Quotes To Live By

"The business of Progressives is to go on making mistakes. The business of Conservatives is to prevent mistakes from being corrected." - G.K. Chesterton

"In this world of sin and sorrow there is always something to be thankful for; as for me, I rejoice that I am not a Republican." - H.L. Mencken

"Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. People have the right to expect that these wants will be provided for by this wisdom." - Jimmy Carter

"You do not lead by hitting people over the head - that's assault, not leadership." - Dwight D. Eisenhower

"If your actions inspire others to dream more, learn more, do more and become more, you are a leader." - John Quincy Adams

"A leader takes people where they want to go. A great leader takes people where they don't necessarily want to go, but ought to be." - Rosalynn Carter

"All who have meditated on the art of governing mankind have been convinced that the fate of empires depends on the education of youth." - Aristotle

"Give me six hours to chop down a tree and I will spend the first four sharpening the axe." - Abraham Lincoln

"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." - Alvin Toffler

"It is impossible for a man to learn what he thinks he already knows." - Epictetus

"Remember that our nation's first great leaders were also our first great scholars." - John F. Kennedy

"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world." - Nelson Mandela

"Whenever the people are well-informed, they can be trusted with their own government." - Thomas Jefferson

"Common sense is the knack of seeing things as they are, and doing things as they ought to be done." - Harriet Beecher Stowe

"Not doing more than the average is what keeps the average down." - William M Winans

"We have learned that power is a positive force if it is used for positive purposes." - Elizabeth Dole

"No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious." - George Bernard Shaw

"No science is immune to the infection of politics and the corruption of power." - Jacob Bronowski

"When the power of love overcomes the love of power the world will know peace." - Jimi Hendrix

"I hope our wisdom will grow with our power, and teach us, that the less we use our power the greater it will be." - Thomas Jefferson

"It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err." - Mohandas K. Gandhi

"The sad duty of politics is to establish justice in a sinful world." - Jimmy Carter

"The care of human life and happiness, and not their destruction, is the first and only object of good government." - Thomas Jefferson