorised   

"But let me beseech you, Sir, not to let this letter get into a newspaper. Tranquillity, at my age, is the supreme good of life. I think it a duty, and it is my earnest wish, to take no further part in public affairs. The abuse of confidence by publishing my letters has cost me more than all other pains. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"For the newspaper is in all literalness the bible of democracy, the book out of which a people determines its conduct. It is the only serious book most people read. It is the only book they read every day. "

Lippmann, Walter on uncategorised   

"The basis of our governments being the opinion of the people, the very first object should be to keep that right; and were it left to me to decide whether we should have a government without newspapers, or newspapers without a government, I should not hesitate a moment to prefer the latter. But I should mean that every man should receive those papers and be capable of reading them. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised   

"I well believe it, to unwilling ears;None love the messenger who brings bad news. "

Sophocles on uncategorised   

"For want of a Nail the Shoe was lost; for want of a Shoe the Horse was lost; and for want of a Horse the Rider was lost; being overtaken and slain by the Enemy, all for want of Care about a Horse-shoe Nail. "

Franklin, Benjamin on uncategorised   

"The one great poem of New England is her Sunday. "

Beecher, Henry Ward on uncategorised   

"There is good news tonight. "

Heatter, Gabriel on uncategorised   

"Some recent work by E. Fermi and L. Szilard, which has been communicated to me in manuscript, leads me to expect that the element uranium may be turned into a new and important source of energy in the immediate future. Certain aspects of the situation seem to call for watchfulness and, if necessary, quick action on the part of the Administration. This new phenomenon would also lead to the construction of bombs, and it is conceivablethough much less certainthat extremely powerful bombs of a new type may thus be constructed. A single bomb of this type, carried by boat or exploded in a port, might very well destroy the whole port together with some of the surrounding territory. However, such bombs might very well prove to be too heavy for transportation by air. "

Einstein, Albert on uncategorised   

"Not gold but only men can makeA people great and strong;Men who for truth and honors sakeStand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep,Who dare while others flyThey build a nations pillars deepAnd lift them to the sky. "

Emerson, Ralph Waldo on uncategorised   

"Great nations write their autobiographies in three manuscripts, the book of their deeds, the book of their words and the book of their art. Not one of these books can be understood unless we read the two others, but of the three the only trustworthy one is the last. "

Ruskin, John on uncategorised   

"Happy are all free peoples, too strong to be dispossessed. But blessed are those among nations who dare to be strong for the rest!"

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett on uncategorised   

"The plea of good intentions is not one that can be allowed to have much weight in passing historical judgment upon a man whose wrong-headedness and distorted way of looking at things produced, or helped to produce, such incalculable evil; there is a wide political applicability in the remark attributed to a famous Texan, to the effect that he might, in the end, pardon a man who shot him on purpose, but that he would surely never forgive one who did so accidentally. "

Roosevelt, Theodore on uncategorised   

"We must not inquire too curiously into motives. they are apt to become feeble in the utterance: the aroma is mixed with the grosser air. We must keep the germinating grain away from the light. "

Eliot, George on uncategorised   

"If the radiance of a thousand suns were to burst forth at once in the sky, that would be like the splendour of the Mighty One. I am mighty, world-destroying Time"

Bhagavad Gita on uncategorised   

"All that I am, or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. "

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"Dreadful will be the day when the world becomes contented, when one great universal satisfaction spreads itself over the world. Sad will be the day for every man when he becomes absolutely contented with the life that he is living, with the thoughts that he is thinking, with the deeds that he is doing, when there is not forever beating at the doors of his soul some great desire to do something larger which he knows that he was meant and made to do because he is a child of God. "

Brooks, Phillips on uncategorised   

"So fleet the works of men, back to their earth again;Ancient and holy things fade like a dream. "

Kingsley, Charles on uncategorised   

"It is said an Eastern monarch once charged his wise men to invent him a sentence, to be ever in view, and which should be true and appropriate in all times and situations. They presented him the words: And this, too, shall pass away. How much it expresses! How chastening in the hour of pride!how consoling in the depth of affliction!"

Lincoln, Abraham on uncategorised   

"At thirty, man suspects himself a fool;Knows it at forty, and reforms his plan;At fifty, chides his infamous delay,Pushes his prudent purpose to resolve;In all the magnanimity of thoughtResolves, and re-resolves; then dies the same. And why? Because he thinks himself immortal. All men think all men mortal but themselves. "

Young, Edward on uncategorised   

"Ethics, too, are nothing but reverence for life. That is what gives me the fundamental principle of morality, namely, that good consists in maintaining, promoting, and enhancing life, and that destroying, injuring, and limiting life are evil. "

Schweitzer, Albert on uncategorised   

"Dont strew me with roses after Im dead. When Death claims the light of my brow,No flowers of life will cheer me: insteadYou may give me my roses now!"

Healey, Thomas F. on uncategorised   

"Faded the flower and all its budded charms,Faded the sight of beauty from my eyes,Faded the shape of beauty from my arms,Faded the voice, warmth, whiteness, paradise!Vanishd unseasonably "

Keats, John on uncategorised   

"Dante once said that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who in a period of moral crisis maintain their neutrality. "

Kennedy, John F. on uncategorised
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"Even in war moral power is to physical as three parts out of four. "

Napoleon III on uncategorised   

"For what end shall we be connected with men, of whom this is the character and conduct? Is it, that we may see our wives and daughters the victims of legal prostitution; soberly dishonoured; speciously polluted; the outcasts of delicacy and virtue, and the lothing of God and man?"

Dwight, Timothy on uncategorised   

"He who tampers with the currency robs labor of its bread. "

Webster, Daniel on uncategorised   

"ihave often noticed thatancestors never boastof the descendants who boastof ancestors i wouldrather start a family thanfinish one blood will tell but oftenit tells too much"

Marquis, Don on uncategorised   

"The best way to destroy the capitalist system is to debauch the currency. "

Lenin, Vladimir Ilyich on uncategorised   

"In truth, the gold standard is already a barbarous relic. "

Keynes, John Maynard on uncategorised   

"All the perplexities, confusions, and distresses in America arise, not from defects in their constitution or confederation, not from a want of honor or virtue, so much as from downright ignorance of the nature of coin, credit, and circulation. "

Adams, John on uncategorised   

"If the American people ever allow private banks to control the issuance of their currency, first by inflation and then by deflation, the banks and corporations that will grow up around them will deprive the people of all their property until their children will wake up homeless on the continent their fathers conquered. "

Jefferson, Thomas on uncategorised
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"Things won are done, joys soul lies in the doing. "

Shakespeare, William on uncategorised   

"A conscientious man would be cautious how he dealt in blood. "

Burke, Edmund on uncategorised   

"Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper, is always a virtue; but moderation in principle, is a species of vice. "

Paine, Thomas on uncategorised   

"If we work upon marble, it will perish; if we work on brass, time will efface it. If we rear temples, they will crumble to dust. But if we work on mens immortal minds, if we impress on them high principles, the just fear of God, and love for their fellow-men, we engrave on those tablets something which no time can efface, and which will brighten and brighten to all eternity. "

Webster, Daniel on uncategorised   

"Where is it written in the Constitution, in what article or section is it contained, that you may take children from their parents, and parents from their children, and compel them to fight the battles of any war in which the folly or the wickedness of government may engage it?"

Webster, Daniel on uncategorised