Schuyler Colfax famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

  • So long as there are men, there will be wars.

  • Nowadays, many Americans have forgotten the meaning and traditions of Memorial Day. At cemeteries across the country, the graves of the fallen are sadly ignored, and worse, neglected.

  • Better to die fighting for freedom then be a prisoner all the days of your life.

  • I have long believed that sacrifice is the pinnacle of patriotism.

  • A false idea is not only one which is absolutely subjective but one which is absolutely objective.

  • The Tarot embodies symbolical presentations of universal ideas, behind which lie all the implicits of the human mind, and it is in this sense that they contain secret doctrine, which is the realization by the few of truths embedded in the consciousness of all.

  • I tried the paleo diet, which is the caveman diet - lots of meat. And I tried the calorie restriction diet: The idea is that if you eat very, very little - if you're on the verge of starvation, you will live a very long time, whether or not you want to, of course.

  • To read is to fly: it is to soar to a point of vantage which gives a view over wide terrains of history, human variety, ideas, shared experience and the fruits of many inquiries.

  • The age of Lincoln and Jefferson memorials is over. It will be presidential libraries from now on.

  • There will be a competition for the memorial. And then it can be developed with trees, with planting. It can become a very beautiful place protected from the streets, because it is below. And it can be something very moving and very private.

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