Pravda
The world wide nature of our communist program is not mere talk but all embracing & all blood soaked reality.
Text Book
If we could effectively kill the Nat. pride & patriotism of just one generation we will have won that country. Therefore there must be continued propaganda abroad to undermine the loyalty of the citizen in general & the teenagers in particular.
Dmitriy Manuilsky Lenin School for Pol. Warfare—1930s
War to the hilt between communism & capitalism is inevitable. But today we are too weak to strike. Our day will come in 30 or 40 years. First we must lull the capitalist nations to sleep with the greatest overtures of peace & disarmament known in history, and when their guard is dropped, we shall smash them with our clenched fist.
Russian Diplomat
We’ll be over to finish the takeover sooner than you think. You know that a mixed economy is not permanent & you have already mixed so much socialism with your formerly free ec. that you cannot take it back or change. You are coming all the way into full socialism. We don’t have to fight you or urge you. We shall simply wait until you walk voluntarily into our camp.
Alex Solzhenitsyn
At one time there was no comparison between the strength of the U.S.S.R. and yours. Then it became equal to yours. Soon it will be 2 to 1 then 3 & finally it will be 5–1 and it is fully determined to destroy your society.
Former Senator William Benton
We must abolish the ’48 Balkanized units each in turn into scores of hundreds of local dist. so as to compete with Soviet Russia.
ON CHARACTER
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The hero is no braver than an ordinary man—but he is brave 5 min. longer.
Anonymous Quotes
The greatest liar has his believers. If a lie be believed for only an hour it has done its work. Falsehood flies & truth comes limping after; so that when men come to be undeceived it is too late; the tale has had its effect.
Greatness is measured by your kindness, your ed. & intellect. By your modesty. Your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions & prejudices—your real caliber is measured by the consideration and thoughtfulness you have for others.
A gentle[man] always says & does the kindest thing.
Liberty is always dangerous but it’s the safest thing to have.
Man’s capacity for justice makes democracy possible but man’s inclination to injustice makes democracy necessary.
Reality may be a rough road but escape from it is a precipice.
To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men.
Even moderation should not be practiced to excess.
He who would have nothing to do with thorns should never attempt to gather flowers.
People are lonely who build walls instead of bridges.
Just think how happy you’d be if you lost everything you have right now & then got it back.
Swiss Author Henri Frederic Amiel
Truth is violated by falsehood but it is outraged by silence.
Henry Marshall
Out of the ghetto comes an Al Smith, Eddie Cantor, Sam Levinson, Joe Louis, Babe Ruth & a mil. others. They just couldn’t understand that they didn’t have a chance. They just couldn’t be stopped from using disadvantages as advantages. They knew intuitively what Confucius had said, ‘that defeat was not getting knocked down—but in not getting up.’
Robert Browning
Grow old with me—the best is yet to be—the last of life for which the first was made.
Chinese Proverb
The beginning of wisdom is calling things by their right name.
Goethe
If everybody swept his own doorstep the whole world would be clean.
Mao
It is better for a woman to marry a man who loves her than to marry a man she loves.
Thomas Jefferson
HARMONY in the married state is the very 1st object to be aimed at. Happiness by the domestic fireside is the 1st boon of heaven.
State a moral case to a plowman and a Professor. The farmer will decide it as well & often better because he has not been led astray by any artificial rules.
Letter to Grandson Warning Against Disputes with Students:
Keep aloof from them as you would from an infected subject of yellow fever or pestilence. Consider yourself when with them as among the patients of bedlam needing medical care more than normal counsel. Be a listener only, keeping within yourself the habit of silence especially on politics No good can ever result from any attempts to set one of these fiery zealots to rights either on fact or principle. They are determined as to the facts they will believe & the opinions on which they will act. Get by them as you would by an angry bull. It is not a man of sense to dispute the road with such an animal.
Patrick Henry (Precepts Instilled In Him By His Uncle)
To be true & first in all my dealings. To bear no malice nor hatred in my heart. To keep my hands from picking & stealing. Not to covet other men’s goods but to learn & labor truly to get my own living & to do my duty in that station of life unto which it shall please God to call me.
