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welsh (wlsh, wlch) also Welch (wlch)
intr.v. welshed also welched, welsh·ing also welch·ing, welsh·es also
welch·es Informal
1. To swindle a person by not paying a debt or wager.
2. To fail to fulfill an obligation.
A good name is more desirable than great riches; to be esteemed is better than silver or gold.
When governments fear people, there is liberty. When the people fear the government, there is tyranny.
Better to be a strong man with a weak point, than to be a weak man without a strong point. A diamond with a flaw is more valuable than a brick without a flaw.
If you want to know how rich you really are, find out what would be left of you tomorrow if you should lose every dollar you own tonight.
Never mind what others do; do better than yourself, beat your own record from day to day, and you are a success.
That you may retain your self-respect, it is better to displease the people by doing what you know is right, than to temporarily please them by doing what you know is wrong.
The difficulties and struggles of today are but the price we must pay for the accomplishments and victories of tomorrow.
The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.
The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life.
True religion... is giving and finding one's happiness by bringing happiness into the lives of others.
We will never have real safety and security for wage earners unless we provide for safety and security for the wage payers and wage savers.
What a different world this would be if people would listen to those who know more and not merely try to get something from those who have more.
You cannot raise a man up by calling him down.
Your success depends mainly upon what you think of yourself and whether you believe in yourself.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
You cannot help small men by tearing down big men.
You cannot help the poor by destroying the rich.
You cannot lift the wage earner by pulling down the wage payer.
You cannot keep out of trouble by spending more than your income.
You cannot further the brotherhood of man by inciting class hatreds.
You cannot establish security on borrowed money.
You cannot build character and courage by taking away a man's
initiative and independence.
You cannot help men permanently by doing for them what they could and
should do for themselves.
And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican. Verily I say unto you, Whatsoever ye shall bind on earth shall be bound in heaven: and whatsoever ye shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
The greatest of mankind's criminals are those who delude themselves into thinking they have done the right thing.
As parents, we can have no joy, knowing that this government is not sufficiently lasting to ensure any thing which we may bequeath to posterity: And by a plain method of argument, as we are running the next generation into debt, we ought to do the work of it, otherwise we use them meanly and pitifully. In order to discover the line of our duty rightly, we should take our children in our hand, and fix our station a few years farther into life; that eminence will present a prospect, which a few present fears and prejudices conceal from our sight.
A positive attitude may not solve all your problems, but it will annoy enough people to make it worth the effort.
Why shouldn't truth be stranger than Fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense.
Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you did not do, than the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor and catch tradewinds in your sail.
A ship in harbour is safe, but that is not what ships are built for.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not one bit simpler.
No sense being pessimistic. It wouldn't work anyway.
If ignorance is bliss, why aren't more people happy?
Optimal health is merely the slowest possible rate at which one can die.
What you should really focus on in school is learning to work together with others on projects, in particular learn how other people approach problems and how they differ from your approach.
I never argue with fools. People might not know the difference.
Let us not forget that the value of this great system does not lie primarily in its extent or even in its efficiency. Its worth depends on the use that is made of it... For the first time in human history we have available to us the ability to communicate simultaneously with millions of our fellowmen, to furnish entertainment, instruction, widening vision of national problems and national events. An obligation rests on us to see that it is devoted to real service and to develop the material that is transmitted into that which is really worthwhile.
It was state of the art, he said. The art in this case was probably pottery.
Thy purpose firm is equal to the deed: Who does the best his circumstance allows does well, acts nobly; angels could no more.
When I use the talents God has given me, I can feel His pleasure...
Q: What is the definition of 'Crazy'?
A: Doing the same thing and expecting different results.
"-tomorrow is our permanent address"
This may not be relevant, but I always thought the plural of "spouse" was "spice".
Better, faster, cheaper - choose two
Fantasy is more important than knowledge, because knowledge is limited.
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Teach a man how to fish and you feed him for a lifetime.
It's a [darn] poor mind that can only think of one way to spell a word.
Sometimes you're the windshield, sometimes you're the bug.
The educated person is not the person who can answer the questions, but the person who can question the answers.
We as humans have an instinct for creativity and a moral instinct. A good educational system ought to nurture and encourage these aspects of human life and allow them to flourish. But of course that has problems. For one thing, it means that you will encourage challenge of authority and domination. It will encourage questioning of powerful institutions. So the way schools actually function, by and large, there's a very strong tendency which works its way out in the long run and on average, for the schools to have a kind of filtering effect. They filter out independence of thought, creativity, imagination, and in their place foster obedience and subordination.
Those who are enamored of practice without theory are like a pilot who goes into a ship without rudder or compass and never has any certainty where he [sic] is going. Practice should always be based upon a sound knowledge of theory.
Society attacks early, when the individual is helpless.
The end of democracy, and the defeat of the American Revolution will occur when government falls into the hands of the lending institutions and moneyed incorporations.
There are people who don't accept, who aren't obedient. They are weeded out, they're "behavior problems". The long-term effect of this is to reward and foster subordination; it begins in kindergarten and goes all the way through your professional or other career. If you challenge authority, you get in one or another kind of trouble. It's not 100 percent the case, and there are some areas of life where it's dramatically not the case, but on average and overwhelmingly in the outcomes, it holds.
If something comes along that you don't like, there are a few sort of four-letter words that you can use to push it out of the sphere of discussion. If you were in a bar downtown, they might have different words, but if you're an educated person what you use are complicated words like "conspiracy theory" or "Marxist" . It's a way of pushing unpleasant questions off the agenda, so that we can continue in our own happy ideology.
With disorder, I can make 'dat' order!
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
I've come to realize the only thing more dangerous than taking a big risk, or not taking any risk, is taking a risk while minimizing the precarious reality of the situation.
They say that hard work never killed anyone, but I figure, why take a chance?
Government is like a baby--an alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
The destiny of man is not measured by material computation. When great forces are on the move in the world, we learn we are spirits -- not animals." And, "There is something going on in time and space, and beyond time and space, which, whether we like it or not, spells duty.
If some among you fear taking a stand because you are afraid of reprisals from customers, clients, or even government, recognize that you are just feeding the crocodile hoping he'll eat you last.
Sometimes when I'm faced with an unbeliever, an atheist, I am tempted to invite him to the greatest gourmet dinner that one could ever serve, and when we finished eating that magnificent dinner, to ask him if he believes there's a cook.
Republicans think every day is July 4, and Democrats think every day is April 15.
Don't be humble. You're not that great.
Giving money and power to Government is like giving whiskey and car keys to teenage boys.
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
Facts are stupid things.
Where would Christianity be if Jesus got eight to fifteen years, with time off for good behavior?
Pain and disappointment are inevitable. Misery is optional.
Failure is not an option. It comes bundled with your Microsoft product.
And then the time came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.
You know the world's gone mad when the best rapper is a white guy, the best golfer is a black guy, the Swiss hold the America's Cup, France is accusing the USA of arrogance, and the Germans don't want to go to war.
Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics.
There are 10 kinds of people in the world. Those who understand binary numbers and those who don't.
He represented, indeed to a superlative degree, the great moral fallacy of our time, that collective virtue may be pursued without reference to personal behavior.
We don't have a democracy, we have an auction.
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment.
I don't suffer from Insanity... I enjoy every minute of it...
To become educated you must direct your own education. To learn you must do, and dwell on what prevents you from doing, so that you can change your knowledge base and try again. Seek out confussion in order to learn from it, and pay only as much attention to school as you have to, remembering that school and learning have little to do with each other.
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct; but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach.
Knowledge is power. [Nam et ipsa scientia potestas est].
The last temptation is the greatest treason:
To do the right deed for the wrong reason.
If a train station is where the train stops, what is a workstation?
The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.
Truth Like Football. Get kicked around much, before reaching goal.
Self-developed 'filters' that separate quality information from the ongoing information flood are a positive survival skill.
The difference between intelligence and stupidity is that intelligence has its limits.
A man with a good watch always knows what time it is, A man with two watches is never sure.
Trust in God, but tie up your camel.
Think! It ain't illegal yet.
If you can keep smiling when things go wrong, you've thought of someone to place the blame on.
To make a long story short, don't tell it.
Your best interest is secured by making the right decisions the first time.
I child-proofed my house but they are still getting in.
Today's mighty oak is just yesterday's nut that held its ground.
Rules are written for those who lack the ability to truly reason, But for those who can, the rules become nothing more than guidelines, And live their lives governed not by rules but by reason.
"Computers are like Air Conditioners - They work fine until you open Windows."
When you idiot-proof something, the world just produces better idiots.
The large print giveth, and the small print taketh away.
The old believe everything; the middle-aged suspect everything; the young know everything.
A mistake is an event, the full benefit of which has not yet been turned to your advantage.
First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
No Lawsuit Ever Fixed A Moron...
Education is the progressive discovery of our own ignorance.
The instructions said to use Windows 98 or better, so I installed Linux.
Take my advice. I'm not using it.
To see a world in a grain of sand,
and heaven in a wildflower,
hold infinity in the palm of your hand
and eternity in an hour.
Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
A lie can go round the world before the truth has got its boots on.
Boys are beyond the range of anybody's sure understanding, at least when they are between the ages of 18 months and 90 years.
If you're not on the edge, you're taking up too much space.
Reality is something that does not disappear after you cease believing in it.
The problem with the world is stupidity. Not saying there should be a capital punishment for stupidity, but why don't we just take the safety labels off of everything and let the problem solve itself?
Reject religion! Embrace Jesus Christ.
The job of an engineer is to build systems that people can trust. By this criterion, there exist few software engineers.
It is better to hear the rebuke of the wise, than for a man to hear the song of fools.
> ,''`. > UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : > `. `' > `-
Nothing adds excitement like something that is none of your business.
There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
The secret of managing is to keep the guys who hate you away from the guys who are undecided.
I think you can be an honest person and lie about any number of things.
A lot of money is tainted - It taint yours and it taint mine.
One man with a club is a hooligan. A thousand men with clubs are a regiment.
He had discovered a great law of human action, without knowing it - namely, that in order to make a man or a boy covet a thing, it is only necessary to make the thing difficult to obtain.
In mathematics you don't understand things. You just get used to them.
I intend to leave after my death a large fund for the promotion of the peace idea, but I am skeptical as to its results.
We'd all like to vote for the best man, but he's never a candidate.
It may be true that you can't fool all the people all the time, but you can fool enough of them to rule a large country.
You can have peace. Or you can have freedom. Don't ever count on having both at once.
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
First get your facts; then you can distort them at your leisure.
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
Then there was the man who drowned crossing a stream with an average depth of six inches.
The problem is just that sometimes the lowest common denominator is pretty damned low, and much too common.
"If A = B and B = C, then A = C, except where void or prohibited by law."
It's not the pace of life that concerns me, it's the sudden stop at the end.
No bastard ever won a war by dying for his country. He won it by making the other poor dumb bastard die for his country.
Think outside the box -- the box isn't our friend.
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
They may forget what you said, but they will never forget how you made them feel.
Did I misplace my ontological predicates again?
Anyone who says that there is a difference between education and entertainment knows nothing about either one.
The more corrupt the state, the more numerous the laws.
Sir, my concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God's side, for God is always right.
Whatever you are, be a good one.
Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power.
You cannot strengthen the weak by weakening the strong.
Be sure you put your feet in the right place, then stand firm.
When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.
I don't like that man. I must get to know him better.
Things may come to those who wait...but only the things left by those who hustle.
I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
You can have anything you want - if you want it badly enough. You can be anything you want to be, do anything you set out to accomplish if you hold to that desire with singleness of purpose.
I walk slowly, but I never walk backward.
Tact is the ability to describe others as they see themselves.
And in the end, it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
Everything you can imagine is real.
I chose my wife, as she did her wedding gown, for qualities that would wear well.
Keep your eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Marriage is like pi - natural, irrational, and very important.
You don't marry someone you can live with, you marry the person who you cannot live without.
Success in marriage is much more than finding the right person; it is a matter of being the right person.
A wedding anniversary is the celebration of love, trust, partnership, tolerance and tenacity. The order varies for any given year.
Married love between man and woman is bigger than oaths guarded by right of nature.
Where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage.
To keep the fire burning brightly there's one easy rule: Keep the two logs together, near enough to keep each other warm and far enough apart-about a finger's breadth-for breathing room. Good fire, good marriage, same rule.
Being asked whether it's better to marry or not, he (Socrates) replied, "Whichever you do you will repent it.
The first bond of society is marriage.
Marriage is our last, best chance to grow up.
I dreamed of a wedding of elaborate elegance, a church filled with family and friends. I asked him what kind of a wedding he wished for, he said one that would make me his wife.
Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day...
give a man a computer and he'll be on
Internet for the day and forget to eat...
Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool.
Be ever questioning. Ignorance is not bliss. It is oblivion. You don't go to heaven if you die dumb. Become better informed. Learn from other's mistakes. You could not live long enough to make them all yourself.
There Are No Stupid Questions, But There Are A Lot Of Inquisitive Idiots
Shoot for the moon. Even if you miss, you'll land among the stars.
Experiment constantly. Enlightened trial and error outperforms the planning of flawless intellects.
The person who says it cannot be done should not interrupt the person doing it.
Call me a Christian and I'll be offended. Call me Christ-like and I'll be honored.
Democracy, like Christianity, is a process, not a destination. If you think you've arrived, you haven't even begun.
Tradition is the revolution of those who have gone before. Revolution is the tradition of those yet to come.
Tradition is the living faith of the dead. Traditionalism is the dead faith of the living.
When I talk to God it's called prayer, when God talks specifically to me, it's schizophrenia.
If a million people believe a foolish thing, it is still a foolish thing.
I'm all in favor of keeping dangerous weapons out of the hands of fools, lets start with typewriters.
They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.
When you want to test the depths of a stream don't use both feet.
The best argument against democracy is a five minute talk with the average voter.
An imperfect plan executed violently is far superior to a perfect plan.
The more you own the more you have to fix!
The phenomenon of a person in deep trouble, who indignantly rejects the only thing that can help him, is observed in every field of endeavour.
Government is not reason. Government is not eloquence. It is force. And, like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
If you will not fight for right when you can easily win without bloodshed; if you will not fight when your victory will be sure and not too costly; you may come to the moment when you will have to fight with all odds against you and only a precarious chance of survival. There may be even a worse fate. You may have to fight when there is no hope of victory, because it is better to perish than to live as slaves.
Actions speak louder than words. Inaction is deafening.
He who chooses the beginning of a road chooses the place it leads to. It is the means that determine the end.
Our enemies are innovative and resourceful, and so are we. They never stop thinking about new ways to harm our country and our people, and neither do we.
Experience hath shown, that even under the best forms [of government] those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
How do you tell a communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin."
I have always wished that my computer would be as easy to use as my telephone. My wish has come true. I no longer know how to use my telephone.
In the choice between changing one's mind and proving there's no need to do so, most people get busy on the proof.
What government gives, it must first take away.
If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.
Education is the expansion of knowledge. Knowledge, like air and water should be free and readily accessible.
When at war, make sure there's an enemy.
Accuracy trumps popularity in the long run.
Being intelligent is an obligation to your creator, being wise is a gift from your creator, being smart is praise to your creator.
The honor of favored child is nothing to cherish when you're under the wing of those who would consume their own children.
If you don't read the newspaper, you are uninformed; if you do read the newspaper, you are misinformed.
