There are a terrible lot of lies going about the world, and the worst of it is that half of them are true.
To build may have to be the slow and laborious task of years. To destroy can be the thoughtless act of a single day.
There is only one duty, only one safe course, and that is to try to be right and not to fear to do or say what you believe to be right.
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
Socialism is a philosophy of failure, the creed of ignorance, and the gospel of envy, its inherent virtue is the equal sharing of misery.
Those who can win a war well can rarely make a good peace, and those who could make a good peace would never have won the war.
We shall not fail or falter. We shall not weaken or tire. Neither the sudden shock of battle nor the long-drawn trials of vigilance and exertion will wear us down. Give us the tools and we will finish the job.
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
The first duty of the university is to teach wisdom, not a trade; character, not technicalities. We want a lot of engineers in the modern world, but we do not want a world of engineers.
The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
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