An excellent plumber is infinitely more admirable than an incompetent philosopher.
A badge is a symbol that girls have done the thing it stands for often enough, thoroughly enough, and well enough to be prepared to give service in it.
Right is right, even if no one else does it.
Badges mean nothing in themselves, but they mark a certain achievement and they are a link between the rich and the poor. For when one girl sees a badge on a sister Scout's arm, if that girl has won the same badge, it at once awakens an interest and sympathy between them.
Scouting rises within you and inspires you to put forth your best.
My purpose. . . to go on with my heart and soul, devoting all my energies to Girl Scouts, and heart and hand with them, we will make our lives and the lives of the future girls happy, healthy and holy.
The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers.
Lincoln's reference to government of the people, by the people, for the people is a generally satisfactory definition of democracy. I say generally because when it comes to fair and workable details, democracy fails to completely meet the criteria enunciated by Lincoln by a rather wide margin.
I think everyone spins. You would just be an empty vacant shell reporting facts. I mean, you have your life that you bring with you to every moment that happens.
The lawyer's truth is not Truth, but consistency or a consistent expediency.
I think Guantanamo, has been synonymous with the staining of American values and American legal tradition.