“It is better to be defeated than to confess defeat in advance.”
William Jennings Bryan in a letter to his brother Charles in 1920, quoted in Robert W. Cherny, A Righteous Cause: The Life of William Jennings Bryan
“But by the mid-twentieth century, God was killed off in the public mind – or if not killed, then badly disabled…”
William D. Gairdner The Trouble With Democracy
“He is a modest man, with a great deal to be modest about.”
Winston Churchill about Clement Attlee, quoted by Richard John Neuhaus in First Things April 2002
“An intelligent man finds almost everything ridiculous, a wise man hardly anything.”
Goethe, quoted as “Thought du jour” in “Social Studies” in Globe & Mail May 17, 2006
“L’intérêt met en oeuvre toutes sortes de vertus et de vices.”
Réflexions morales #253 in La Rochefoucauld Maximes
“You always have to go on that, your instinctive trust or – your lack of trust. In the final analysis, there is really nothing else you can go on.”
Philip K. Dick VALIS
“Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any one thing.”
Abraham Lincoln, quoted in the American Spectator August 1988
They describe rural New Hampshire churches in March 1968 with spires “pointing the way toward salvation and a God who was, by most current accounts, either dead or hiding out in Argentina. It was going to be a bad year.”
William W. Prochenau & Richard W. Larsen, A Certain Democrat: Senator Henry M. Jackson A Political Biography