Karl von Clausewitz Famous Quotes



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"It is not righteousness to outrage A brave man dead, not even though you hate him."
Sophocles

Life is an adventure in forgiveness.
Norman Cousins

"My final merit I refuse you, I refuse putting from me what I really am, Encompass worlds but never try to encompass me, I crowd your sleekest and best by simply looking toward you. Writing and talk do not prove me, I carry the plenum of proof in my face, With the hush of my lips I wholly confound the skeptic."
Walt Whitman

"If you cannot teach me to fly, teach me to sing."
James Barrie

Do not despise the bottom rungs in the ascent to greatness.
Publilius Syrus

Happiness and moral duty are inseparably connected.
George Washington

Trying to determine what is going on in the world by reading newspapers is like trying to tell the time by watching the second hand of a clock.
Ben Hecht

Anglo-Saxon civilization has taught the individual to protect his own rights American civilization will teach him to respect the rights of others.
William Jennings Bryan

"And all the winds go sighing, For sweet things dying."
Marcel Proust

"Don't you wish there were a knob on the TV to turn up the intelligence There's one marked 'Brightness,' but it doesn't work."
Gallagher