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Quotes by Statesman

"Predominant opinions are generally the opinions of the generation that is vanishing."

"There is moderation even in excess."

"But if I am wrong in thinking the human soul immortal, I am glad to be wrong; nor will I allow the mistake which gives me so much pleasure to be wrested from me as long as I live."

"What one has one ought to use and whatever he does he should do with all his might."

"Until you go and grow MADÍ with and in your true passion and purpose, you cannot enter the realm of meteority which is enemical to mediocrity."

"Every challenge is a chance to become a champion."


"Democratic power is the only voice most citizens have."


"A kingdom founded on injustice never lasts."

"I never admired another's fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own."

"Books, in all their variety, offer the human intellect the means whereby civilization may be carried triumphantly forward."

"When you empower your people, your business will grow."

"Any man may make a mistake none but a fool will stick to it. Second thoughts are best as the proverb says."

"Some people today are wandering generalities instead of meaningful specifics because they have failed to discover and mine the wealth of potentials in them."

"There is also a tradition about Socrates. He liked walking, it is recorded, until a late hour of the evening, and when someone asked him why he did this he said he was trying to work up an appetite for his dinner."

"We are bound by the law, so that we may be free."

"Never injure a friend, even in jest."

"Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few."

"Before and after you do your best, know it that you must rely on God. Your best - no matter how great - is nothing if you minus God from the equation."


"One can win only if he believes himself to be a winner."

"Never, never, never give in!"

"Socialism needs to pull down wealth; liberalism seeks to raise up poverty. Socialism would destroy private interests, Liberalism would preserve [them] ... by reconciling them with public right. Socialism would kill enterprise; Liberalism would rescue enterprise from the trammels of privilege and preference. Socialism assails the preeminence of the individual; Liberalism seeks ... to build up a minimum standard for the mass. Socialism exalts the rule; Liberalism exalts the man. Socialism attacks capitalism; Liberalism attacks monopoly."

"You can become the greatest personality in your community by developing the sagacity of humility, teachability, prosperity-mentality and accountability."


"It is better, of course, to know useless things than to know nothing."

"The future though imminent is obscure."

"I shall always consider the best guesser the best prophet."

"Youth is the trustee of prosperity."

"You are a special breed that has never been. You are the highest stratum of the society. You belong to a class that is beyond compare. You are full of superiority that gives especial worth which is meritoriously near the standard or model and eminently good of its kind. You are an expression of distinction, the perfection of superbness and effulgence of class. You are meant for the highest crown of success, created for affecting lives, configured for goodness, packaged to be set apart and set great store by, and ordained to be widely known and honored for greater achievement. You are a rare breed with divine and inherent ability to reign, rule, dominate and prosper in every way of life."
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