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| Those who are silent, self-effacing and attentive become the recipients of confidences. |
| Thornton Wilder |
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| Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground. |
| Frederick Douglass |
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| To fly from, need not be to hate mankind |
| Lord Byron |
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| To sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of men. |
| Abraham Lincoln |
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| To strive with difficulties, and to conquer them, is the highest human felicity. |
| Samuel Johnson |
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| Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind. |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special. |
| Stephen Hawking |
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| We are not won by arguments that we can analyze but by the tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself |
| Samuel Butler |
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| We grow great by dreams. All big men are dreamers. They see things in the soft haze of a spring day or in the red fire of a long winter's evening. Some of us let these great dreams die, but others nourish and protect them; nurse them through bad days till they bring them to the sunshine and light which comes always to those who sincerely hope that their dreams will come true. |
| Woodrow T. Wilson |
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| We have a lot of people revolutionizing the world because they've never had to present a working model |
| Charles F. Kettering |
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| We have the power to make this the best generation of mankind in the history of the world - or to make it the last. |
| John Fitzgerald Kennedy |
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| We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable; that all men are created equal and independent, that from that equal creation they derive rights inherent and inalienable, among which are the preservation of life, and liberty, and the pursuit of hap |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| We hold these truths to be self evident: that all men are created equal; that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights; that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness |
| Thomas Jefferson |
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| We must not indulge in unfavorable views of mankind, since by doing it we make bad men believe they are no worse than others, and we teach the good that they are good in vain. |
| Walter Winchell |
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| Whatever crushes individuality is despotism, by whatever name it may be called and whether it professes to be enforcing the will of God or the injunctions of men. |
| John Stuart Mill |
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| When a nation gives birth to a man who is able to produce a great thought, another is born who is able to understand and admire it |
| Joseph Joubert |
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