Adam Smith, “The Wealth Of Nations”
The statesman who should attempt to direct private people in what manner they ought to employ their capital would not only load himself with a most unnecessary attention, but assume an authority which could safely be trusted, not only to no single person but to no council or Sen. whatever and which would nowhere be so dangerous as in the hands of a man who had folly & presumption enough to fancy himself fit to exercise it.
Sydney Harris
One way to distinguish truth from all its counterfeits is by its modesty: truth demands only to be heard among others while its counterfeits demand that others be silenced.
James A. Garfield
The men who succeed best in pub. life are those who take the risk of standing by their own convictions.
Dale Carnegie
Any fool can criticize, condemn & complain—& most fools do.
Mahatma Gandhi
I have not conceived my mission to be that of a knight-errant wandering everywhere to deliver people from different situations. My humble occupation has been to show people how they solve their own difficulties. My work will be finished if I succeed in carrying conviction to the human family, that every man or woman, however weak in body, is the guardian of his or her self respect & liberty. . . . This defense avails through the whole world may be against the individual register.
Gen. Petain After Fall Of France, WWII
Our spirit of enjoyment was stronger than our spirit of sacrifice. We wanted to have more than we wanted to give. We spared effort and met disaster.
Abe Lincoln
If I were to try to read much less answer all of the attacks made on me, this shop might as well be closed of any other business. I do the very best I know how—the very best I can; & I mean to keep doing so until the end. I the end brings me out alright, what is said against me won’t amount to anything. If the end brings me out wrong, 10 angels swearing I was right would make no difference.
Letter to his law partner: Don’t let the worship of the past or the confusion of the present interfere with realistic planning for the future.
Let not him who is houseless pull down the house of another but let him work diligently & build one for himself thus by example insuring that his own shall be safe from violence when built.
That man can compress the most words into the smallest ideas better than any man I have ever met.
With public sentiment behind you, anything is possible. Without it, nothing is possible. Therefore, he who influences public sentiment performs a vastly more significant act than he who simply meets statutes.
The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
I must stand with anybody who stands rt.—stnd. with him while he is rt. & part with him when he is wrong.
Winston Churchill
It’s not enough that we do our best; sometimes we have to do what’s required.
Cicero
44 B.C.—The great affairs of life are not performed by physical strength or activity, or nimbleness of body, but by deliberation, character, expression of opinion. Of these old age is not only not deprived, but as a rule, has them in greater degree.
Do not hold the delusion that your advancement is accomplished by crushing others.
Seneca
The foundation of true joy is the conscience.
Pericles
A man who takes no interest in public affairs is not a man who minds his own business. We say he has no business being here at all.
Marcus Antonius
Look well unto thyself; there is a source which will always spring up if thou wilt always search there.
Confucius
The interior man seeks what is right; the inferior one what is profitable.
Arabian Honey
In seeking honey expect the sting of bees.
Thomas Macaulay
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out.
Talmud
Who is wise? He who learns from everybody. Who is strong? He who conquers self. Who is rich? He who is satisfied with what he has. Who is honored? He who is honored by his neighbors.
Scotch Ballad
I am hurt but I am not slain—I’ll lie me down & bleed a while & then I’ll fight again.
Aristotle
Ed. is the best provision for old age.
Leonard Read
Perfect communication pre-supposes the perfect sayer & the perfect listener, neither one of whom ever existed. Worlds apart? Not necessarily—many are just words apart.
No bad idea is ever overcome by attacking the persons who believe it.
Do not argue—first present a better idea.
Honesty is as much abandoned by the theft of a dime as of a dollar.
Never concede to a friend any more power over the lives of others than you would to your worst enemy.
Poet Schreiner
Upon the road which you would travel there is no reward offered. Who goes—goes freely for the great love that is in him. The work is his reward.
Proverbs 20:17
The bread of deceit is sweet to a man; but afterward his mouth shall be filled with gravel.
Ecclesiastes 10:12
The words from a wise man’s mouth are gracious; but the lips of a fool will swallow up himself.
Colossians 4:6
Let your speech be always with grace, seasoned with salt, that ye may know how ye ought to answer every man.
