Aphorisms
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Cowards die many times before their actual deaths.
Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.
We must learn to live together as brothers or perish together as fools.
Only the dead have seen the end of the war.
Language makes infinite use of finite media.
When all the world is overcharged with inhabitants, then the last remedy of all is war, which provideth for every man, by victory or death.
Words are the money of fools.
Force and fraud are in war the two cardinal virtues.
I drink to make other people interesting.
Great minds have purposes; others have wishes.
How can anyone govern a nation that has two hundred and forty-six different kinds of cheese?
The sword is the axis of the world and its power is absolute.
We are not here to laugh.
Deliberation is the work of many men. Action, of one alone.
Each age has deemed the new-born year the fittest time for festal cheer.
Our defense is in the preservation of the spirit which prizes liberty as a heritage of all men, in all lands, everywhere. Destroy this spirit and you have planted the seeds of despotism around your own doors.
The way for a young man to rise is to improve himself in every way he can, never suspecting that anybody wishes to hinder him.
Over every mountain there is a path, although it may not be seen from the valley.
One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment... If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along.
The test of our progress is not whether we add more to the abundance of those who have much it is whether we provide enough for those who have little.
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