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2010 February 05
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"Virtue is harder to be got than a knowledge of the world;
and, if lost in a young man, is seldom recovered." |
"An honest answer is the sign of true friendship." |
"'Liar' is just as ugly a word as 'thief,' because it implies
the presence of just as ugly a sin in one case as in the other.
If a man lies under oath or procures the lie of another under oath,
if he perjures himself or suborns perjury, he is guilty under the statute law." |
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2010 February 04
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"Anything that keeps a politician humble is healthy for democracy." |
"[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones." |
"...[T]here is no more dangerous experiment than that of undertaking to be one thing before a man's face and another behind his back." |
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2010 February 03
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"The first casualty when war comes is truth." |
"There are two histories : official history, lying, and
then secret history, where you find the real causes of events." |
"The history of war is the history of powerful individuals willing to
sacrifice thousands upon thousands of other people’s lives for personal gains." |
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2010 February 02
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"Integrity is the core of our character." |
"The newspaper is of necessity something of a monopoly, and its first duty is to shun the temptations of monopoly. Its primary office is the gathering of news. At the peril of its soul it must see that the supply is not tainted. Neither in what it gives, nor in what it does not give, nor in the mode of presentation, must the unclouded face of truth suffer wrong. Comment is free but facts are sacred." |
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2010 February 01
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"A statesman who keeps his ear
permanently glued to the ground
will have neither elegance of posture
nor flexibility of movement." |
"The true measure of a man
is how he treats someone
who can do him absolutely no good." |
"At the bottom of a good deal of bravery... lurks a miserable cowardice.
Men will face powder and steel because they cannot face public opinion." |
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