A.T. Baron Quotes
There's no weapon that slays its victim so surely (if well aimed) as praise.
Love of the republic in a democracy, is a love of the democracy; love of the democracy is that of equality. Love of the democracy is likewise that of frugality.
In the infancy of societies, the chiefs of state shape its institutions; later the institutions shape the chiefs of state.
Now, gentlemen, let us do something today which the world may talk of hereafter.
Talent is a gift which God has given us secretly, and which we reveal without perceiving it.
It is difficult to say who do you the most mischief, enemies with the worst intentions, or friends with the best.
One and one make 2. But if you bring 1 and 1 close together they make 11.
The prudent person may direct a state, but it is the enthusiast who regenerates or ruins it
If you are in doubt whether to write a letter or not, don't. And the advice applies to many doubts in life besides that of letter writing.
The true spirit of conversation consists in building on another man's observation, not overturning it.
Every man who observes vigilantly, and resolves steadfastly, grows unconsciously into genius.
In these days half our diseases come from neglect of the body in overwork of the brain.
It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.
I would rather have five energetic and competent enemies than one fool friend.
To dispense with ceremony is the most delicate mode of conferring a compliment.
The success of most things depends upon knowing how long it will take to succeed.
It is destiny phrase of the weak human heart! 'It is destiny' dark apology for every error! The strong and virtuous admit no destiny
People praise us behind our backs, but we hear them not; few before our faces, and who is not suspicious of the truth of such praise?
My favorite shots are the practice swing and the conceded putt. The rest can never be mastered.
Habit is the cement of society, the comfort of life, and, alas! The root of error.
A good rider on a good horse is as much above himself and others as the world can make him.
We know that the organised workers of the country are our friends. As for the rest, they don't matter a tinker's cuss.
O wearisome condition of humanity! Born under one law, to another bound; Vainly begot and yet forbidden vanity; Created sick, commanded to be sound.
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of being rational, as we say a parrot is a creature capable of speech?
The object of any tyrant would be to overthrow or diminish trial by jury, for it is the lamp that shows that freedom lives.
The atheist . . . destroys the chimeras which afflict the human race, and so leads men back to nature, to experience and to reason.
In the age when the atom has been split, the moon encircled, diseases conquered, is disarmament so difficult a matter that it must remain a distant dream?
There is nothing so agonizing to the fine skin of vanity as the application of a rough truth.
Tarzan is direct; he doesn't ask Jane if they might have a meaningful relationship or if they can get together for lunch sometime.
There is a paradox at the heart of our lives. Most people want more income and strive for it. Yet as Western societies have got richer, their people have become no happier.
When virtue is banished, ambition invades the minds of those who are disposed to receive it and avarice possesses the whole community.
My strength has now been reduced to the equivalent of 36 squadrons...we should be able to carry on the war single-handed for some time if not indefinitely.
The mind's eye is perhaps no better fitted for the full radiance of truth, than is the body's for that of the sun.
He who doth not smoke hath either known no great griefs, or refuseth himself the softest consolation, next to that which comes from heaven.
War is no longer a series of battles, but a test of the strength of the entire nation, its moral strength as well as physical, brain as well as muscles, and stamina as well as courage.
