"Important principles may and must be inflexible."
"A man watches his pear-tree day after day, impatient for the ripening of the fruit. Let him attempt to force the process and he may spoil both fruit and tree. But let him patiently wait, and the ripe pear at the length falls into his lap."
—Abraham Lincoln
"I am only too happy to bear the brunt of a little temporary effervescence and to be the scapegoat on which doomed mediocrities may lay the burden of their exposed incapacity"
—Lord Randolph Churchill
"Virtue is not always amiable."
—John Adams
"Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly."
—Spencer W. Kimball
"War is the stage where young people who don't know each other and don't hate each other, kill each other for old people who know and hate each other, but don't have the courage to kill each other, or themselves."
—Unknown
"The mind is not a vessel to be filled, but a fire to be lighted."
—Plutarch
"Ambition must be made to counteract ambition."
—James Madison
"A man can fool you with his mind, and his soul and his heart, but if you follow his feet, you will pretty near find out where he is going."
"If they are going to argue religion in the church instead of teaching it, no wonder you see more people at a circus that at a church."
"Nothing makes a man broad-minded like adversity."
—Will Rogers
"If Brother Brigham shall take a wrong track, and be shut out of the Kingdom of Heaven, no person will be to blame but Brother Brigham. I am the only being in Heaven, Earth, or Hell that can be blamed."
"When you are tempted to do wrong, do not stop one moment to argue, but tell Mr. Devil to walk out of your barn."
—Brigham Young
"Not all readers become leaders, but all leaders must be readers."
—Harry S Truman
"Leadership and learning are indispensable to each other."
"Do not pray for easy lives, pray to be stronger men."
"Efforts and courage are not enough without purpose and direction."
—John F. Kennedy
"There is no act, however virtuous, for which ingenuity may not find some bad motive."
"I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family and a few old friends, dining on simple bacon, and letting the world roll on as it liked, than to occupy the most splendid post, which any human power can give."
"We have spent the prime of our lives in procuring them the precious blessing of liberty. Let them spend theirs in shewing that it is the great parent of science & of virtue; and that a nation will be great in both always in proportion as it is free."
—Thomas Jefferson
"When we are planning for posterity, we ought to remember that virtue is not hereditary."
"We have it in our power to begin the world over again."
"Reputation is what men and women think of us; character is what God and angels know of us."
"It is error only, and not truth, that shrinks from inquiry."
—Thomas Paine
