"President Jimmy Carter was a citizen soldier. Ironically, he was considered weak because he didn't kill anybody and he didn't get anyone killed."

-- Andrew Young

#Soldier Quotes #President Quotes #Citizens Quotes

“When I speak it is in order to be heard.”
“If you would inform, a positive and dogmatic manner in advancing your sentiments may provoke contradiction and prevent a candid attention. If you wish information and improvement from the knowledge of others, and yet at the same time express yourself as firmly fixed in your present opinions, modest, sensible men, who do not love disputation, will probably leave you undisturbed in the possession of your error.”
“I was sad to leave Europe in 1890, after my student days in Germany... But then, once back in New York, I experienced an intense longing for Europe, for its vital tradition of music, theatre, art, craftsmanship... I felt bewildered and lonely. How was I to use myself?”
“A man's wisdom is measured by his hope.”
“On the diffusion of education among the people rest the preservation and perpetuation of our free institutions.”
“We come to beginnings only at the end.”
“To preserve health is a moral and religious duty, for health is the basis of all social virtues. We can no longer be useful when not well.”

Source : "The Letters of Samuel Johnson, Volume I: 1731-1772".
“Any design, whether its for a ship or an airplane, must be done in anticipation of potential failures.”

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