Carl Schurz Famous Quotes
"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."
"Our country, right or wrong. When right, to be kept right, when wrong to be put right."
"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 Quotations
"Whatever one man is capable of conceiving, other men will be able to achieve."
Jules Verne
"Live all you can - it's a mistake not to. It doesn't so much matter what you do in particular, so long as you have your life. If you haven't had that, what have you had"
Henry James
Be honorable yourself if you wish to associate with honorable people.
Welsh Proverb
"The more laws and order are made prominent, The more thieves and robbers there will be."
Lao Tzu
"Eccentricity is not, as dull people would have us believe, a form of madness. It is often a kind of innocent pride, and the man of genius and the aristocrat are frequently regarded as eccentrics because genius and aristocrat are entirely unafraid of and uninfluenced by the opinions and vagaries of the crowd."
Edith Sitwell
"Mathematics, rightly viewed, posses not only truth, but supreme beauty - a beauty cold and austere, like that of sculpture."
Bertrand Russell
"Last night's homer was Willie Stargell's 399th career home run, leaving him one shy of 500."
Jerry Coleman
Friendship based solely upon gratitude is like a photograph with time it fades.
Carmen Sylva
"And when the future hinges on the next words that are said, Don't let logic interfere, believe your heart instead."
Philip Robinson
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being.
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe