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1. "All warfare is based on deception." - Sun Tzu, The Art of War (c. 514 BC)
2. "According as circumstances are favorable, one should modify one's plans." - Sun Tzu
4. The Ten Cannots:
You cannot bring about prosperity by discouraging thrift.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help little men by tearing down big men.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot establish sound security on borrowed money.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatred.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than you earn.
You cannot build character and courage by destroying men's initiative and independence.
And you cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they can and should do for themselves.
- William John Henry Boetcker (1916) note: This is often misattributed to Abraham Lincoln, probably from a leaflet printed in 1942.
5. The house of every one is to him as his castle and fortress, as well for his defence against injury and violence as for his repose. - SIR EDWARD COKE (1549-1634), Semayne's Case, 5 Rep. 91.
6. [The] truth is incontrovertible. Panic may resent it, ignorance may deride it, malice may distort it, but there it is. - Winston Churchill, Speech in the House of Commons, May 17, 1916
7. "When beggars die, there are no comets seen; The heavens themselves blaze forth the death of princes." - Wm Shakespeare: Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene II
8. "Happy is he to whom truth manifests itself, not in signs and words that fade, but as it actually is. Our opinions, our senses often deceive us and we discern very little." - Thomas a Kempis (c. 1400)
9: “The principles of a free constitution are irrevocably lost, when the legislative power is dominated by the executive.” - Edward Gibbon in "The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire," Volume 1, 6th American Edition (1830), p. 34
10. "If you chase two rabbits, they will both escape." - Anonymous
11. “The weak can never forgive. Forgiveness is the attribute of the strong." - Mohandas Gandhi
12. “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.” - Ralph Waldo Emerson
13. “In three words I can sum up everything I know about life: it goes on.” - Robert Frost
14. “One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most
beautiful.” - Sigmund Freud
15. "No power on earth has a right to take our property from us without our consent." - John Jay, 1st Chief Justice, SCOTUS
16. "The heart of a fool is in his mouth, but the mouth of a wise man is in his heart." - Benjamin Franklin
17. “You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself in any direction you choose.” - Dr. Seuss
18. "It is said that if you know your enemies and know yourself, you will not be imperiled in a hundred battles; if you do not know your enemies but do know yourself, you will win one and lose one; if you do not know your enemies nor yourself, you will be imperiled in every single battle." - Sun Tzu
19. “The problem with the world is that the intelligent people are full of doubts while the stupid ones are full of confidence.” - Charles Bukowski
20. 'Earth is littered with the ruins of empires that believed they were eternal.' - Camille Paglia
21. "Every man should endeavor to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late... It means the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy; that our youth will be trained by Northern schoolteachers; will learn from Northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as traitors, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision... It is said slavery is all we are fighting for, and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this were true, which we deny, slavery is not all our enemies are fighting for. It is merely the pretense to establish sectional superiority and a more centralized form of government, and to deprive us of our rights and liberties." - Maj. General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA, January 2, 1864
22. "Detachment is not that you should own nothing, but that nothing should own you."- Ali ibn abi Talib
23. "Courage is rightly esteemed the first of human qualities because... it is the quality which guarantees all others." - Sir Winston Churchill
24. "It is not given to us to peer into the mysteries of the future. Still, I avow my hope and faith, sure and inviolate, that in the days to come the British and American peoples will for their own safety and for the good of all walk together side by side in majesty, in justice, and in peace." - Winston Churchill, Ending of the speech to a joint session of the United States Congress, Washington, D.C. (26 December 1941).
25. "It is better in prayer to have a heart without words than words without a heart." - Mahatma Gandhi
Either man's work or his own gifts; who best
bear his mild yoke, they serve him best. His state
Is kingly. Thousands at his bidding speed
And post o'er land and ocean without rest;
They also serve who only stand and wait."
- John Milton, c. 1652
27. "So let us wage a glorious struggle against illiteracy, poverty and terrorism, let us pick up our books and our pens, they are the most powerful weapons." - Malala Yousafzai, Pakistani schoolgirl who campaigns for girls' education, speech to United Nations General Assembly, July 12, 2013
28. "Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference." - Mark Twain
29. Principles of thought: 1. Principle of identity: Each thing is the same with itself and different from another. 2. Principle of noncontradiction: Contradictory statements cannot both be true in the same sense at the same time (but they can both be false). 3. Principle of excluded middle: For any proposition, either that proposition is true, or its negation is true. - adapted from Aristotle
30. "An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind." - Mahatma Gandhi
31. "It was the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the season of Darkness, it was the spring of hope, it was the winter of despair, we had everything before us, we had nothing before us, we were all going direct to Heaven, we were all going direct the other way — in short, the period was so far like the present period, that some of its noisiest authorities insisted on its being received, for good or for evil, in the superlative degree of comparison only." - Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities
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