“Sometimes it’s necessary to make things clearer than the truth.” Secretary of State Dean Acheson

“I don’t know where I’m going but I’m on my way.” Carl Sandburg

GOD doesn’t want polite prayer.

“All mankind is divided into three classes: those that are immovable; those that are moveable; and those that move.”

“Russia is never as strong as it looks nor as weak as it looks.”

Women must do twice as well as men to be thought of half as good. Luckily this is not difficult.

“Insanity is doing more of what you’re already doing and thinking it will lead to a different outcome.” Einstein

“Humor is the first gift to vanish in a foreign language.” Virginia Woolf

Phrases to use to impress people: “too big to fail,” “Flight from dollar,” “Inflation genie, from a bottle.”

Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

Let all your thinks be thanks.

“Blessed are those who can give without remembering and take without forgetting.

“When we put our cares in his hands, he puts his peace in our hearts.”

The test of courage comes when we are in the minority. The test of tolerance comes when we are in the majority.

“Neither a wise man nor a brave man lies down on the tracks of history to wait for the train of the future to run over him.” Eisenhower

Industry, thrift and self-control are not sought because they create wealth but because they create character.

Be not simply good. Be good for something.

“History is only a pack of tricks we play on the dead.” Voltaire

Interesting old people are smooth pebbles under rushing streams.

Ants don’t come to our picnics; we go to theirs.

Friends argue more than strangers.

A child’s laughter is God’s echo.

The best teachers are those who know they have something left to learn.

Blood will tell but gossip’s quicker.

Plants teach us two things: take root and reach up.

“You are the only one who can stretch your own horizon.” Magnin

“Whether women are better than men I cannot say, but I can say they certainly are no worse.” Golda Meir

The most anxious man in a prison is the warden.

Violence is not the result of losing control; it is an ineffective way of taking control.

There are worse things than burning books, one of them is not reading them.

“Violence is the language of the unheard.” Martin Luther King Jr.

Opportunity knocks once but temptation leans on the doorbell.

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

Father Neuhaus: “American identity is memory in the service of promise.”

War is cruelty, the crueler it is, the sooner it is over.” Sherman

There can be no duty to do what can’t be done.” George Will

He has a face that could slow a clock.

All wars are total to the people they kill.

Wherever we come from, whatever we believe and however we make a living; Americans are to a greater or lesser extent inhabitants of a world shaped by the last five centuries of western culture and history.

You can’t bomb knowledge.

It is every man’s obligation to put back into the world at least the equivalent of what he takes out of it.” Einstein

“Fame is a vapor, popularity an accident, riches take wing, and only character endures.”

“There is no Republican or Democratic way to clean streets.” Fiorella Laguardia

It’s the sort of book I find it easy to put down.

Attorney Austin Cunningham has been the president of five business companies and in 1988 was named Outstanding Elder Citizen of the Year for South Carolina.

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