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- The conservative in financial circles I have often described as a man who thinks nothing new ought ever to be adopted for the first time.
- Frank A. Vanderlip, From Farm Boy to Financier, chapter 25, 1935
- One of the greatest disservices you can do to a man is to lend him money that he can't pay back.
- Jesse H. Jones, The New York Times Magazine, July 2, 1939
- If we desire to avoid insult, we must be able to repel it; if we desire to secure peace, one of the most powerful instruments of our rising prosperity, it must be known, that we are at all times ready for War.
- George Washington (1732 - 1799), Fifth annual address to Congress, December 13, 1793
- There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act II, scene ii, 1937
- There are some men who lift the age they inhabit, till all men walk on higher ground in that lifetime.
- Maxwell Anderson (1888 - 1959), Valley Forge, Act II, scene ii, 1937
- We can remember minutely and precisely only the things which never really happened to us.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
- There is probably an element of malice in our readiness to overestimate people - we are, as it were, laying up for ourselves the pleasure of later cutting them down to size.
- Eric Hoffer (1902 - 1983), The New York Times Magazine, April 25, 1971
- True patriotism sometimes requires of men to act exactly contrary, at one period, to that which it does at another, and the motive which impels themthe desire to do rightis precisely the same.
- Robert E. Lee (1807 - 1870), Letter to General P. G. T. Beauregard, October 3, 1865
- Yet I am not more sure that my soul lives, than I am that perverseness is one of the primitive impulses of the human heartone of the indivisible primary faculties, or sentiments, which give direction to the character of Man.
- Edgar Allan Poe (1809 - 1849), The Black Cat, 1843
- In a scheme of policy which is devised for a nation, we should not limit our views to its operation during a single year, or even for a short term of years. We should look at its operation for a considerable time, and in war as well as in peace.
- Henry Clay (1777 - 1852)
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