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From now on, ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put. - Author object (81)

We sleep safely at night because rough men stand ready to visit violence on those who would harm us. - Author object (81)

Attitude is a little thing that makes a big difference. - Author object (81)

We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out. - Author object (81)

An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Author object (81)

If you cannot read all your books...fondle them---peer into them, let them fall open where they will, read from the first sentence that arrests the eye, set them back on the shelves with your own hands, arrange them on your own plan so that you at least know where they are. Let them be your friends; let them, at any rate, be your acquaintances. - Author object (81)

Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery. - Author object (81)

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope. - Author object (81)

Now this is not the end. It is not even the beginning of the end. But it is, perhaps, the end of the beginning. - Author object (81)

You ask, what is our aim? I can answer in one word. It is victory, victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory, however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival. - Author object (81)

Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people's idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage. - Author object (81)

A joke is a very serious thing. - Author object (81)

I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat. - Author object (81)

The farther backward you can look, the farther forward you are likely to see. - Author object (81)

Before you can inspire with emotion, you must be swamped with it yourself. Before you can move their tears, your own must flow. To convince them, you must yourself, believe. - Author object (81)

History is written by the victors. - Author object (81)

In the course of my life, I have often had to eat my words, and I must confess that I have always found it a wholesome diet. - Author object (81)

Criticism may not be agreeable, but it is necessary. It fulfills the same function as pain in the human body. It calls attention to an unhealthy state of things. - Author object (81)

If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack. - Author object (81)

Healthy citizens are the greatest asset any country can have. - Author object (81)