"Even respectable characters speak of a monarchical form of government without horror."

-- George Washington

#Character Quotes #Government Quotes #Revolution Quotes

“I do not believe that we can put into anyone ideas which are not in him already. As a rule there are in everyone all sorts of good ideas, ready like tinder. But much of this tinder catches fire, or catches it successfully, only when it meets some flame or spark from outside, i.e., from some other person.”
“Everybody else is afraid to fail. I do not really care because when I fail, I try something new.”
“It were better to be a soldier's widow than a coward's wife.”

Source : Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1911). “The writings of Thomas Bailey Aldrich”
“Our ignorance is not so vast as our failure to use what we know.”
“Forgiveness is an embrace, across all barriers, against all odds, in defiance of all that is mean and petty and vindictive and cruel in this life.”
“Suffering is always the effect of wrong thought in some direction. It is an indication that the individual is out of harmony with himself, with the Law of his being.”
“Positive thinkers get positive results because they are not afraid of problems.”
“In God, the characteristics of men and women that we admire in men and women are combined. That's been a traditional Catholic teaching that God is the combination of opposites.”

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