The inclination to "negotiate" is absurd when the enemy's first demand is that we cease to exist.
Happiness is the best facelift.
Disillusionment is the emotional awareness that one's understanding to date lacks truth.
Scientists who deny God are like octipi who with varying degrees of aptitude employ the use of five arms while denying that they might possess additional arms.
School's two formost, surprisingly independant objectives are learning and getting good grades.
We shape our dwellings and afterward our dwellings shape us.
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
Science is the method by which one limits reality to understanding.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
Success has a great tendency to conceal and throw a veil over the evil deeds of men.
All progress has resulted from people who took unpopular positions.
Be more concerned with your character than your reputation, because your character is what you really are, while your reputation is merely what others think you are.
Reprove your friends in secret, praise them openly.
The greatest power is often simple patience.
A great pleasure in life is doing what people say you cannot do.
First, arouse in the other person an eager want. He who can do this has the whole world with him. He who cannot walks a lonely way.
I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. What matters is not what I think of him, but what he thinks of himself. Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.
If you want enemies, excel your friends; but if you want friends, let your friends excel you.
No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.
Those who have not distinguished themselves at school need not on that account be discouraged. The greatest minds do not necessarily ripen the quickest.
Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
The first thing I do in the morning is to make my bed and while I am making up my bed I am making up my mind as to what kind of a day I am going to have.
Miracles are not contrary to nature; only to what we know about nature.
The only thing worse than suffering an injustice is committing an injustice.
Forgiveness is the fragrance the violet sheds on the heel that has crushed it.
Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness - all foes to real understanding. Likewise, tolerance or broad, wholesome charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in our little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.
All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope.
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
Nothing can stop the man with the right mental attitude from achieving his goal; nothing on earth can help the man with the wrong mental attitude.
Catch on fire with enthusiasm and people will come for miles to watch you burn.
Drunkenness . . . is temporary suicide.
Beauty is one of the rare things that do not lead to doubt of God.
I shall pass through this life but once. Any good, therefore, that I can do or any kindness I can show to any fellow creature, let me do it now. Let me not defer or neglect it. For I shall never pass this way again.
Sin has many tools, but a lie is the handle which fits them all.
To know what is right and not to do it is the worst cowardice.
The greatest want of the world is the want of men,--men who will not be bought or sold; men who in their inmost souls are true and honest; men who do not fear to call sin by its right name; men whose conscience is as true to duty as the needle to the pole; men who will stand for the right though the heavens fall.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed.
A thousand words will not leave so deep an impression as one deed undone.
Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid that it will never begin.
The truth is always the strongest argument.
Most of the shadows of this life are caused by standing in one's own sunshine.
Our most intimate friend is not he to whom we show the worst, but the best of our nature.
Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of trial and suffering can the soul be strengthened, vision cleared, ambition inspired and success achieved.
Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be.
Happiness is good health and a bad memory.
He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.
You must go after your wish. As soon as you start to pursue a dream, your life wakes up and everything has meaning.
Don't walk behind me, I may not lead. Don't walk in front of me, I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.
A true conservationist is a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.
If you can't convince them, confuse them.
A Committee is a group of people who individually can do nothing, but as a group decide that nothing can be done.
Silence is not only golden; it is seldom misquoted.
The ordinary arts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.
He who wants to change the world should begin by cleaning the dishes.
A good home must be made, not bought.
If one morning I walked on top of the water across the Potomac River, the headline that afternoon would read: "President Can't Swim."
It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it. If you think about that, you'll do things differently.
The world is a dangerous place. Not because of the people who are evil; but because of the people who don't do anything about it.
We can't solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.
The difference between salad and garbage is timing.
At Microsoft, quality is job SP1
It's the job that's never started that takes the longest to finish.
A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects.
The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -- second only to American political campaigns -- the most prominent and pernicious manifestation of anti-intellectualism in our time.
Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it.Goethe
Good things come to those who wait because the great things were taken by those who didn't.
