Quotes by Statesmen - Page 15

I apprehend no danger to our country from a foreign foe. Our destruction, should it come at all, will be from another quarter. From the inattention of the people to the concerns of their government, from their carelessness and negligence, I must confess that I do apprehend some danger. I fear that they may place too implicit a confidence in their public servants, and fail properly to scrutinize their conduct; that in this way they may be made the dupes of designing men, and become the instruments of their own undoing. Make them intelligent, and they will be vigilant; give them the means of detecting the wrong, and they will apply the remedy.
Daniel Webster
He who is brave is free
Seneca
The Battle of Normandy was won on the beaches of Dieppe
Louis Mountbatten
the main thing is to make history not to write it
Otto von Bismarck
The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron and blood
Otto von Bismarck
The most part of all princes have more delight in warlike manners and feats of chivalry than in the good feats of peace.
Thomas More
Unless a nation's life faces peril, war is murder.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Heroes who shed their blood and lost their lives! You are now lying in the soil of a friendly country. Therefore rest in peace. There is no difference between the Johnnies and Mehmets to us where they lie side by side here in this country of ours. You, the mothers, who sent their sons from far away countries wipe away your tears; your sons are now lying in our bosom and are in peace. After having lost their lives on this land they have become our sons as well.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
The only really interesting thing iswhat happens between two people in a room.
Francis Bacon
Where a man cannot fitly play his own part; if he have not a friend, he may quit the stage.
Francis Bacon
How closely flattery resembles friendship! It not only apes friendship, but outdoes it, passing it in the race; with wide-open and indulgent ears it is welcomed and sinks to the depths of the heart, and it is pleasing precisely wherein it does harm.
Seneca
Because thou writest me often, I thank thee ... Never do I receive a letter from thee, but immediately we are together.
Seneca
There is no enjoying the possession of anything valuable unless one has someone to share it with
Seneca
Age appears best in four things: old wood to burn, old wine to drink, old friends to trust and old authors to read.
Francis Bacon
The heights charm us, but the steps do not; with the mountain in our view we love to walk the plains.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Be above it! Make the world serve your purpose, but do not serve it!
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The greatest thing in this world is not so much where we stand as in what direction we are moving.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
f you wish to put off all worry, assume that what you fear may happen is certainly going to happen.
Seneca
The human mind is often, and I think it is for the most part, in a state neither of pain nor pleasure, which I call a state of indifference.
Edmund Burke
No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.
Edmund Burke
The human race is a monotonous affair. Most people spend the greatest part of their time working in order to live, and what little freedom remains so fills them with fear that they seek out any and every means to be rid of it.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Let this little book be thy friend, if, owing to fortune or through thine own fault, thou canst not find a dearer companion.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
distringit librorum multitudo (the abundance of books is distraction)
Seneca
Read not to contradict and confute, nor to believe and take for granted ...but to weigh and consider.
Francis Bacon
Leisure without books is death, and burial of a man alive.
Seneca
Read not to contradict and confute; nor to believe and take for granted; nor to find talk and discourse; but to weigh and consider. Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested: that is, some books are to be read only in parts, others to be read, but not curiously, and some few to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.
Francis Bacon
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Francis Bacon
Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of those glories, but only to the glory of inquisition of truth; for so he saith expressly, "The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out;" as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide His works, to the end to have them found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honour than to be God's playfellows in that game
Francis Bacon
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science is the most reliable guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Our true mentor in life is science.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion
Francis Bacon
Wonder is the seed of knowledge
Francis Bacon
Nay, the same Solomon the king, although he excelled in the glory of treasure and magnificent buildings, of shipping and navigation, of service and attendance, of fame and renown, and the like, yet he maketh no claim to any of those glories, but only to the glory of inquisition of truth; for so he saith expressly, "The glory of God is to conceal a thing, but the glory of the king is to find it out;" as if, according to the innocent play of children, the Divine Majesty took delight to hide His works, to the end to have them found out; and as if kings could not obtain a greater honour than to be God's playfellows in that game
Francis Bacon
Insofar as he makes use of his healthy senses, man himself is the best and most exact scientific instrument possible. The greatest misfortune of modern physics is that its experiments have been set apart from man, as it were, physics refuses to recognize nature in anything not shown by artificial instruments, and even uses this as a measure of its accomplishments.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Science is the most reliable guide in life.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Our true mentor in life is science.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism, but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion
Francis Bacon
Wonder is the seed of knowledge
Francis Bacon
Nothing is more highly to be prized than the value of each day
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man that is young in years may be old in hours if he have lost no time.
Francis Bacon
If the whole world I once could seeOn free soil stand, with the people freeThen to the moment might I say,Linger awhile. . .so fair thou art.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It's not that we have little time, but more that we waste a good deal of it.
Seneca
The part of life we really live is small.' For all the rest of existence is not life, but merely time.
Seneca
Each man is the architect of his own fortune.
Appius Claudius Caecus
I suffer from the congenital weakness of believing I can do anything.
Louis Mountbatten
Everything is hard before it is easy
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Knowledge itself is power
Francis Bacon
Morality in the general is well enough known by men, but the particular refinements of virtue are unknown by most persons; thus the majority of parents, without knowing it and without intending it, give very bad examples to their children.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Respect is tendered with pleasure only where it is not exacted.
Anne-Robert-Jacques Turgot
Teachers are the one and only people who save nations.
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
If anyone says that the best life of all is to sail the sea, and then adds that I must not sail upon a sea where shipwrecks are a common occurrence and there are often sudden storms that sweep the helmsman in an adverse direction, I conclude that this man, although he lauds navigation, really forbids me to launch my ship.
Seneca
Instruction does much, but encouragement everyt
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them.
Thomas More
Anything in the world can be endured, except a series of wonderful days.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
The inquiry of truth, which is the love-making, or the wooing of it, the knowledge of truth, which is the presence of it, and the belief of truth, which is the enjoying of it, is the sovereign good of human nature.
Francis Bacon
For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.
Francis Bacon
If in other sciences we should arrive at certainty without doubt and truth without error, it behooves us to place the foundations of knowledge in mathematics.
Francis Bacon
Be very, very careful what you put in that head, because you will never, ever get it out.
Thomas Cardinal Wolsey
I would address one general admonition to all, that they consider what are the true ends of knowledge, and that they seek it not either for pleasure of the mind, or for contention, or for superiority to others, or for profit, or for fame, or power, or any of these inferior things, but for the benefit and use of life; and that they perfect and govern it in charity. For it was from lust of power that the Angels fell, from lust of knowledge that man fell, but of charity there can be no excess, neither did angel or man come in danger by it.
Francis Bacon