John Cogley Commonweal Famous Quotes



"Tolerance implies a respect for another person, not because he is wrong or even because he is right, but because he is human."


John Cogley Commonweal Quotations






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"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for kindness."
Seneca

"There is a homely old adage which runs Speak softly and carry a big stick you will go far. If the American nation will speak softly, and yet build and keep at a pitch of the highest training a thoroughly efficient navy, the Monroe Doctrine will go far."
Theodore Roosevelt

Take a second look... It costs you nothing.
Chinese Proverb

The beginning is always today.
Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The cat could very well be man's best friend but would never stoop to admitting it.
Doug Larson

"To strive with an equal is dangerous with a superior, mad with an inferior, degrading."
Lucius Annaeus Seneca

Making a success of the job at hand is the best step toward the kind you want.
Bernard Mannes Baruch

No really great man ever thought himself so.
William Hazlitt

"Life comes before literature, as the material always comes before the work. The hills are full of marble before the world blooms with statues."
Phillips Brooks

"Government is not reason, it is not eloquence, it is force like fire, a troublesome servant and a fearful master. Never for a moment should it be left to irresponsible action."
George Washington