Exodus 20:13 (Cap. Punishment) & 21:12
Thou shalt not kill—He that smiteth a man so that he die shall surely be put to death.
Spanish Proverb
To reply to an evil word by another taunt is like trying to clean off dirt with mud.
Pascal
Thought constitutes the greatness of man.
Anonymous
When we are right we credit our judgment & when we are wrong we blame our luck.
It is not necessary for all men to be great in action; the greatest & sublimest power is often simple patience.
Gov. Jack Williams—Arizona
Such things as truth, bravery, Loyalty, Honor, Love, kindness are the stars that hang always in the Heavens of all history—we never quite reach them, but as with the stars that used to guide a mariner to safe harbor, they are there for us to guide our conduct by.
“Wanted,” Sonnet by J. G. Holland
God give us men! A time like this demands strong minds, great hearts, true faith, and ready hands; men whom the lust of office does not kill! Men whom the spoils of office cannot buy; men who possess opinions & a will, men who have honor; men who will not lie; men who can stand before a demagogue & d—n his treacherous flatteries without winking; tall men, sun crowned, who live above the fog in public duty & in private thinking. For while the rabble with their thumb-worn creeds, their large professions, & their little deeds mingle in selfish strife, lo freedom weeps, wrong rules the land & waiting justice sleeps.
Anonymous
Charity often consists of a generous impulse to give away something we don’t want.
Viktor Frankl, Austrian Writer
A man who becomes conscious of the responsibility he bears toward a human being who affectionately waits for him or to an unfinished work will never be able to throw away his life. He knows the why for his existence and will be able to learn the how.
The Art of Living by Wilfred A. Peterson
Happiness does not depend on what happens outside of you but on what happens inside of you; it is measured by the spirit in which you meet the problems of life. Happiness is a state of mind. Lincoln once said: “We are as happy as we make up our minds to be.” Happiness doesn’t come from doing what we like to do but from liking what we have to do. Happiness comes from putting our hearts in our work & doing it with joy & enthusiasm. Happiness grows out of harmonious relationship with others based on attitudes of good will, tolerance, understanding & love. The master secret of happiness is to meet the challenge of each new day with the serene faith that “all things work together for good them that love God.”
From “Force 20 from Navarone,” Alistair Maclean
When all things are lost & there is no hope left, there is always somewhere in this world one man you can turn to. There may be only one man. More often than not, there is only one man. But that one man is always there. Or so they say.
Maxwell Anderson Speaking at Rutgers U., 1941
The purpose of the theatre is to find & hold up to our regard what is admirable in the human race. The theatrical profession may protest as much as it likes, the theologians may protest and the majority of those who see our plays would probably be amazed to hear it, but the theatre is a religious institution—devoted entirely to the exaltation of the spirit of man. It is an attempt to justify not the ways of God to man but the ways of man to himself. It is an attempt to prove that man has a dignity & and a destiny, that his life is worth living, that he is not purely animal & without purpose. There is no doubt in my mind that our theatre, instead of being as the evangelical ministers used to believe the gateway to h—l, is as much of a worship as the theatre of the Greeks and has exactly the same meaning in our lives The plays that please most and run longest in these sin-haunted alleys (of Broadway) are representative of human loyalty, courage, love that purges the soul, grief that ennobles The great plays of the world . . . teach one & all that an evil action revenges itself upon the doer. “Antigone” & “Hamlet” & 10,000 modern plays argue that injustice is corrosive & will eat the heart out of him who practices it. Analyze any play you please which has survived the test of continued favor & you will find a moral or a rule of social conduct or a rule of thumb which the race has considered valuable enough to learn & pass along. There have been critics who held that the theatre was central among the arts because it is a synthesis of all of them. Now I confess that the theatre appears to me to be the central art—but for a different reason. It does bring together all the arts of a number of them together in a communal religious service. Any other art practiced separately can be either moral or amoral, religious or pagan, affirmative or despairing. But when they come together in the theatre they must affirm, they cannot be detached, they cannot deny. It is as if poetry, music, narration, dancing and the mimetic arts were bits & pieces of theatrical art, stripped away to function alone and rudderless without the moral compulsion of the theatre.
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