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Our national debt, after all, is an internal debt, owed not only by the nation but to the nation. If our children have to pay the interest they will pay that interest to themselves.
Topic: Debt
When you squeeze an orange, orange juice comes out-because that's what's inside. When you are squeezed, what comes out is what is inside.
Author: Wayne Dyer
All of us who served in one war or another know very well that all wars are the glory and the agony of the young.
Topic: War
The art of the indirect approach can only be mastered, and its full scope appreciated, by study of and reflection upon the whole history of war. But we can at least crystallize the lessons into two simple maxims- one negative, the other positive. The first is that, in face of the overwhelming evidence of history, no general is justified in launching his troops to a direct attack upon an enemy firmly in position. The second, that instead of seeking to upset the enemy's equilibrium by one's attack, it must be upset before a real attack is, or can be successfully launched.
The trees in Siberia are miles apart, that is why the dogs are so fast.
Topic: Dogs
Author: Bob Hope
States like these, and their terrorist allies, constitute an axis of evil, arming to threaten the peace of the world. By seeking weapons of mass destruction, these regimes pose a grave and growing danger. They could provide these arms to terrorists, giving them the means to match their hatred. They could attack our allies or attempt to blackmail the United States. In any of these cases, the price of indifference would be catastrophic.
Topic: Evil
God has a thousand ways, Where I can see not one; When all my means have reached their end, Then His have just begun.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
But Hercules himself must yield to odds; And many strokes, though with a little axe, Hews down and fells the hardest-timbered oak.
I know how men in exile feed on dreams.
Topic: Outcasts
Author: Aeschylus
No steps backward.
Topic: Ambition
Author: Horace
Hippies are lots of fun, as long as they are not involved in commerce.
Topic: Hippies
Author: Phil MacNutt
But here by the mill the castled clouds Mocked themselves in the dizzy water.
Topic: Clouds
A rookie cop was asked the following question on an examination: "How would you go about dispersing a crowd?" He answered: "Take up an offering. That does it every time.".
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The only thing that I'd rather own than Windows is English, because then I could charge you two hundred and forty-nine dollars for the right to speak it.
Television is an invention that permits you to be entertained in your living room by people you wouldn't have in your home.
Topic: Television
Author: David Frost
Concerning all acts of iniative and creation, there is one elementary truth- that the moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves, too. -W.H. Murray.
Topic: Change
Author: W H Murray
Security is the priceless product of freedom. Only the strong can be secure, and only in freedom can men produce those material resources which can secure them from want at home and against aggression from abroad.
Topic: Security
The latest survey shows that 3 out of 4 people make up 75% of the population.
Topic: Cliches
Author: Unknown
The essence of war is violence. Moderation in war is imbecility.
Topic: War
Entire affection hateth nicer hands.
Topic: Jealousy