Every gun that is made, every warship launched, every rocket fired, signifies, in the final sense, a theft from those who hunger and are not fed, those who are cold and are not clothed. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the hopes of its children.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower, 1953, a speech to the American Society of Newspaper Editors
The Lord prefers common-looking people. That is why he makes so many of them.
– Abraham Lincoln
Most folks are about as happy as they make their minds up to be.
– Abraham Lincoln
Neither let us be slandered from our duty by false accusations against us, nor frightened from it by menaces of destruction to the Government nor of dungeons to ourselves. LET US HAVE FAITH THAT RIGHT MAKES MIGHT, AND IN THAT FAITH, LET US, TO THE END, DARE TO DO OUR DUTY AS WE UNDERSTAND IT.
– February 27, 1860 – Cooper Union Address
– Abraham Lincoln
The degree of man’s independence, initiative and personal love for his work determines his talent as a worker and his worth as a man There is no substitute for personal dignity There is no standard of personal dignity except independence
Famous Quotes – Ayn Rand
There are interests by the sacrifice of which peace is too dearly purchased. One should never be at peace to the shame of his own soul – to the violation of his integrity or of his allegiance to God.
– Edwin Hubbell Chapin
Life comes with lousy odds. You wouldn’t want to bet on it.
– Tom Stoppard
