It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
It takes time to persuade men to do even what is for their own good.
Thomas Jefferson
Plough deep while sluggards sleep. ~Benjamin Franklin
I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on man unless they act. ~G.K. Chesterton
Show me a man who cannot bother to do little things and I’ll show you a man who cannot be trusted to do big things.
— Lawrence D. Bell
A learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one.
Benjamin Franklin
“The power of accurate observation is frequently called cynicism by those who don’t have it.”
– George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)
And so, my fellow americans: ask not what your country can do for you – ask what you can do for your country. My fellow citizens of the world: ask not what America will do for you, but what together we can do for the freedom of man.
John F. Kennedy, Inaugural address, January 20, 1961
ケネディー記念館(ボストン)で改めて思ったことだけれどこの人の演説のうまさはオバマさんの比ではない。 普通の政治家なら避けて通るようなことも堂々と言ってのける。 敵が多かったのもうなずける。 けれど信念のある人は尊敬されるのだ。
“Well-timed silence hath more eloquence than speech.”
– Martin Fraquhar Tupper
When you win, nothing hurts.
-Joe Namath
Self-preservation is the first law of nature; self-sacrifice the highest rule of grace.
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