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A man who works for the immediate present and its immediate rewards is nothing but a fool.

in every thing one must consider the end." The

The source of our suffering has been our timidity. We have been afraid to think ... Let us dare to read, think, speak, write.

If you haven't met Kenny (Young) you have not seen how the spirit of Boston can be embodied by one single man.

There's no such thing as a foreseeable future.

We learn much by tribulation, and by adversity our hearts are made better.

He was also a vociferous champion of abstinence from hard or spirituous liquors - but then no one's perfect. In

You will ever remember that all the end of study is to make you a good man and a useful citizen, Adams

When I'm reading for my own pleasure, I read things other than history or archival material. I read a lot of fiction. I'm very fond of mysteries.

Never assume that people in positions of responsibility are behaving responsibly.

Read somewhat in the English poets every day. You will find them elegant, entertaining and constructive companions through your whole life.

Bier, and I think it proper that I should try to clear the atmosphere.

Nothing ever invented can you a bigger life than a book.

mendacity." He then introduced his son to the President,

everyone. Berg and his wife, Edith, also an

Patience which I assure you requires more force of character than does action.

By reaching for the stars, Jefferson gave us all the impulse. He

We want great men who, when fortune frowns, will not be discouraged. ~Colonel Henry Knox

Holmes, who was five years younger, had seen

There is only one person who can measure your success. That person is you.

Nothing ever invented provides such sustenance, such infinite reward for time spent, as a good book.

Facts are stubborn things,

For a free, self-governing people, something more than a vague familiarity with history is essential, if we are to hold on to and sustain our freedom.

Had proven himself a leader of remarkable ability, a man not only of enterprising ideas, but with the staying power to carry them out.

Death's door. "McKINLEY IS DYING," read the large headline

All the money anyone needs is just enough to prevent one from being a burden on others.

Spotting talent is one of the essential elements of great leadership.

Nothing happens in isolation. Everything that happens has consequences. We

I'm very aware how many distractions the reader has in life today, how many good reasons there are to put the book down.

Our obligations to our country never cease but with our lives. - John Adams

tocsin of an ideological crusade, has no limits," Lippmann warned.

He held to the old guidelines: work hard, do your best, speak the truth, assume no airs, trust in God, have no fear.

Because it's of more importance to community, that innocence should be protected, than it is, that guilt should be punished.

History isn't just what happened, but what happened to whom and why and what would have been different if the cast of characters had been different.

My love is to tell a story but I like stories that evolve from character, from the nature of the individuals involved.

The great thing about the arts is that you can only learn to do it by doing it.

A man who has not better government of his tongue, no more command of his temper, is unfit for everything but children's play and the company of boys.

To this noble end the delegates had pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor.

The clock would be simple if you destroyed all the wheels . . . but it would not tell the time of day. On

Every book is a new journey. I never felt I was an expert on a subject as I embarked on a project.

The pull, the attraction of history, is in our human nature. What makes us tick? Why do we do what we do? How much is luck the deciding factor?

To write is to think, and to write well is to think well,

the, situation still

The preparations were elaborate and mammoth in scale, and Washington threw himself into the effort, demanding that not an hour be lost.

It had taken four years.

I lament the want of a liberal education. I feel the mist of ignorance to surround me - Nathanael Greene

Free speech is a restraint on government; not an incitement to the citizen.

one leg crossed nonchalantly over the other.

Honesty, sincerity, and openness, I esteem essential marks of a good mind,

I work very hard on the writing, writing and rewriting and trying to weed out the lumber.

Religion, superstition, oaths, education, laws, all give way before passions, interest, and power.

It is in Paris that the beating of Europe's heart is felt. Paris is the city of cities. - Victor Hugo

I feel that as much as I enjoy loafing, there is something higher for which to live.

You have overburdened your argument with ostentatious erudition.
Spoken by Abigail Adams

How unpardonable would it have been in you to have turned out a blockhead. How

Morality only is eternal. All the rest is balloon and bubble from the cradle to the grave.

My wife, the star I steer by.

remodeled glider to Kill Devil Hills to resume testing.

Among those who were about to stake so very much on him and his bridge, or who already had, there was not one who could honestly say he knew the man.

when you have something important to do, if there are two of you, you have one too many.

Thanks to God that he gave me stubbornness when I know I am right. ~John

I love Dickens. I love the way he sets a scene.

It is always easier to deal with things than with men, and no one can direct his life entirely as he would choose. -Wilbur Wright, 1911

Who would live in this rank old Paris if it was not for its gardens?" - John Sanderson

I would pay to do what I do if I had to.

We live, my dear soul, in an age of trial. What will be the consequence I know not. John Adams, in a letter to Abigail Adams

History is a guide to navigation in perilous times. History is who we are and why we are the way we are.

Sometimes the very struggle of getting the words down on paper does result in unexpected discoveries or clarifications.

the formality of the presidency, all

May none but honest and wise men ever rule under this roof.

Everybody wants something at the expense of everybody else and nobody thinks much of the other fellow," Truman

Recently been killed in an accident. Much that he read

Remembered "the wind usually blows." Nowhere in the talk had he said a word about the gasoline

Wright died in his room at home at 7 Hawthorn Street at 3:15 in the morning, Thursday, May 30, 1912. He was forty-five years old.

Courage is contagious. If a leader shows courage, others get the idea.

It would be the most crucial day of the entire war.

Wilbur had already made an immensely important and altogether original advance toward their goal.

Is vintage Bunau-Varilla: My only reply to such critics is that they have not the

There was no opiate like a French pillow.

The title did not make the man, of course, but it enhanced the standing of the man in the eyes of others.

Boston Latin School.

We're all what we read to a very considerable degree. So

Integrity should be preserved in all events, as essential to his happiness, through every stage of his existence.

Real success is finding your lifework in the work that you love.

Remove yourself, sir!

The experience at Suez was little help. Probably they would have been better off in the long run had there been no Suez Canal in their past.

Lord Bolingbroke, who was an eighteenth-century political philosopher, called history "philosophy taught with examples.

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It was a day and age that saw no reason why one could not learn whatever was required - learn vitally anything - by the close study of books.

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Lord, grant that I may always be right, for Thou knowest I am hard to turn,

In fact, it was the largest expeditionary force of the 18th century. The largest, most powerful force ever set forth from Britain or any nation.

Vivez joyeux" was the old saying. "Live joyfully.

Once rolling the train would travel under the code name "POTUS," for "President of the United States,

The first of all qualities of a general is courage.

...avarice and stinginess [are] not frugality

Freedom is found through the portals of our nation's libraries.

We believed in a good God, a bad Devil, and a hot Hell, and more than anything else we believed that same God did not intend man should ever fly.

a leader must look and act the part.

He worked at a plain, tall desk at which he wrote standing up or perched on a high stool,