Maxioms by Theodore Roosevelt
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get read more
It is hard to fail, but it is worse never to have tried to succeed. In this life we get nothing save by effort.
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take read more
Far better is it to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure than to take rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much because they live in the grey twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you read more
If there is not the war, you don't get the great general; if there is not a great occasion, you don't get a great statesman; if Lincoln had lived in a time of peace, no one would have known his name.
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when read more
No man is above the law and no man is below it; nor do we ask any man's permission when we ask him to obey it.