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- 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 not clothed. This 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. This is not a way of life at all in any true sense. Under the cloud of threatening war, it is humanity hanging from a cross of iron.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969), From a speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, April 16, 1953
- To be able under all circumstances to practice five things constitutes perfect virtue; these five things are gravity, generosity of soul, sincerity, earnestness and kindness.
- Confucius (551 BC - 479 BC)
- Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.
- Alice Thomas Ellis
- When we talk about understanding, surely it takes place only when the mind listens completely-- the mind being your heart, your nerves, your ears- when you give your whole attention to it.
- Krishnamurti
- Folks never understand the folks they hate.
- James Russell Lowell (1819 - 1891)
- One of the sublimest things in the world is plain truth.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- He who esteems trifles for themselves is a trifler; he who esteems them for the conclusions to be drawn from them, or the advantage to which they can be put, is a philosopher.
- Edward Bulwer-Lytton (1803 - 1873)
- A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
- When one has much to put into them, a day has a hundred pockets.
- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844 - 1900)
- We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.
- Henry Ward Beecher (1813 - 1887)
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