In war, the policy of least exertion always risks being paid for dearly.
Don't bother explaining--I've heard all the excuses and the trouble is most of them are true.
NEGRO :; Member of a subgroup of the human race who hails, or whose ancestors hailed, from a chunk of land nicknamed not by its residents Africa. Superior to the Caucasian in that negroes did not invent nuclear weapons, the automobile, Christianity, nerve gas, the concentration camp, military epidemics, or the megalopolis.
I just haven't been conditioned into thinking that the right answer can't be a simple one. When I told you you'd been contaminated I meant by that attitude, which is wider-spread than the common cold and just as undermining. Did nobody ever point out to you that the only liberty implied by free will is the opportunity to be wrong?
Any society which gives lip-service to the idea of equal opportunity is going to generate jealousy of others who are better off than you are, even if the thing that's in short supply can't be carved up and shared without destroying it.
to travel faster than a speeding bullet is not much help if you and it are heading straight towards each other
I'm myself, not a label.
But what I really believe is education is a key to pretty much everything - prosperity, economics, peace, stability.
There is so much data available to us, but most data won't help us succeed.
Why did the Articles [of Confederation] fail so completely? Most historians believe the founding fathers spent a great deal of their first constitutional convention drafting the delaration of independence and only realized on July 3rd the Articles were also due.
If you cultivate piety as an end and not a means, you will become a hypocrite.