"Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight."

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"Forethought we may have, undoubtedly, but not foresight."

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"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."

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"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

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Thomas Jefferson, American President

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"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

Fran Lebowitz, American Journalist

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"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

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"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

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"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

Rabindranath Tagore, Indian Poet

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Winston Churchill, English Statesman

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"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

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"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths."

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"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."

Abraham Lincoln, American Politician

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"When soldiers have been baptized in the fire of a battle-field, they have all one rank in my eyes."

"France has more need of me than I have need of France."

"A celebrated people lose dignity upon a closer view."

"War is the business of barbarians."

"Never ascribe to malice that which is adequately explained by incompetence."

"Take time to deliberate, but when the time for action has arrived, stop thinking and go in."

"He who knows how to flatter also knows how to slander."

"In politics... never retreat, never retract... never admit a mistake."

"The act of policing is, in order to punish less often, to punish more severely."

"A leader is a dealer in hope."

Exlpore more Wisdom quotes

"We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country."

"When you leave New York, you are astonished at how clean the rest of the world is. Clean is not enough."

"To live anywhere in the world today and be against equality because of race or color is like living in Alaska and being against snow."

"Experience teaches us that it is much easier to prevent an enemy from posting themselves than it is to dislodge them after they have got possession."

"The last proceeding of reason is to recognize that there is an infinity of things which are beyond it. There is nothing so conformable to reason as this disavowal of reason."

"Every difficulty slurred over will be a ghost to disturb your repose later on."

"I always avoid prophesying beforehand, because it is a much better policy to prophesy after the event has already taken place."

"The only real progress lies in learning to be wrong all alone."

"Rivers, ponds, lakes and streams - they all have different names, but they all contain water. Just as religions do - they all contain truths."

"It has been my experience that folks who have no vices have very few virtues."