A Bit of Wisdom from Churchill on Life’s Battles
“War is a game that is played with a smile. If you can’t smile, grin. If you can’t grin, keep out of the way till you can.” ~ Winston Churchill
A Bit of Wisdom from John Quincy Adams
“If you actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more, and become more, you are a leader.” ~ John Quincy Adams
A Bit of Wisdom From Emerson, Especially Poignant in our Divided Era
“In my walks, every man I meet is my superior in some way, and in that I learn from him.” ― Ralph Waldo Emerson May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882
A Bit of Wisdom on Offending the Intelligence Community
“Let me tell you, you take on the intelligence community, they have six ways from Sunday at getting back at you. So even for a practical, supposedly hard-nosed businessman, he’s being really dumb to do this.” Senator Schumer in 2017
Washington on Hearing Both Sides
“When one side only of a story is heard and often repeated, the human mind becomes impressed with it insensibly.” ~ George Washington
Teddy Roosevelt on Courage
“Courage is not having the strength to go on; it is going on when you don’t have the strength.” Teddy Roosevelt
Keep Moving Forward Said Abraham Lincoln
“I walk slowly but I never walk backward” President Abraham Lincoln “Abraham Lincoln; February 12, 1809 – April 15, 1865) was an American politician and lawyer who served as the 16th President of the United States from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. Lincoln led the United States through its Civil War—its bloodiest […]
James K. Polk Says…”May The Boldest Fear & Wisest Tremble”
“May the boldest fear and the wisest tremble when incurring responsibilities on which may depend our country’s peace and prosperity, and in some degree the hopes and happiness of the whole human family.” President, James K. Polk 1845-1849 A bit more on President Polk from the James K. Polk home & museum. “A Frontier Upbringing […]
President James Madison On Brevity & Clarity Of Laws
“It will be of little avail to the people that the laws are made by men of their own choice if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood.” President James Madison
Nietzsche On Why Protecting Individual Freedoms Is Paramount
“In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule.” By Friedrich Nietzsche