Where you find the laws most numerous, there you will find also the greatest injustice.
–Arcesilaus
We hang the petty thieves and appoint the great ones to public office.
–Aesop (620 BC – 560 BC)
No act of kindness, no matter how small, is ever wasted.
–Aesop, The Lion and the Mouse
What an absurd thing it is to pass over all the valuable parts of a man, and fix our attention on his infirmities.
–Joseph Addison
Content thyself to be obscurely good. When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, the post of honor is a private station.
–Joseph Addison, Cato
Liberty is not a means to a higher political end. It is itself the highest political end.
–Lord Acton, Lecture, February 26, 1877
When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle.
–Edmund Burke (1729 – 1797) Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents
A man who works beyond the surface of things, though he may be wrong himself, yet he clears the way for others and may make even his errors subservient to the cause of truth.
–Edmund Burke, A Philosophical Enquiry Into The Sublime and Beautiful
When ancient opinions and rules of life are taken away, the loss cannot possibly be estimated. From that moment we have no compass to govern us; nor can we know distinctly to what port we steer.
–Edmund Burke, Reflections on the Revolution in France
You can observe a lot just by watching.
–Yogi Berra, US baseball player, coach, manager, businessman, Berra’s Law
A smile is the shortest distance between two people.
— Victor Borge (1909-2000), Classical pianist, entertainer, comedian
A love for tradition has never weakened a nation, indeed it has strengthened nations in their hour of peril.
–Sir Winston Churchill Sir Winston Churchill (1874 – 1965), British politician
All great things are simple, and many can be expressed in single words: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
–Sir Winston Churchill
Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened.
–Sir Winston Churchill
However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results.
–Sir Winston Churchill
Success is the ability to go from one failure to another with no loss of enthusiasm.
–Sir Winston Churchill
Higher Revolution: 