|
#9651 | | It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees.
|
|
#9652 | | It is better to wear chains than to believe you are free, and weight yourself down with invisible chains.
|
|
#9653 | | It is difficult to legislate morality in the absence of moral legislators.
|
|
#9654 | | It is easier to be a "humanitarian" than to render your own country its proper due; it is easier to be a "patriot" than to make your community a better place to live in; it is easier to be a "civic leader" than to treat your own family with loving understanding; for the smaller the focus of attention, the harder the task. -- Sydney J. Harris
|
|
#9655 | | It is easier to fight for one's principles than to live up to them. -- Alfred Adler
|
|
#9656 | | It is enough to make one sympathize with a tyrant for the determination of his courtiers to deceive him for their own personal ends... -- Russell Baker and Charles Peters
|
|
#9657 | | It is impossible to defend perfectly against the attack of those who want to die.
|
|
#9658 | | It is like saying that for the cause of peace, God and the Devil will have a high-level meeting. -- Rev. Carl McIntire, on Nixon's China trip
|
|
#9659 | | It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one's uncles. -- George Bernard Shaw
|
|
#9660 | | It is not the critic who counts, or how the strong man stumbled, or whether the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly, who errs and comes short again and again; who knows the great enthusiasm, the great devotion, and who spends himself in a worthy cause, and if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that he'll never be with those cold and timid souls who never know either victory or defeat. -- Teddy Roosevelt
|
|
|
... ... |