Ideals are like stars: you will not succeed in touching them with your hands, but like the seafaring man on the ocean desert of waters, you choose them as your guides, and following them, you reach your destiny.
- Carl Schurz
US (German-born) general and politician (1829 - 1906)
If you want to be free, there is but one way; it is to guarantee an equally full measure of liberty to all your neighbors. There is no other.
- Carl Schurz
Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right.
- Carl Schurz
- Man is distinguished from all other creatures by the faculty of laughter.
- - Joseph Addison (1672 - 1719), The Spectator, September 26, 1712
- It is best to do things systematically, since we are only human, and disorder is our worst enemy.
- - Hesiod (~800 BC)
- While we have the gift of life, it seems to me that only tragedy is to allow part of us to die - whether it is our spirit, our creativity, or our glorious uniqueness.
- - Gilda Radner (1946 - 1989)
- People sleep peaceably in their beds at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
- George Orwell - "Achievement seems to be connected with action. Successful men and
women keep moving. They make mistakes, but they don't quit."
- Conrad Hilton
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