The ultimate determinant in the struggle now going on for the world will not be bombs and rockets but a test of wills and ideas-a trial of spiritual resolve: the values we hold, the beliefs we cherish and the ideals to which we are dedicated. (Link)
* Quote by Ronald Reagan

Before a war military science seems a real science, like astronomy; but after a war it seems more like astrology. (Link)
* Quote by Rebecca West

The single best augury is to fight for one's country. (Link)
* Quote by Homer

The market can stay irrational longer than you can stay solvent. (Link)
* Quote by John Maynard Keynes

Use soft words and hard arguments. (Link)
* Quote by English Proverb

O, now, for ever Farewell the tranquil mind! farewell content! Farewell the plumed troop and the big wars That make ambition virtue! O, farewell! Farewell the neighing steed and the shrill trump, The spirit-stirring drum, the ear-piercing fife, (Link)
* Quote by William Shakespeare

The charity that hastens to proclaim its good deeds, ceases to be charity, and is only pride and ostentation. (Link)
* Quote by William Hutton

Society, my dear, is like salt water, good to swim in but hard to swallow. (Link)
* Quote by Arthur Stringer

War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things. The decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth war is much worse. The person who has nothing for which he is willing to fight, nothing which is more imp (Link)
* Quote by John Stuart Mill

When you have loved as she has loved, you grow old beautifully. (Link)
* Quote by W. Somerset Maugham

There is no doubt that the first requirement for a composer is to be dead. (Link)
* Quote by Arthur Honegger

Ninety percent of the politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. (Link)
* Quote by Henry Kissinger

In religion and politics, people's beliefs and convictions are in almost every case gotten at second hand, and without examination. (Link)
* Quote by Mark Twain

We have, in fact, two kinds of morality side by side: one which we preach but do not practice, and another which we practice but seldom preach. (Link)
* Quote by Bertrand Russell

Do not seek evil gains; evil gains are the equivalent of disaster. (Link)
* Quote by Hesiod

People with courage and character always seem sinister to the rest. (Link)
* Quote by Hermann Hesse

There is no revenge so complete as forgiveness. (Link)
* Quote by Josh Billings

Always behave like a duck - keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath. (Link)
* Quote by Jacob Braude

I know of only one bird - the parrot - that talks; and it can't fly very high. (Link)
* Quote by Wilbur Wright

You don't like your job, you don't strike. You go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way. (Link)
* Quote by Matt Groening

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