choice Quotes

I love museums but I don't want to live in one.

The test of any man lies in action.

Great deeds give choice of many tales. Choose a slight tale, enrich it large, and then let wise men listen.

Men often act knowingly against their interest.

He is happy whom circumstances suit his temper; but he Is more excellent who suits his temper to any circumstance.

It is not contrary to reason to prefer the destruction of the whole world to the scratching of my finger.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

I prefer peace. But if trouble must come, let it come in my time, so that my children can live in peace.

If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace.

To say that any people are not fit for freedom, is to make poverty their choice, and to say they had rather be loaded with taxes than not.