"It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believes that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes."

-- Arthur Conan Doyle

#Country Quotes #Stars Quotes #Children Quotes

“Fear is for the enemy. Fear and bullets.”
“On the long dusty ribbon of the long city street, The pageant of life is passing me on multitudinous feet, With a word here of the hills, and a song there of the sea And-the great movement changes-the pageant passes me.”
“I think it is worse to be poor in mind than in purse, to be stunted and belittled in soul, made a coward, made a liar, made mean and slavish, accustomed to fawn and prevaricate, and "manage" by base arts a husband or a father,--I think this is worse than to be kicked with hobnailed shoes.”

Source : Frances Power Cobbe (1882). “The Duties of Women: A Course of Lectures”
“Today is the first day of the rest of your life, and if you screw that up, you can start again tomorrow.”
“The secret of high finance...if you really need a loan, you won't qualify. And if you don't need a loan, all the lenders will line up to give you money.”
“Before we can forgive one another, we have to understand one another.”
“Winning isn't everything, but it beats anything in second place.”
“Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them.”

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