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1. "Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested." - Francis Bacon
2. The best preparation for tomorrow is the right use of today.
3. Any fool can criticize, condemn and complain, and most fools do. -Benjamin Franklin
4. “Oh what a tangled web we weave, when first we practice to deceive.” - Sir Walter Scott
5. A genius, in the wrong job, looks barely average.
6. Don’t worry, for today is the tomorrow that you worried about yesterday.
7. Because we are all human beings, what we don't know, we don't know that we don't know.
8. The wind serves only those who have set their sails.
9. No university ever gave a degree in common sense.
10. Easy Street and the Straight and Narrow do not intersect.
11. "The salvation of the common people of every race and of every land from war or servitude must be established on solid foundations and must be guarded by the readiness of all men and women to die rather than submit to tyranny." - Winston Churchill, Speech at Zurich University (September 19, 1946)
12. A free ride is usually on the wrong road.
13. If you haven’t time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?
14. “Whatever you do, good or bad, people will always have something negative to say” - W.H. Auden
15. "People who criticize the younger generation usually can’t remember who raised it." - anonymous
16. "No hour of life is lost that is spent in the saddle." - Winston Churchill, in "My early life, 1874-1904" (1930)
17. "When I see a bird that walks like a duck and swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, I call that bird a duck." - attributed to James Whitcomb Riley
18. "A man can fail many times, but he isn't a failure until he begins to blame somebody else." - John Burroughs
19. The measure of a person’s life is the spending of it, not the length.
20. The only successful substitute for work is a miracle.
21. "What's terrible is to pretend that second-rate is first-rate. To pretend that you don't need love when you do; or you like your work when you know quite well you're capable of better." - Doris Lessing, in "The Golden Notebook"
22. In the long history of the world, only a few generations have been granted the role of defending freedom in its hour of maximum danger. I do not shrink from this responsibility — I welcome it. I do not believe that any of us would exchange places with any other people or any other generation. - JFK, Inaugural Address
23. "Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past." - George Orwell, in "Nineteen Eighty-Four" (ch. 3)
24. "When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, "This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know," the end result is tyranny and oppression, no matter how holy the motives. Mighty little force is needed to control a man whose mind has been hoodwinked; contrariwise, no amount of force can control a free man, a man whose mind is free. No, not the rack, not fission bombs, not anything — you can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him." - Robert A. Heinlein in "If This Goes On" (1940)
25. "There is no worse tyranny than to force a man to pay for what he does not want merely because you think it would be good for him." - Robert A. Heinlein in "The Moon is a Harsh Mistress" (1966)
26. "The propagandist's purpose is to make one set of people forget that certain other sets of people are human." - Aldous Huxley
27. "Socialism is the philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery." - Winston Churchill, Speech (May 28, 1948) at the Scottish Unionist Conference, Perth, Scotland
28. "Not alone for mighty empire Stretching far o'er land and sea,
Not alone for bounteous harvests, Lift we up our hearts to thee:
Standing in the living present, Memory and hope between,
Lord, we would with deep thanksgiving Praise the most for things unseen.
"Not for battleship and fortress, Not for conquests of the sword,
But for conquests of the spirit Give we thanks to thee, O Lord;
For the heritage of freedom, For the home, the church, the school,
For the open door to manhood In a land the people rule.
"For the armies of the faithful, Souls that passed and left no name;
For the glory that illumines Patriot lives of deathless fame;
For our prophets and apostles, Loyal to the living word,
For all heroes of the spirit, Give we thanks to thee, O Lord.
"God of justice, save the people From the clash of race and creed,
From the strife of class and faction, Make our nation free indeed;
Keep her faith in simple manhood Strong as when her life began,
Till it find its full fruition In the brotherhood of man!"
- William Pierson Merrill, 1909
29. "Who is so deafe or so blinde as is hee
That wilfully will neither heare nor see?"
- John Heywood, Circa 1565. Proverbes, Part ii, Chap. vii
(Old style spelling, as quoted in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, Tenth Edition, p.19)
30. "The art of war is of vital importance to the State. It is a matter of life and death, a road either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can on no account be neglected." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War (c. 514 BC)
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