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- I find the great in this world is not so much where we stand, as in what direction we are moving: To reach the port of heaven, we must sail sometimes with the wind and sometimes against it,-but we must sail, and not drift, nor lie at anchor.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes (1809 - 1894), The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, 1891
- We are stripped bare by the curse of plenty.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965), Lecture, Cleveland, Ohio, February 3, 1932
- As one grows older, one becomes wiser and more foolish.
- Francois de La Rochefoucauld (1613 - 1680), Reflexions ou Sentences et Maximes Morales 1655
- Growing old is no more than a bad habit which a busy man has no time to form.
- Andre Maurois (1885 - 1967), The Art of Living
- To hold the same views at forty as we did at twenty is to have been stupefied for a score of years, and take rank, not as a prophet, but as an unteachable brat, well birched and none the wiser.
- Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 - 1894), Crabbed Age and Youth, 1874
- We have no eternal allies, and we have no perpetual enemies. Our interests are eternal and perpetual, and those interests it is our duty to follow.
- Henry John Temple Palmerston, Remarks in the House of Commons, March 1, 1848
- We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Fireside chat on national defense, May 26, 1940
- We defend and we build a way of life, not for America alone, but for all mankind.
- Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882 - 1945), Fireside chat on national defense, May 26, 1940
- Let the word go forth from this time and place, to friend and foe alike, that the torch has been passed to a new generation of Americans.
- John F. Kennedy (1917 - 1963), Inaugural Adress, January 20, 1961
- For the American people are a very generous people and will forgive almost any weakness, with the possible exception of stupidity.
- Will Rogers (1879 - 1935), The Illiterate Digest, 1924
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