Women and cats will do as they please and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act, but a habit....The Excellent becomes the permanent.
Have nothing in your houses that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.
There is nothing worse than a brilliant image of a fuzzy concept.
You don't take a photograph, you make it.
Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the number of moments it takes our breath away.
A birth certificate shows you were born...
A death certificate shows you died...
Photographs show that you lived!
Do not be caught by the sensational in nature, as a coarse red-faced sunset, a garrulous waterfall, or a fifteen thousand foot mountain... avoid prettiness -- the word looks much like pettiness --- and there is but little difference between them.
...good and evil are important to us finally as matters of choice, and to show the reality of choice requires that time pass, time for decisions to be made and paid for.
Ethics is knowing the difference between what you have a right to do and what is right to do.
In a time of deceit telling the truth is a revolutinary act.
Always do right. This will gratify some people and astonish the rest.
Opportunity is in the can, not in the cannots.
If you're going to think anyway, you might as well think big.
A clever person solves a problem. A wise person avoids it.
Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.
In my many years I have come to a conclusion that one useless man is a shame, two is a law firm and three or more is a congress.
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason and intellect, has intended us to forego their use.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
The core of Mencken's social philosophy was relatively simple. He believed it is the nature of the human species to reject what is true but unpleasant and to embrace what is obviously false but comforting. (H.L. Mencken)
Eric Sevareid's Law: The chief source of problems is solutions.
He who asks is a fool for five minutes, but he who does not ask remains a fool forever.
Church and state are intrinsically separate - at least in a democracy. The state deals with bureaucracy which is necessarily a least common denominator endeavor. Church, in its appropriate form, deals with the individual soul and its spiritual relationship with God which is necessarily the antitheses of any bureaucracy. This natural separation of church and state does not necessitate conflict between the two. On the contrary, both church and state benefit each other when properly respected. To limit the appropriate influence of one upon the other is to destroy both.
Instead of thinking about where you are, think about where you want to be. It takes 20 years of hard work to become an overnight success.
When there are too many policemen, there can be no liberty; When there are too many soldiers, there can be no peace; When there are too many lawyers, there can be no justice.
When there are too many Democrats, there can be no democracy.
There are a thousand striking at the branches of evil to one who is striking at the root.
We have not succeeded in answering all your problems. The answers we have found only serve to raise a whole set of new questions. In some ways we feel we are as confused as ever, but we believe we are confused on a higher level and about more important things.
An Englishman and a Scotsman were discussing oats. The Englishman, with his nose in the air said "In England we feed oats to our horses, and in Scotland you feed oats to your men...", to which the Scotsman replied "...that's why in England you have such fine horses and in Scotland we have such fine men!
There is no such thing as public opinion. There is only published opinion.
The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men.
All political power comes from the barrel of a gun.
Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so.
Don't agonize. Organize.
You have enemies? Good. That means you've stood up for something, sometime in your life.
If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid.
God has entrusted me with myself.
If pigs could vote, the man with the slop bucket would be elected swineherd every time, no matter how much slaughtering he did on the side.
A verbal agreement is as good as the paper it's written on.
Truth is stranger than fiction, for we have fashioned fiction to suite ourselves.
Often people attempt to live their lives backwards; they try to have more things, or more money, in order to do more of what they want, so they will be happier. The way it actually works is the reverse. You must first be who you really are, then do what you need to do, in order to have what you want.
Genuine beginnings begin within us, even when they are brought to our attention by external opportunities.
Talent is long patience.
Christianity is how you relate to God in light of the evidence while relating to others in spite of the evidence.
That man is the richest whose pleasures are the cheapest.
We are better off not to question trials but rather to let the trials question us.
Not everything that counts can be counted, and not everything that can be counted counts.
Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.
Children will not remember you for the material things you provided, but for the feeling that you cherished them.
Failure is not fatal, but failure to change might be.
In matters of style, swim with the current; in matters of principle, stand like a rock.