wisdom Quotes

We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.

Democracy cannot succeed unless those who express their choice are prepared to choose wisely. The real safeguard of democracy, therefore, is education.

A nation that destroys its soils destroys itself. Forests are the lungs of our land, purifying the air and giving fresh strength to our people.

I am neither bitter nor cynical but I do wish there was less immaturity in political thinking.

We have now sunk to a depth at which restatement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.

Men can only be happy when they do not assume that the object of life is happiness.

Each generation imagines itself to be more intelligent than the one that went before it, and wiser than the one that comes after it.

Happiness can exist only in acceptance.

Common sense is the genius of humanity.

The aim of a joke is not to degrade the human being, but to remind him that he is already degraded.