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- Though force can protect in emergency, only justice, fairness, consideration and co-operation can finally lead men to the dawn of eternal peace.
- Dwight D. Eisenhower (1890 - 1969)
- The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.
- Edmund Burke (1729 - 1797)
- Knowledge is a comfortable and necessary retreat and shelter for us in advanced age, and if we do not plant it while young, it will give us no shade when we grow old.
- Lord Chesterfield (1694 - 1773)
- Strong feelings do not necessarily make a strong character. The strength of a man is to be measured by the power of the feelings he subdues not by the power of those which subdue him.
- William Carleton
- To shorten winter, borrow some money due in spring.
- W. J. Vogel
- Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.
- Alexander Hodge
- The only stable state is the one in which all men are equal before the law.
- Aristotle (384 BC - 322 BC)
- Whatever we conceive well we express clearly, and words flow with ease.
- Nicolas Boileau (1636 - 1711)
- Any doctrine that will not bear investigation is not a fit tenant for the mind of an honest man.
- Robert Ingersoll (1833 - 1899)
- Familiarity breeds contempt, while rarity wins admiration.
- Apuleius (124 AD - 170 AD)
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