First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

First they ignore you. Then they laugh at you. Then they fight you. Then you win.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

You measure a government by how few people need help.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Poverty and War have no excuse.

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man
struggling for life in the read more

Is not a patron, my lord, one who looks with unconcern on a man
struggling for life in the water, and when he has reached ground
encumbers him with help?

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is read more

To help all created things, that is the measure of all our responsibility; to be helped by all, that is the measure of our hope.

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one
who has lighted another's read more

He who civilly shows the way to one who has missed it, is as one
who has lighted another's lamp from his own lamp; it none the
less gives light to himself when it burns for the other.
[Lat., Homo qui erranti comiter monstrat viam,
Quasi lumen de suo lumine accendit, facit:
Nihilominus ipsi luceat, cum illi accenderit.]

But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'

But ere we could arrive the point proposed,
Caesar cried, 'Help me, Cassius, or I sink!'

A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand
Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,
And he that read more

A sceptre snatched with an unruly hand
Must be as boisterously maintained as gained,
And he that stands upon a slippery place
Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.

Ridicule has historically proven itself a rickety fence for great ideas.