The Older I get, the more I judge people by their character and not by their ideas.

A lost battle is a battle one thinks one has lost.

Everyone speaks well of his heart, but no one dares to say it of his dead.

Theharder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.

We think too small. Like the frog at the bottom of the well. He thinks the sky is only as big as the top of the well. If he surfaced, he would have an entirely different view.

A shipin harbor is safe, but that is not what ships arebuilt for.

Thereis nothing more likely to start disagreement among people or countries thanan agreement.

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The difficulty of speeches is what you are perpetually poised between the ciche and the indiscretion

Patriots always talk of dying for their country, and never of killing for their country

Slander cannot destroy an honest man: when the flood recedes the rock is there.

There are two kind of people, those who do the work and those who take the credit. try to be in the first group; there is a less competition there.